Peptide Publications Archive

Barrier Crossing

Barrier Crossing

Pires Lab

Tuberculosis, TB, remains one of the most pressing global health threats, with more than ten million cases reported in 2022. Once thought to be in …

Peptide Galanin Binding

Peptide Galanin Binding

Patnaik Lab

In a landmark study, published in ACS Chemical Biology, researchers from the Samarjit Patnaik group at the National Institutes of Health, report the development …

Protein Phosphorylation

Protein Phosphorylation

Köhn Lab

Professor Maja Köhn took the stage at the 29th American Peptide Symposium in San Diego, her presentation, "Targeting Phosphatases with Peptides and Phosphomimetics," offered a …

Conformational Equilibrium

Conformational Equilibrium

Serianni Lab

The conformational behavior of alanine dipeptide, Ac-L-Ala-NHMe, 1, has long made it a model compound in molecular simulation studies. However, despite numerous …

Proline Scanning

Proline Scanning

Wu Lab

Disulfide-rich peptides, DRPs, are renowned for their stability and therapeutic promise, yet their natural structures offer limited flexibility for evolution or functional adaptation. In an …

Shaping Peptide Assemblies

Shaping Peptide Assemblies

Jiang Lab

Peptides capable of folding into defined secondary structures serve as promising modular building blocks for supramolecular materials. However, conventional approaches to peptide-based self-assembly are often …

Delivery of Peptide-LYTAC

Delivery of Peptide-LYTAC

Luan Lab

While immune checkpoint blockade, ICB, therapies have transformed cancer immunotherapy, tumors such as melanoma frequently exploit the CD47-SIRPα axis to evade macrophage-mediated clearance. Antibody-based CD47 …

Peptide Anti Obesity 2.0

Peptide Anti Obesity 2.0

David Lab

Obesity is a leading contributor to global disease burden and a primary risk factor for type 2 diabetes, yet current treatments often lack specificity and …

Intracellular Targeting

Intracellular Targeting

Futaki Lab

The delivery of biomacromolecules directly into the cytosol remains a central challenge in therapeutic peptide science. Coacervate-based systems offer a promising platform, yet many are …

Rational Design

Rational Design

Gellman Lab

The rational construction of stable hetero-oligomeric protein complexes with defined subunit composition is a central challenge in molecular design. In this study, published in the

Quorum Sensing Redux

Quorum Sensing Redux

Tal-Gan Lab

Streptococcus constellatus, a member of the Streptococcus anginosus group, SAG, is an opportunistic pathogen commonly found in the human oral and gastrointestinal microbiota. While …

Macrocyclic Peptide Antibiotics

Macrocyclic Peptide Antibiotics

van der Donk Lab

Ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides, RiPPs, represent one of the most structurally diverse classes of natural products, yet many RiPP families remain biosynthetically uncharacterized...

Conjugation Chemistry

Conjugation Chemistry

Kwon Lab

Traumatic brain injury, TBI, remains a profound and unresolved clinical challenge, responsible for long-term disability in both civilian and military populations. The lack of effective …

Grafted Coiled Coils

Grafted Coiled Coils

Andrew J. Lab

Protein–protein interactions, PPIs, are fundamental to cellular regulation, yet targeting them therapeutically remains challenging due to their extensive, shallow interfaces. Peptides offer an attractive solution, …

Efficient siRNA Delivery

Efficient siRNA Delivery

Anders Lab

In this collaborative study, published in Bioconjugate Chemistry by researchers from the Dahlén group at Astra-Zeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Andaloussi team at the Karolinska …

Potent Antifungal Lipopeptide

Potent Antifungal Lipopeptide

Süssmuth Lab

In this study, researchers from the Süssmuth group at the Technische Universität Berlin, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, elucidated the …

Oxidative Peptide Coupling

Oxidative Peptide Coupling

Proulx Lab

This study demonstrates that a key determinant of this reactivity is the choice of solvent. By shifting from aqueous buffer to a mixed organic solvent …

Molecular Scaffolds

Molecular Scaffolds

Craik Lab

This comprehensive review from the labs of David Craik and Lara Malins at Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein …

Quorum Sensing

Quorum Sensing

Tal-Gan Lab

Streptococcus cristatus, a commensal member of the oral microbiota and recently reclassified from Streptococcus oligofermentans, has emerged as a promising candidate in the …

From Hydrogel to Crystal

From Hydrogel to Crystal

Schneider Lab

Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers in the lab of Dr. Joel P. Schneider at NIH, have unveiled a groundbreaking …

Sequence Architecture

Sequence Architecture

Woolfson Lab

The Woolfson Lab continues to break new ground in de novo protein design with the successful creation of mixed-charge A3B3 heterohexameric α-helical …

Versatile Precursors

Versatile Precursors

Mitchell Lab

Cyclopropane-containing amino acids, prized for their conformational rigidity and stability, are of increasing interest in therapeutic peptide development and antimicrobial drug discovery. A recent study …

Ubiquitin Azapeptide Esters

Ubiquitin Azapeptide Esters

Liu Lab

Published as an ASAP article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from the Wenshe Liu Lab at Texas A&M, currenly our …

Capturing the Uncatchable

Capturing the Uncatchable

Arora Lab

In a major step forward, researchers in the Arora Group at the New York University, have now developed a rationally designed proteomimetic receptor capable of …