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ACS Chem Biol
December 2024
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Tudor domains are histone readers that can recognize various methylation marks on lysine and arginine. This recognition event plays a key role in the recruitment of other epigenetic effectors and the control of gene accessibility. The Tudor-containing protein family contains 42 members, many of which are involved in the development and progression of various diseases, especially cancer.
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December 2024
Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Peptoids (N-substituted glycines) are a class of sequence-defined synthetic peptidomimetic polymers with applications including drug delivery, catalysis, and biomimicry. Classical molecular simulations have been used to predict and understand the conformational dynamics of single chains and their self-assembly into morphologies including sheets, tubes, spheres, and fibrils. The CGenFF-NTOID model based on the CHARMM General Force Field has demonstrated success in accurate all-atom molecular modeling of peptoid structure and thermodynamics.
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December 2024
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University (DSU), Bengaluru 560 111, Karnataka, India; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, R R College of Pharmacy, Bengaluru 560 090, Karnataka, India. Electronic address:
The landscape of cancer treatment has been transformed by the emergence of immunotherapy, especially through the use of antibodies that target the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway. Recently, there has been a notable increase in interest surrounding immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy. While antibody-based approaches have drawbacks like high costs and prolonged activity, the approval of monoclonal antibodies such as pembrolizumab and nivolumab has paved the way for a range of alternative therapies, including peptides, peptidomimetics, and small-molecule inhibitors.
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December 2024
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
β-Amino acids serve as crucial building blocks for a broad range of biologically active molecules and peptides with potential as peptidomimetics. While numerous methods have been developed for the synthesis of β-amino acids, most of them require multistep preparation of specific reagents and substrates, which limits their synthetic practicality. In this regard, a homologative transformation of abundant and readily available α-amino acids would be an attractive approach for β-amino acid synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeptidomimetic design for non-canonical interfaces is less well established than for α-helix and β-strand mediated protein-protein interactions. Using the TACC3/Aurora-A kinase interaction as a model, we developed a series of constrained TACC3 peptide variants with 10-fold increased binding potencies ( ) towards Aurora-A in comparison to the parent peptide. High-affinity is achieved in part by restricting the accessible conformational ensemble of the peptide leading to a more favourable entropy of binding.
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