The list of scientific publications by users of our peptide synthesizers is growing steadily.This review article is based on a recent article in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry by Rahul Kumar and colleagues at All India Institute of Medical Sciences and School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
In this study, Rahul Kumar and his colleagues designed and synthesized a novel peptide SIRT1 activator. SIRT1 has been shown to have a protective role against Alzheimer's disease.The peptide, CWR, was tested for its effect on the activity of recombinant SIRT1 protein and also determining its cytotoxicity. CWR was found to be a potent allosteric activator of SIRT1 both by molecular docking and in vitro analysis, increased cell viability and no toxicity to human erythrocytes were also observed.