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ArticleJournal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society2026

Covalent Peptide-Based N-Myc/Aurora-A Inhibitors Bearing Sulfonyl Fluoride Warheads.

Robert S Dawber, Diana Gimenez, George W Preston, Megan H Wright, Richard Bayliss, Stuart L Warriner, Andrew J Wilson

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Article in Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Covalent Peptide-Based N-Myc/Aurora-A Inhibitors Bearing Sulfonyl Fluoride Warheads.Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Robert S DawberSchool of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Diana GimenezSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK.
George W PrestonSchool of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Megan H WrightSchool of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2731-4707
Richard BaylissSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Stuart L WarrinerSchool of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Andrew J WilsonSchool of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-6366

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/V003577/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/V003577/2Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/V029169/1MRC Discovery Medicine MR/N013840/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Orthosteric inhibition of the N-Myc/Aurora-A protein-protein interaction (PPI) represents a potential mechanism by which degradation of N-Myc can be induced, given its interaction with Aurora-A competes with the factors that tag it for proteasomal degradation. As such, this would constitute an approach for the development of drugs to treat neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that depends upon N-Myc. Reactive electrophiles have proven useful in the context of targeted covalent inhibitors, and in this work, we sought to improve the potency of a previously identified N-Myc-derived peptide by introducing a sulfonyl fluoride warhead. We successfully demonstrated selective labelling of Aurora-A using the resultant peptidomimetics and established this labelling as recognition-directed, providing valuable insight for further future development of N-Myc peptidomimetics and further broadening the use of aryl sulfonyl fluoride warheads in the context of peptidomimetic PPI inhibitors.

Indexed as

Aurora Kinase APeptidesPeptidomimeticsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycSulfinic AcidsHumansAurora Kinase APeptidesPeptidomimeticsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycSulfinic Acidssulfuryl fluoride

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PMID41634954
PMCPMC12867955

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