Hashemi Zahra Sadat, Zarei Mahboubeh, Fath Mohsen Karami, Ganji Mahmoud, Farahani Mahboube Shahrabi, Afsharnouri Fatemeh, Pourzardosht Navid, Khalesi Bahman, Jahangiri Abolfazl, Rahbar Mohammad Reza, Khalili Saeed
ATMP Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran.
Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Front Mol Biosci. 2021 Apr 28;8:669431. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.669431. eCollection 2021.
Large contact surfaces of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) remain to be an ongoing issue in the discovery and design of small molecule modulators. Peptides are intrinsically capable of exploring larger surfaces, stable, and bioavailable, and therefore bear a high therapeutic value in the treatment of various diseases, including cancer, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Given these promising properties, a long way has been covered in the field of targeting PPIs peptide design strategies. tools have recently become an inevitable approach for the design and optimization of these interfering peptides. Various algorithms have been developed to scrutinize the PPI interfaces. Moreover, different databases and software tools have been created to predict the peptide structures and their interactions with target protein complexes. High-throughput screening of large peptide libraries against PPIs; "hotspot" identification; structure-based and off-structure approaches of peptide design; 3D peptide modeling; peptide optimization strategies like cyclization; and peptide binding energy evaluation are among the capabilities of tools. In the present study, the most recent advances in the field of approaches for the design of interfering peptides against PPIs will be reviewed. The future perspective of the field and its advantages and limitations will also be pinpointed.
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