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Peptide therapeutics are an emerging class of drugs to treat neurodegenerative diseases by inhibiting protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Nerinetide has recently emerged as a promising therapeutic for the treatment of ischemic stroke and Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The design of this potent neuroprotective agent includes a cell penetrating peptide sequence that achieves delivery into neurons and a protein-protein inhibitory sequence that achieves inhibition of protein complex formation through mimicry. In this study, we deconstruct the nerinetide sequence and study the relationship between plasma stability, intraneuronal delivery and drug efficacy to provide design guidelines for the development of next generation, peptidic PPI inhibitors to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
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School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Taylor's University, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
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State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Natural Bioactive Molecules and Discovery of Innovative Drugs, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Non-human Primate Research, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Institute of CNS Rege
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