Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Laboratory of Computer-Assisted Drug Design, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
J Pept Sci. 2024 Dec;30(12):e3646. doi: 10.1002/psc.3646. Epub 2024 Jul 31.
The interest in peptides and especially in peptidomimetic structures has risen enormously in the past few years. Novel modification strategies including nonnatural amino acids, sophisticated cyclization strategies, and side chain modifications to improve the pharmacokinetic properties of peptides are continuously arising. However, a calculator tool accompanying the current development in peptide sciences towards modified peptides is missing. Herein, we present the application PICKAPEP, enabling the virtual construction and visualization of peptidomimetics ranging from well-known cyclized and modified peptides such as ciclosporin A up to fully self-designed peptide-based structures with custom amino acids. Calculated parameters include the molecular weight, the water-octanol partition coefficient, the topological polar surface area, the number of rotatable bonds, and the peptide SMILES code. To our knowledge, PICKAPEP is the first tool allowing users to add custom amino acids as building blocks and also the only tool giving the possibility to process large peptide libraries and calculate parameters for multiple peptides at once. We believe that PICKAPEP will support peptide researchers in their work and will find wide application in current as well as future peptide drug development processes. PICKAPEP is available open source for Windows and Mac operating systems (https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/681174).
在过去的几年中,人们对肽,尤其是肽类似物结构的兴趣大大增加。新的修饰策略包括非天然氨基酸、复杂的环化策略和侧链修饰,以改善肽的药代动力学特性,这些策略不断涌现。然而,目前肽科学朝着修饰肽方向发展,却缺少一个配套的计算器工具。在此,我们介绍了 PICKAPEP 应用程序,它能够虚拟构建和可视化从环化和修饰肽(如环孢菌素 A)到完全自定义基于肽的结构的肽类似物,自定义氨基酸。计算的参数包括分子量、油水分配系数、拓扑极性表面积、可旋转键的数量和肽 SMILES 代码。据我们所知,PICKAPEP 是第一个允许用户添加自定义氨基酸作为构建块的工具,也是唯一一个能够处理大型肽文库并同时为多个肽计算参数的工具。我们相信,PICKAPEP 将支持肽研究人员的工作,并在当前和未来的肽药物开发过程中得到广泛应用。PICKAPEP 可在 Windows 和 Mac 操作系统上开源使用(https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/681174)。