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Mammalian display screening of diverse cystine-dense peptides for difficult to drug targets.

ABSTRACT: Protein:protein interactions are among the most difficult to treat molecular mechanisms of disease pathology. Cystine-dense peptides have the potential to disrupt such interactions, and are used in drug-like roles by every clade of life, but their study has been hampered by a reputation for being difficult to produce, owing to their complex disulfide connectivity. Here we describe a platform for identifying target-binding cystine-dense peptides using mammalian surface display, capable of interrogating high quality and diverse scaffold libraries with verifiable folding and stability. We demonstrate the platform's capabilities by identifying a cystine-dense peptide capable of inhibiting the YAP:TEAD interaction at the heart of the oncogenic Hippo pathway, and possessing the potency and stability necessary for consideration as a drug development candidate. This platform provides the opportunity to screen cystine-dense peptides with drug-like qualities against targets that are implicated for the treatment of diseases, but are poorly suited for conventional approaches.

SUBMITTER: Crook ZR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5740061 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mammalian display screening of diverse cystine-dense peptides for difficult to drug targets.

Crook Zachary R ZR Sevilla Gregory P GP Friend Della D Brusniak Mi-Youn MY Bandaranayake Ashok D AD Clarke Midori M Gewe Mesfin M Mhyre Andrew J AJ Baker David D Strong Roland K RK Bradley Philip P Olson James M JM

Nature communications 20171221 1

Protein:protein interactions are among the most difficult to treat molecular mechanisms of disease pathology. Cystine-dense peptides have the potential to disrupt such interactions, and are used in drug-like roles by every clade of life, but their study has been hampered by a reputation for being difficult to produce, owing to their complex disulfide connectivity. Here we describe a platform for identifying target-binding cystine-dense peptides using mammalian surface display, capable of interro ...[more]

PMID: 29269835

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Mammalian display screening of diverse cystine-dense peptides for difficult to drug targets.

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Mammalian display screening of diverse cystine-dense peptides for difficult to drug targets.

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