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Development of Mirror-Image Protein Drugs: Advances in Chemical Synthesis, Mirror-Image Phage Display, and Computational Design
Ren Yuxiang, Han Dongyang, Shi Weiwei
Prog Chem ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (9) : 1261-1273.
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Development of Mirror-Image Protein Drugs: Advances in Chemical Synthesis, Mirror-Image Phage Display, and Computational Design
Mirror-image peptides and proteins composed entirely of D-amino acids have emerged as promising therapeutic candidates owing to their resistance to proteolysis and reduced immunogenicity. Mirror-image phage display (MIPD) is currently the main experimental technique for identifying mirror-image peptide ligands targeting disease-related proteins. However, the success of MIPD critically depends on synthetic mirror-image target proteins, which cannot be produced by traditional recombinant methods due to the intrinsic chirality of biological systems. Recent advances in chemical protein synthesis, such as enzyme-cleavable solubilizing tags, backbone-installed split intein-assisted ligation, and removable glycosylation modification-assisted folding strategies, have effectively addressed key challenges in preparing these complex mirror-image proteins. In addition, computational approaches, exemplified by AI-driven protein design, have become powerful complementary tools, accelerating the discovery and optimization of mirror-image protein drug candidates. Although mirror-image protein drugs have not yet reached clinical use, ongoing innovations in chemical synthesis and ligand screening methods are steadily advancing their therapeutic potential toward clinical translation.
1 Introduction
2 Mirror-image phage display
3 Chemical protein synthesis
3.1 Solid-phase peptide synthesis
3.2 Native chemical ligation
3.3 Peptide hydrazide ligation
3.4 Multiple-segment ligation
3.5 The ligation-desulfurization strategy
3.6 Solubilizing tags for hydrophobic segment
3.7 Chemoenzymatic D-peptide ligation
3.8 The folding of D-protein
4 Applications of mirror-image phage display
5 Computationally assisted discovery of mirror-image protein drugs
6 Conclusion and outlook
mirror-image protein / chemical protein synthesis / mirror-image phage display / protein de novo design
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