Chemical synthesis of cyclotide from the medicinal plant clitoria ternatea

• Main Author: Wang, Yingqi
• Other Authors: Sze Siu Kwan
• Format: Student Research Poster
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Cyclotide; Cyclization
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84099; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11310
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cyclotides are a special class of ultrastable peptides which possess a cyclized backbone and three disulfide bridges. They display many bioactivities and are attractive targets for drug discovery. The medicinal plant Clitoria ternatea contains a high abundance cyclotides, named as cliotides (cT, whi...