Publications by Sevan Mleh Habeshian

Solid-phase peptide synthesis in 384-well plates

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

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

De novo development of small cyclic peptides that are orally bioavailable

Christian Heinis, Xinjian Ji, Bo Li, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Manuel Leonardo Merz, Sevan Mleh Habeshian

Cyclic peptides can bind challenging disease targets with high affinity and specificity, offering enormous opportunities for addressing unmet medical needs. However, as with biological drugs, most cyclic peptides cannot be applied orally because they are r ...

2023

Synthesis and direct assay of large macrocycle diversities by combinatorial late-stage modification at picomole scale

Gerardo Turcatti, Christian Heinis, Julien Bortoli Chapalay, Jonathan Patrice Vesin, Alessandro Angelini, Manuel Leonardo Merz, Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Mischa Schüttel, Ganesh Kumar Mothukuri, Gontran Sangouard

Macrocycles have excellent potential as therapeutics due to their ability to bind challenging targets. However, generating macrocycles against new targets is hindered by a lack of large macrocycle libraries for high-throughput screening. To overcome this, ...

Nature Research2022

Cyclative Release Strategy to Obtain Pure Cyclic Peptides Directly from the Solid Phase

Christian Heinis, Manuel Leonardo Merz, Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Ganesh Ashokrao Sable

The synthesis of large numbers of cyclic peptides-required, for example, in screens for drug development-is currently limited by the need of chromatographic purification of individual peptides. Herein, we have developed a strategy in which cyclic peptides ...

2022

Methods for the generation of large combinatorial macrocycle libraries

Sevan Mleh Habeshian

Macrocycles are an attractive class of molecules due to their good binding properties and yet rather small size that allows, in many cases, crossing membranes to reach intracellular targets. In comparison to classical small molecule drugs, macrocycles are ...

EPFL2021

Novel irreversible covalent BTK inhibitors discovered using DNA-encoded chemistry

Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Ying Zhang

Libraries of DNA-Encoded small molecules created using combinatorial chemistry and synthetic oligonucleotides are being applied to drug discovery projects across the pharmaceutical industry. The majority of reported projects describe the discovery of rever ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Agonists and Antagonists of Protease-Activated Receptor 2 Discovered within a DNA-Encoded Chemical Library Using Mutational Stabilization of the Target

Jiahuan Zhang, Ye Zhang, Sevan Mleh Habeshian

2018