Published today in @nchembio@NaturePortfolio: a framework for the de novo design of antimicrobial α-helical peptides that assemble into transmembrane barrel-stave nanopores.
By combining computational design with mechanistic and experimental validation, we developed 52 modular sequence templates and demonstrated in vivo efficacy against drug-resistant pathogens.
This work advances our broader goal of learning the principles that govern biological function—and using them to engineer new therapeutic molecules.
Grateful to an outstanding team of collaborators: @rahuldeb60991, @mdt_torres, @EdoVreeker, @KoberskaMarketa, @MagliaGiovanni, @LabVacha, Ivo Kabelka, Jan Přibyl, Kateřina Dvořáková Bendová, Gabriela Balíková Novotná, and Miloš Petřík, @muni_cz, @jisuniversity, @univgroningen, @Penn@PennBioeng@PennEngineers@PennMedicine@PennChemistry@CBE_Penn@PennMicro@PennPsych@PennSAS
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