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Characterization of Intra-Cartilage Transport Properties of Cationic Peptide Carriers
Published on: August 10, 2020
Simple acyclic dipeptides with aromatic units as anion carriers
Umatai A Hale1, Anil K Yadav1, Nandita Madhavan1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, 400076, India. nanditam@chem.iitb.ac.in.
Abstract:
Simple peptide derived anion-transporters are desirable for therapeutic use and as model systems to study natural proteins. Herein, acyclic dipeptides rich in aromatic units transport anions across lipid bilayers. The NH groups bind to anions while the hydrophobic side chain helps in membrane insertion.
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