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Temperateness (virology)

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Phage selection of bicyclic peptides

Christian Heinis, Inmaculada Rentero Rebollo

Bicyclic peptides are small, constrained peptides that can bind with high affinity and selectivity to protein targets. Their small size provides a number of advantages over larger protein-based ligands, including access to chemical synthesis, better tissue ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2013

Contractile Tail Machines of Bacteriophages

Petr Leiman

Bacteriophages with contractile tails epitomize the concepts of "virus" and "phage" for many because the tails of these phages undergo a large conformational change - resembling the action of a syringe - upon the attachment to the host cell. The contractil ...

2012

Screening of large molecule diversities by phage display

Christian Heinis, Inmaculada Rentero Rebollo

Molecules with tailored binding specificities are needed for many purposes such as the development of therapeutics, the detection and purification of biomolecules or in chemical biology for the study and manipulation of biological systems. With phage displ ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2012

Measuring net protease activities in biological samples using selective peptidic inhibitors

Christian Heinis, Alessandro Angelini, Philippe Diderich, Lisa Pollaro, Silvia Bellotto, Hermann A. Wegner

The measurement of activities from individual proteases in biological samples is difficult because of the numerous proteases, their overlapping activities, and the lack of specific substrates. We applied selective protease inhibitors based on bicyclic pept ...

2012

From Phage Display to Dendrimer Display: Insights into Multivalent Binding

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings

Phage display is widely used for the selection of target-specific peptide sequences. Presentation of phage peptides on a multivalent platform can be used to (partially) restore the binding affinity. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the effects of va ...

American Chemical Society2011

Post-translational modification of genetically encoded polypeptide libraries

Christian Heinis, Alessandro Angelini

The genetic encoding of polypeptides with biological display systems enables the facile generation and screening of very large combinatorial libraries of molecules. By post-translationally modifying the encoded polypeptides, chemically and structurally mor ...

Elsevier2011

Biofunctional polymer nanoparticles for intra-articular targeting and retention in cartilage

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Conlin O'Neil, Dominique André Rothenfluh

The extracellular matrix of dense, avascular tissues presents a barrier to entry for polymer-based therapeutics, such as drugs encapsulated within polymeric particles. Here, we present an approach by which polymer nanoparticles, suffciently small to enter ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

Selections for enzymatic catalysts

Christian Heinis, Dario Neri

A review on various methods for the selection of catalysts using phage display. The different approaches (selection of catalysts by binding and direct selections for catalytic activity) are presented. Metallo-beta -lactamase BCII from Bacillus cereus was u ...

CRC Press2005

Engineering a thermostable human prolyl endopeptidase for antibody-directed enzyme prodrug therapy

Christian Heinis, Dario Neri

We present a new antibody-directed enzyme prodrug therapy strategy (ADEPT) based on a post-proline cleaving endopeptidase and prodrugs, in which cytotoxic moieties are linked to a proline-contg. peptide. Human prolyl endopeptidase was expressed in Escheric ...

2004

Exploring the Capabilities of Nucleic Acid Polymerases by Use of Directed Evolution

Kai Johnsson, Petra Tafelmeyer

A review. Directed evolution consists of repetitive cycles of random mutagenesis of the protein/peptide sequence followed by screening or selection of candidates with desired properties. Many different approaches are used to introduce mutations into a gene ...

Wiley2004

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