Peptide aptamers: tools for biology and drug discovery. |
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Authors: | Margaret Crawford Rob Woodman Paul Ko Ferrigno |
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Institution: | MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge, UK. |
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Abstract: | Peptide aptamer technology is relatively youthful. It has the advantage over existing techniques that the reagents identified are designed for expression in eukaryotic cells. This allows the construction of molecular tools that allow the logic of genetics, from knockouts to extragenic suppressors, to be applied to studies of proteins in tissue culture cells. Until recently, the available tools have limited our understanding of cell biology. The same limitation restricts out ability to validate the numerous candidate drug targets emerging from genome-wide approaches to cellular biology. Peptide aptamers represent a stride forwards in the evolution of a modular, molecular tool kit for cell biology and for drug target validation. The authors predict that they will also play a role in the transition from genomic to proteomic microarray technology. |
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Keywords: | constrained peptides nanotechnology protein engineering protein genetics proteolysis cellular targeting signals |
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