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Christian Heinis
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Cyclic Peptides for Drug Development
Christian Heinis, Xinjian Ji, Alexander Lund Nielsen
Cyclic peptides combine a number of favorable properties that make them attractive for drug development. Today, more than 40 therapeutics based on cyclic peptides are in use, and new, powerful technologies for their development suggest that this number cou ...
2024Solid-phase peptide synthesis in 384-well plates
Christian Heinis, Edward Jeffrey Will, Anne Sofie Luise Zarda, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Mischa Schüttel, Gontran Sangouard
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 ...
Hoboken2024Large Libraries of Structurally Diverse Macrocycles Suitable for Membrane Permeation
Christian Heinis, Xinjian Ji, Edward Jeffrey Will, Anne Sofie Luise Zarda, Alessandro Angelini, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Manuel Leonardo Merz, Mischa Schüttel, Ganesh Kumar Mothukuri, Zsolt Bognár
Macrocycles offer an attractive format for drug development due to their good binding properties and potential to cross cell membranes. To efficiently identify macrocyclic ligands for new targets, methods for the synthesis and screening of large combinator ...
Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024Motifs for making tricycles
Tricyclic peptides have reduced conformational flexibility, making them well suited for ligand development. Researchers have now generated large combinatorial libraries of tricyclic peptides using a disulfide-directing motif. Screening these libraries disc ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023High-affinity peptides developed against calprotectin and their application as synthetic ligands in diagnostic assays
Christian Heinis, Florence Pojer, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Lluc Farrera Soler, Cristina Diaz Perlas
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. C ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Peptide-Hypervalent Iodine Reagent Chimeras: Enabling Peptide Functionalization and Macrocyclization
Jérôme Waser, Christian Heinis, Xinjian Ji, Xingyu Liu
Herein, we report a novel strategy for the modification of peptides based on the introduction of highly reactive hypervalent iodine reagents-ethynylbenziodoxolones (EBXs)-onto peptides. These peptide-EBXs can be readily accessed, by both solution- and soli ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023High-Density Immobilization of TCEP on Silica Beads for Efficient Disulfide Reduction and Thiol Alkylation in Peptides
Tris-(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP) linked to agarose beads is widely used for reducing disulfide bridges in proteins and peptides. The immobilization of TCEP on beads allows efficient removal after reduction to prevent its reaction with alkylating reage ...
Weinheim2023Development of cyclic peptides that can be administered orally to inhibit disease targets
Christian Heinis, Manuel Leonardo Merz
Cyclic peptides can bind challenging disease targets, but their oral application is hindered by digestion and absorption issues. We developed a versatile method for the synthesis and functional screening of vast numbers of synthetic cyclic peptides and ide ...
Berlin2023Solid-phase peptide synthesis on disulfide-linker resin followed by reductive release affords pure thiol-functionalized peptides
Christian Heinis, Peter Matei Frisius Pânzar, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Manuel Leonardo Merz, Ganesh Kumar Mothukuri, Zsolt Bognár
Thiol groups are suitable handles for site-selectively modifying, immobilizing or cyclizing individual peptides or entire peptide libraries. A limiting step in producing the thiol-functionalized peptides is the chromatographic purification, which is partic ...
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022