{"id":558,"date":"2019-04-16T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2024-11-16T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T02:49:10","slug":"explainer-why-peptides-are-the-next-big-thing-in-medical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/explainer-why-peptides-are-the-next-big-thing-in-medical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Why peptides are the \u2018next big thing\u2019 in medical research?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cell-penetration-peptide-for-drug-screening-1024x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cell-penetration-peptide-for-drug-screening-1024x200.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cell-penetration-peptide-for-drug-screening-300x59.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cell-penetration-peptide-for-drug-screening-768x150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cell-penetration-peptide-for-drug-screening-500x98.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cell-penetration-peptide-for-drug-screening.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cell Penetrating Peptides for Drug Discovery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biochemists are excited by the possibilities presented by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/\">peptides<\/a>&nbsp;and proteins as pharmaceuticals because they so often mimic exactly the behavior of a natural ligand \u2013 the substance that interacts with the receptor on an enzyme or cell to cause a biological process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peptides are used for:<br \/>1. Self-Assembling Peptide Epitopes as Novel Platform for Anticancer Vaccination:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/peptide-product\/ovalbumin250264-devsgleqlesiinfekl-p-9860.html\">OVA 250\u2212264<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/peptide-product\/hpv16e74357-hpv-p-9861.html\">HPV16 E7 43\u221257<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2<g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">.Incorporation<\/g> of DSPE-PEG and cRGD-modified DSPE-PEG molecules improves the biocompatibility and cellular uptake of the <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">nanoprodrug<\/g> platform:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/price_modification_labeling.html\">Click chemistry conjugation of peptides to PEGs<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Designing Tracers for Imaging from Cyclic Peptides: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/Peptide-Synthesis-FITC-modification.html\">ATTO, FITC, FAM, Cy3, Cy5, infrared C7<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Co-delivery of tumor antigen and dual toll-like receptor ligands into <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">dendritic<\/g> cell:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/Cell_Permeable_Peptides.html\">Cell Penetrating Peptides, HIV-TAT proteins, R8<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biochemists are excited by the possibilities presented by&nbsp;peptides&nbsp;and proteins as pharmaceuticals because they so often mimic exactly the behavior of a natural ligand \u2013 the substance that interacts with the receptor on an enzyme or cell to cause a biological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/explainer-why-peptides-are-the-next-big-thing-in-medical-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peptide_synthesis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifetein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}