Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

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

  • Zachary R. Crook,
  • Gregory P. Sevilla,
  • Della Friend,
  • Mi-Youn Brusniak,
  • Ashok D. Bandaranayake,
  • Midori Clarke,
  • Mesfin Gewe,
  • Andrew J. Mhyre,
  • David Baker,
  • Roland K. Strong,
  • Philip Bradley,
  • James M. Olson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02098-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Pathologies related to protein:protein interaction are hard to treat but cystine-dense peptides have the potential to disrupt such interactions. Here the authors develop a high-diversity mammalian cell screen for cystine-dense peptides with drug potential and use it to identify a YAP:TEAD inhibitor.