Tailored Cross-β Assemblies Establish Peptide “Dominos” Structures for Anchoring Undruggable Pharmacophores

Limin Zhang, Mengzhen Li, Minxuan Wang, Lingyun Li, Mingmei Guo, Yubin Ke, Peng Zhou, Weizhi Wang*

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Abstract

β-sheets have the ability to hierarchically stack into assemblies, and much effort has been spent on designing different peptides to regulate their assembly behaviors. Although the progress is remarkable, it remains challenging to manipulate them in a controllable way for achieving both tailored structures and specific functions. In this study, we obtained bola-like peptides using de novo design and combinatorial chemical screening. By regulating the solvent-accessible surface area of the peptide chain, a series of assemblies with different tilt angles and active sites of the β-sheet were obtained, resembling collapsed dominos. The structure-activity relationship of the optimized peptide NQ40 system was established and its ability to target the PD-L1 was demonstrated. This study successfully established the structure-function relationship of β-sheets assemblies and has positive implications on the rational design of peptide assemblies that possess recognition abilities.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere202212527
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume61
Issue number51
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Dominos
  • PD-L1
  • Peptides
  • Self-Assembly
  • β-Sheets

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