Chair of Biomimetic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences
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Our book chapter “Stapled Peptide Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions” in “Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions: Small Molecules, Peptides and Macrocycles” by the Royal Society of Chemistry and edited by Ali Tavassoli has been published.
Congrats to Mathias and Niall, and thanks to Ali for putting together this great collection!
“A protein tertiary structure mimetic modulator of the Hippo signalling pathway”
H Adihou et al. Nature Commun., 11, 5425 (2020)
Thanks to our collaboration partners at the Max Planck Insitute for Molecular Physiology, AstraZeneca, the A*STAR Institute in Singapure and Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
It is great to have Steffie, Canan and Alejandro joining our team as new PhD students!
Saskia received support by the NWO (Take-off phase 1) for a feasibility study related to our INCYPRO protein stabilization technology.
Read more about INCYPRO here: Neubacher et al., J. Org. Chem., 2020 and Pelay‑Gimeno et al., Angew. Chem., 2018
Ivana joins our group as assistant professor working in the field of biocatalysis. If you want to know more you can follow Ivana on Twitter @IvanaDrienovska
Great to have Mohamed and Glenn joining our INCYPRO team!
The Community R&D Information Service (CORDIS) of the European Commission features our INCYPRO protein stabilization technology: https://t.co/j5ZGsnU6Mm?amp=1
We are grateful for support by the European Research Council via an ERC Proof-of-Concept grant!
Kerstin successfully defended her PhD.
Read more about Kerstin’s work here: Chem. Sci., 11, 2269–2276 (2020), Biomed. Pharmacol., 177, 113938 (2020) and ChemBioChem 17, 1915–1919 (2016).
The symposium features 20 min presentations by Tom, Alison Narayan (University of Michigan) and Gonçalo Bernardes (University of Cambridge).
The talks are now available online on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duc-od5S93w
The author profile acknowledges Tom’s 10th article in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202005712
“Proteomimetics as protein-inspired scaffolds with defined tertiary folding patterns” (PDF)
WS Horne*, TN Grossmann*, Nature Chem., DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-0420-9
Thanks to Seth Horne from the University of Pittsburgh for the great collaboration!
Our article “In situ cyclization of proteins (INCYPRO): Cross-link derivatization modulates protein stability” (S Neubacher*, J Saya, A Amore, TN Grossmann, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02490) was featured as supplementary cover in the special issue “Modern Peptide and Protein Chemistry” of the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Great to have Nick joining the group! He is supported by a VENI grant and will work on the multi-dataset analysis in cystal structure determination.
“Adapting free energy perturbation simulations for large macrocyclic ligands: How to dissect contributions from direct binding and free ligand flexibility”
K Wallraven, FL Holmelin, A Glas, S Hennig, AI Frolov*, TN Grossmann* DOI: 10.1039/C9SC04705K
Thanks to our collaborators at AstraZeneca!
“In situ cyclization of proteins (INCYPRO): Cross-link derivatization modulates protein stability”
S Neubacher*, J Saya, A Amore, TN Grossmann* DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02490
“Lipidated stapled peptides targeting the acyl binding protein UNC119”
PM Cromm, H Adihou, S Kapoor, M Vazquez Chantada, P Davey, D Longmire, E Hennes, W Hofer, P Küchler, E Chiarparin, H Waldmann*, TN Grossmann* DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900615
Thanks for the great contributions from collaborators at the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund and at AstraZeneca!
“Constrained peptides with fine-tuned flexibility inhibit NF-Y transcription factor assembly”
S Jeganathan, M Wendt, S Kiehstaller, D Brancaccio, A Kuepper, N Pospiech, A Carotenuto, E Novellino, S Hennig*, TN Grossmann* DOI: 10.1002/anie.20190790
Thanks to Diego Brancaccio and Alfonso Carotenuto at University of Naples for contributing NMR structures of bound peptides!
We’ll receive the Physics2Market grant supporting our efforts to use the INCYPRO technology to increase stability of therapeutic target proteins for screening purposes. Thanks to IXA for the support!
Read more about INCYPRO here: Pelay‑Gimeno et al., Angew. Chem., 2018 and Neubacher et al., BIOspektrum, 2019
