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The future of peptide‐based drugs

DJ Craik, DP Fairlie, S Liras… - Chemical biology & drug …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Another predicted outcome of ‘omics’ studies in humans is a greater emphasis in the
future on personalized medicines based on identification of an individual’s genetic make-up. …

On-resin N-methylation of cyclic peptides for discovery of orally bioavailable scaffolds

…, AS Kalgutkar, JN Bauman, Y Zhang, S Liras… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
… Hepworth and S. Liras of Pfizer) in chemical space that become increasingly sparse with
increasing molecular mass. We postulate that many of these islands are populated with …

Discovery of a Novel Class of Phosphodiesterase 10A Inhibitors and Identification of Clinical Candidate 2-[4-(1-Methyl-4-pyridin-4-yl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)-phenoxymethyl] …

…, CJ Schmidt, JA Suiciak, S Liras - Journal of medicinal …, 2009 - ACS Publications
By utilizing structure-based drug design (SBDD) knowledge, a novel class of phosphodiesterase
(PDE) 10A inhibitors was identified. The structure-based drug design efforts identified a …

Enantioselective intramolecular cyclopropanations of allylic and homoallylic diazoacetates and diazoacetamides using chiral dirhodium (II) carboxamide catalysts

…, AV Kalinin, MMY Kwan, S Liras… - Journal of the …, 1995 - ACS Publications
Diazo decomposition of allylic and homoallylic diazoacetates lOa-p and 22a-j catalyzed by
chiral dirhodium (II) tetrakis [methyl 2-pyrrolidone-5 (S)-carboxylate], Rh2 (5S-MEPY) 4 (7), …

Rational design and synthesis of an orally bioavailable peptide guided by NMR amide temperature coefficients

…, DS Nielsen, CI Schroeder, S Liras… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Enhancing the oral bioavailability of peptide drug leads is a major challenge in drug design.
As such, methods to address this challenge are highly sought after by the pharmaceutical …

Comparative α‐Helicity of cyclic pentapeptides in water

…, TA Hill, RW Driver, DA Price, S Liras… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Helix‐constrained polypeptides have attracted great interest for modulating protein–protein
interactions (PPI). It is not known which are the most effective helix‐inducing strategies for …

Probing the physicochemical boundaries of cell permeability and oral bioavailability in lipophilic macrocycles inspired by natural products

…, DA Price, AM Mathiowetz, S Liras… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptide natural products contain a variety of conserved, nonproteinogenic structural
elements such as d-amino acids and amide N-methylation. In addition, many cyclic peptides …

Improving on nature: making a cyclic heptapeptide orally bioavailable

…, RB Ruggeri, DA Price, S Liras… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The use of peptides in medicine is limited by low membrane permeability, metabolic instability,
high clearance, and negligible oral bioavailability. The prediction of oral bioavailability of …

Medicinal chemistry design principles for liver targeting through OATP transporters

…, J Litchfield, L Di, B Feng, S Liras - Current Topics in …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
… Given the liver’s key role in metabolic regulation and the fact that it is the principal tissue
affected by diseases such as hepatitis B and C viruses as well as hepatocellular carcinoma, …

Receptor-mediated delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 endonuclease for cell-type-specific gene editing

…, KF McClure, RC Wilson, S Liras… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
… We report the design and in vitro evaluation of S. pyogenes Cas9 proteins harboring
asialoglycoprotein receptor ligands (ASGPrL). In particular, we demonstrate that the resulting …