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Peptidomimetics are compounds whose essential elements (pharmacophore) mimic a natural peptide or protein in 3D space and which retain the ability to interact with the biological target and produce the same biological effect. Peptidomimetics are designed to circumvent some of the problems associated with a natural peptide: e.g. stability against proteolysis (duration of activity) and poor bioavailability. Certain other properties, such as receptor selectivity or potency, often can be substantially improved. The design and synthesis of peptidomimetics are most important because of the dominant position peptide and protein-protein interactions play in molecular recognition and signaling, especially in living systems. Hence mimics have great potential in drug discovery.

MCE Peptidomimetic Library contains 376 compounds including peptoid, α-helix mimetics, β-turn/sheets mimetics, etc. This library is an indispensable tool of structure-activity relationships in drug discovery.

Cyclic peptides are polypeptide chains taking cyclic ring structure, which exhibit diverse biological activities, such as antibacterial activity, immunosuppressive activity and anti-tumor activity. Cyclic peptides, with the features of good binding affinity, target selectivity and low toxicity, show great success as therapeutics. Multiple cyclic peptides are currently in clinical use, for examples, gramicidin and tyrocidine with bactericidal activity, cyclosporin A with immunosuppressive activity, and vancomycin with antibacterial activity. Furthermore, cyclic peptides usually have the sufficient size and a balanced conformational flexibility/rigidity for binding to flat protein-protein interaction (PPI) interfaces, which have potential to develop PPI drugs.

MCE offers a unique collection of 84 cyclic peptides, all of which have good bioactivities. MCE Cyclic Peptide Library is a powerful tool for drug discovery and PPI inhibitor screening.

Macrocycles, molecules containing 12-membered or larger rings, are receiving increased attention in small-molecule drug discovery. The reasons are several, including providing access to novel chemical space, challenging new protein targets, showing favorable ADME- and PK-properties. Macrocycles have demonstrated repeated success when addressing targets that have proved to be highly challenging for standard small-molecule drug discovery, especially in modulating macromolecular processes such as protein–protein interactions (PPI). Otherwise, the size and complexity of macrocyclic compounds make possible to ensure numerous and spatially distributed binding interactions, thereby increasing both binding affinity and selectivity.

MCE offers a unique collection of 364 macrocyclic compounds which can be used for drug discovery for high throughput screening (HTS) and high content screening (HCS). MCE Macrocyclic Compound Library is a useful tool for discovering new drugs, especially for “undruggable” targets and protein–protein interactions.

MCE High-Affinity Iodoacetyl Agarose, a 4% highly cross-linked agarose reagent coupled with a derivative of iodoacetic acid, is ideal for conjugating sulfhydryl-containing peptide or protein for subsequent affinity purification.

MCE Anti-Flag Affinity Gel is used for immunoprecipitation (IP) or protein purification of specific Flag-tagged proteins expressed in bacterial and mammalian cells and in vitro expression systems.

MCE Protein A/G Agarose is an affinity chromatography medium for separation and purification of immunoglobulins.

MCE Anti-RFP Affinity Gel can be used for the detection and purification of native RFP, RFP mutants, and their fusion-expressed proteins. Moreover, it can be utilized for immunoprecipitation (IP) assays.

MCE Anti-c-Myc Affinity Gel can be used for the detection and purification of c-Myc fusion expressed proteins, and immunoprecipitation (IP) experiments to detect the expression of recombinant proteins in target cells.

MCE Anti-HA Affinity Gel can be employed for the detection and purification of HA fusion expressed proteins, and can also be used in immunoprecipitation (IP) experiments to detect the expression of recombinant proteins in target cells.

MCE Anti-YFP Affinity Gel can be used for the detection and purification of proteins tagged with GFP and EGFP, however, it does not bind to proteins tagged with BFP or RFP. Moreover, it can be utilized for immunoprecipitation (IP) assays.

MCE CHO Magnetic Beads (200 nm, 10 mg/mL) contain CHO functional groups, which react with primary amines on proteins or other molecules to form stable amide linkages，can covalently immobilize proteins for the affinity purification of antibodies, antigens and other biomolecules.

MCE NHS Magnetic Beads (200 nm, 10 mg/mL) contain N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) functional groups, which react with primary amines on proteins or other molecules to form stable amide linkages，can covalently immobilize proteins for the affinity purification of antibodies, antigens and other biomolecules.

MCE Streptavidin Agarose 6FF, a 6% highly cross-linked agarose reagent coupled with recombinant streptavidin, is an affinity chromatography medium for separation and purification of biotinylated peptides, antibodies, lectins, etc. The total binding capacity of Streptavidin Agarose 6FF is more than 200 nmol of D-Biotin/mL settled resin.

MCE Anti-GFP Affinity Gel is produced through the covalent coupling of high-quality GFP antibody with agarose. It boasts a high loading capacity, exceptional specificity, and stability. This gel can be used for the detection and purification of GFP, EGFP, and their fusion-expressed proteins. Moreover, it can be utilized for cimmunoprecipitation (IP) assays without binding to BFP-tagged proteins.