• A comprehensive portrait of the venom of the giant red bull ant, Myrmecia gulosa, reveals a hyperdiverse hymenopteran toxin gene family 

      Robinson, Samuel D.; Mueller, Alexander; Clayton, Daniel; Starobova, Hana; Hamilton, Brett R.; Payne, Richard J.; Vetter, Irina; King, Glenn F.; Undheim, Eivind A. B.
      Published 2018-09-12
      Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are diverse and ubiquitous, and their ability to sting is familiar to many of us. However, their venoms remain largely unstudied. We provide the first comprehensive characterization of a ...
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    • Total Synthesis of Glycinocins A−C 

      Corcilius, Leo; Elias, Nabiha T.; Ochoa, Jessica L.; Linington, Roger G.; Payne, Richard J.
      Published 2017-09-15
      The glycinocins are a class of calcium-dependent, acidic cyclolipopeptide antibiotics structurally related to the clinically approved daptomycin. Herein, we describe a divergent total synthesis of glycinocins A–C, which ...
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    • Native Chemical Ligation−Photodesulfurization in Flow 

      Chisholm, Timothy S.; Clayton, Daniel; Dowman, Luke J.; Sayers, Jessica; Payne, Richard J.
      Published 2018-05-24
      Native chemical ligation (NCL) combined with desulfurization chemistry has revolutionized the way in which large polypeptides and proteins are accessed by chemical synthesis. Herein, we outline the use of flow chemistry ...
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    • Construction of Challenging Proline−Proline Junctions via 2 Diselenide−Selenoester Ligation Chemistry 

      Sayers, Jessica; Karpati, Phillip M. T.; Mitchell, Nicholas J.; Goldys, Anna M.; Kwong, Stephen M.; Firth, Neville; Chan, Bun; Payne, Richard J.
      Published 2018-09-21
      Polyproline sequences are highly abundant in prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins, where they serve as key components of secondary structure. To date, construction of the proline–proline motif has not been possible owing ...
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    • Falcipain Inhibitors Based on the Natural Product Gallinamide A Are Potent in Vitro and in Vivo Antimalarials 

      Stoye, Alexander; Juillard, Annette; Tang, Arthur H.; Legac, Jennifer; Gut, Jiri; White, Karen L.; Charman, Susan A.; Rosenthal, Philip J.; Grau, Georges E. R.; Hunt, Nicholas H.; Payne, Richard J.
      Published 2019-05-07
      A library of analogues of the cyanobacterium-derived depsipeptide natural product gallinamide A were designed and prepared using a highly efficient and convergent synthetic route. Analogues were shown to exhibit potent ...
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