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Methods for high-throughput synthesis and screening of peptide libraries

Macrocycles provide an attractive modality for drug development but the identification of ligands to targets of interest is hindered by the lack of large macrocyclic compound libraries for high-throughput screening. A strategy to efficiently synthesize lar ...

EPFL2024

Solid-phase peptide synthesis in 384-well plates

Christian Heinis, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Mischa Schüttel, Gontran Sangouard, Edward Jeffrey Will, Anne Sofie Luise Zarda

Newer solid-phase peptide synthesis and release strategies enable the production of short peptides with high purity, allowing direct screening for desired bioactivity without prior chromatographic purification. However, the maximum number of peptides that ...

2024

High-affinity peptides developed against calprotectin and their application as synthetic ligands in diagnostic assays

Christian Heinis, Florence Pojer, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Cristina Diaz Perlas, Lluc Farrera Soler

A peptide was developed that binds to calprotectin, a marker of major inflammatory disorders, and found to be suited for diagnostic tests. The use of synthetic peptides in assays is of great interest due to their high precision, robustness and low price. ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Selective Borohydride Oxidation Reaction on Nickel Catalyst with Anion and Cation Exchange Ionomer for High-Performance Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells

Andreas Züttel, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Heena Yang, Thi Ha My Pham, Mo Li, Youngdon Ko

Direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs) operate with liquid H2O2 and a high-energy-density NaBH4 solution. A facile, direct synthesis method using a non-noble nickel catalyst for the DBFC anode is shown. The complex anode reaction with an anion-exchange iono ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Ethynylation of Cysteine Residues: From Peptides to Proteins in Vitro and in Living Cells

Jérôme Waser, Romain Gaëtan Tessier, Javier De Ceballos Cerrajeria, Raj Kumar Nandi

Current approaches to introduce terminal alkynes for bioorthogonal reactions into biomolecules still present limitations in terms of either reactivity, selectivity, or adduct stability. We present a method for the ethynylation of cysteine residues based on ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Synthetic Studies toward Amanita Phalloides Toxins

Philipp Georg Werner Seeberger

Amatoxins are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified bicyclic octapeptides biosynthesized by the deadly basidiomycete fungus Amanita phalloides. Amongst this group, alpha-amanitin is the most widely known toxin and is currently under inv ...

EPFL2020

Shape Engineering of Metal-Organic Frameworks via MOF@Polymer Composite Fabrication

Bardiya Valizadeh

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a fascinating class of porous materials that have become the subject of research owing to their unique characteristics such as high surface areas, low densities, and structural tunability. Recently, the research has been ...

EPFL2020

Development of cyclic peptide inhibitors of coagulation factor XII and matrix metalloproteinase 2

Jonas Alfred Karl Wilbs

Peptides represent a promising molecular class for drug development. They combine several strengths of small molecules (e.g. efficient tissue diffusion, low immunogenicity and access to chemical synthesis) and key properties of biologics such as monoclonal ...

EPFL2018

Decarboxylative Alkynylation and Cyanation of Carboxylic Acids using Photoredox Catalysis and Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Jérôme Waser, Franck Le Vaillant

Alkynes and nitriles are important functional groups that serve as versatile building blocks in organic synthesis and find applications in material and medicinal sciences. A convenient and straightforward access to both classes of compounds under mild cond ...

2017

Direct amidation of esters with nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Esters are one of the most common functional groups in natural and synthetic products, and the one-step conversion of the ester group into other functional groups is an attractive strategy in organic synthesis. Direct amidation of esters is particularly ap ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

New methods for developing (bi)cyclic peptides by phage display

Camille Villequey

Cyclic peptide ligands are a promising molecular format for the development of therapeutics. They combine some of the advantages of large protein therapeutics (high affinity and specificity) and of small molecule drugs (accessibility to chemical synthesis ...

EPFL2017

Peptide-Polymer Conjugates for Therapeutic Applications

Ana Maria Raduta

Over the last ten years the attention of the pharmaceutical industry has shifted away from small molecules to focus on new biologics such as antibodies, proteins and therapeutic peptides. Herein, peptides have emerged as a particularly interesting category ...

EPFL2015

Access to long-chain polyketides by double-elongation reactions : the AB and CD spiroacetals of the spongistatins

Due to the spongistatins' fascinating and complex molecular architectures, and their important biological activities, these marine macrolides have been the subject of intensive efforts directed towards their total synthesis. As an attractive alternative to ...

EPFL2010

Diversity-oriented synthesis of furo[3,2-f]chromanes with antimycobacterial activity

Stewart Cole

We previously reported the synthesis and the antimycobacterial activity of 4-(7,7-dimethyl-7H-furo[3,2-f]chromen-2-yl)pyridine. From this result, we sought to design simple synthetic accesses to related structures allowing the preparation of a diverse set ...

2009

Nouvelles approches synthétiques de prodrogues de cyclosporine A et d'analogues antiviraux

Jérémy Bérard

The cyclosporins comprise a family of cyclic 11-peptides containing seven N-methylated, hydrophobic amino acids. Cyclosporine A (CsA) representing the major member of this family is widely used as immunosuppressive agent in organ transplantations. The biol ...

EPFL2008

Solution behavior of peptide and peptide-hybrid materials

Harald Nuhn

Peptide based and peptide hybrid materials represent two interesting and challenging classes of biomaterials. Both classes consist of and contain, respectively, one or more polypeptide blocks, endowing the resulting polymers with enhanced self-assembly pro ...

EPFL2008

Peptide/protein – polymer conjugates: synthetic strategies and design concepts

Harm-Anton Klok

This feature article provides a compilation of tools available for preparing well-defined peptide/protein–polymer conjugates, which are defined as hybrid constructs combining (i) a defined number of peptide/protein segments with uniform chain lengths and d ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2008

"Switch peptides" : conception et synthèse d'inhibiteurs ou destructeurs potentiels de fibrilles amyloïdes

Lydiane Jeanine Saucède

Despite of considerable progress in the research at the interface of Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, neurodegenerative diseases affect more and more seriously our ageing population and remain a real therapeutic challenge for researcher. Nevertheless, adva ...

EPFL2006