Circular plant peptides as templates for GPCR drug discovery?
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Background Cyclotides are disulfide-rich miniproteins with the unique structural features of a circular backbone and knotted arrangement of three conserved disulfide bonds. These features make them exceptionally stable and they have applications as plant defense (insecticidal) agents and stable drug frameworks. So far they have been found mainly in two plant families, including in every species of the violet family (Violaceae) so far examined, and in a few species of the coffee family (Rubiaceae).
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