title: Peptide secondary structure mimetics: applications to vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
abstract: An important goal of structural biochemistry is the reduction of complex molecules to small functional units that are amenable to high-resolution structural analysis and rapid modification. The dissection of multidomain proteins into small synthetic conformationally restricted components is an important step in the design of low molecular weight nonpeptides that mimic the activity of the native protein. Mimetics of critical functional domains might possess beneficial properties in comparison to the intact proteinaceous species with regard to specificity and therapeutic potential, and are valuable probes for the study of molecular recognition events, and the development of novel vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
authors.affiliation: Molecumetics, Ltd., Bellevue, Washington 98005, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Qabar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D000939:Epitopes; D006801:Humans; D007136:Immunoglobulins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D007136:Immunoglobulins; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic