A new synthetic amino acid for an emerging class of drugs
Sunday, August 31, 2014 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Swiss scientists have developed a new amino acid that can be used to modify the 3-D structure of therapeutic peptides. Insertion of the amino acid into bioactive peptides enhanced their binding affinity up to 40-fold. Peptides with the new amino acid could potentially become a new class of therapeutics.