Peptide Publications Archive
Engineered Lasso Peptides
Burk Lab
A major barrier to durable responses with PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors is the activation of immunosuppressive TGF-β within the tumor microenvironment. This immunosuppression is driven in …
Spike Peptide Amyloids
Legleiter Lab
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein fragments are known to form amyloid fibrils, but far less is understood about the prefibrillar states that emerge along the way, or …
HDAC-Mediated Lactylation
Goldberg Lab
Lysine lactylation, Kla, has emerged as a post-translational modification, PTM, directly linking glycolytic metabolism to protein regulation. While earlier models invoked lactyl-CoA–dependent transfer or non-enzymatic …
Targeted Conjugates
Zeglis Lab
For two decades, immunoconjugates have been a mainstay of targeted oncology, from antibody–drug conjugates to radioimmunotherapy probes. The clinical challenge has never been the underlying …
Ultrafast Peptide Cyclization
Sun Lab
Cyclic peptides occupy a privileged niche in chemical biology. Their constrained conformations reduce entropic penalties upon binding, impart proteolytic stability, and frequently enable access to …
Cysteine Umpolung
Wang Lab
A longstanding challenge in peptide chemistry has been the restricted reactivity of canonical amino acids, which limits late-stage functionalization strategies. Most side chains are inherently …
Azapeptoid Collagen
Del Valle Lab
Collagen’s mechanical grace comes from a deceptively simple code: repeating Gly-Xaa-Yaa triplets that assemble into three left-handed PPII chains winding into a right-handed triple helix. …
Coagulation Trigger
Ruvo Lab
Hemostasis begins with a handshake. When vascular damage exposes tissue factor, TF, to the bloodstream, factor VII, FVII, latches on, instantly engaging the extrinsic pathway …
Rewiring the Protein Backbone
Schepartz Lab
Backbone editing offers a powerful way to expand protein function: by introducing β, γ, or δ linkages, researchers can strengthen folds against proteolysis, reshape ligand …
Allosteric Turns
Sampaio-Dias Lab
Disorders of the central nervous system linked to dysregulation of dopamine D2 receptors — including depression, drug addiction, Parkinson’s disease, and movement disorders — …
Stapled Sheets
Del Valle Lab
The stabilization of β-sheet structures has long been a challenge in peptide design, despite their central role in mediating protein–protein interactions, PPIs. While side-chain …
Degrading Light
Lou Lab
Targeted protein degradation has rapidly matured into a transformative drug discovery approach, offering ways to dismantle proteins once deemed undruggable. While classical proteolysis-targeting chimeras, PROTACs, …
Blocking Metastasis
Kennedy Lab
Metastasis remains the leading cause of cancer mortality, and one driver of this process is the actin cytoskeleton remodeling mediated by WASF3, a protein strongly …
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …