Journal articleAuthors : Yakovlieva, Liubov; Ramírez-Palacios, Carlos; Marrink, Siewert J. (2020)
Cyclic peptides, with unique structural features, have emerged as new candidates for drug discovery; their association with human serum albumin (HSA; long blood half-life), is crucial to improve drug delivery and avoid renal clearance. Here, we present the crystal structure of HSA complexed with dalbavancin, a clinically used cyclic peptide. SAXS and ITC experiments showed that the HSA-dalbavancin complex exists in a monomeric state; dalbavancin is only ...