The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea as a model system for the discovery and characterization of cell-penetrating peptides and bioportides

Sarah Jones, Shaimaa Osman, John Howl*

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    5 Citations (SciVal)
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1036-1049
    Number of pages14
    JournalChemical Biology and Drug Design
    Volume93
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - Jun 2019

    Funding

    The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by Chris Mason and CEM towards the development and maintenance of a microwave-enhanced peptide synthesis facility. Shaimaa Osman was in receipt of Newton-Mosharafa Fellowship from 2015 to 2017. We also thank Professor Jerzy Silberring, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krak?w, for the mass spectral analyses of some peptides reported in this study.

    FundersFunder number
    College of Emergency Medicine

      Keywords

      • bioportide
      • blastema
      • cell-penetrating peptide
      • confocal microscopy
      • eye regeneration
      • peptide synthesis
      • zinc finger

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