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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Small molecule-constrained paratope mimetic bicyclic peptides as potent inhibitors of group 1 and 2 influenza A virus hemagglutinins.

Rameshwar U Kadam, Jarek Juraszek, Boerries Brandenburg, Divita Garg, Xueyong Zhu, Mandy Jongeneelen, Chan Tang, Wim B G Schepens, Christophe Buyck, Bart Stoops and 5 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Rameshwar U Kadam *Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Jarek Juraszek *Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.
Boerries BrandenburgJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5025-3802
Divita GargDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Xueyong ZhuDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.ORCID 0000-0002-6021-3740
Mandy JongeneelenJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9081-4758
Chan TangJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.
Wim B G SchepensDiscovery Chemistry, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Beerse 2340, Belgium.
Christophe BuyckComputer-Aided Drug Design, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Beerse 2340, Belgium.
Bart StoopsDiscovery Chemistry, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Beerse 2340, Belgium.
Jan VermondJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.
Ronald VogelsJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.
Robert H E FriesenJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.
Maria J P van DongenJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Leiden 2333 CN, The Netherlands.
Ian A WilsonDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.ORCID 0000-0002-6469-2419

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HHS | NIH | NIAID | Division of Intramural Research (DIR) R56 AI117675 R56 AI127371
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Abstract

Influenza continues to be a major threat to global health and a substantial economic burden. Innovative strategies are needed to tackle the growing resistance to established influenza therapeutics and to develop new therapeutics with novel mechanisms of action. Previous peptide and small molecule designs have been successful only against influenza group 1 hemagglutinin (HA). Here, we report on a CLIPS (Chemical Linkage of Peptides onto Scaffolds)-based approach to design potent peptidic inhibitors of influenza A viruses that now extend to both group 1 and group 2 HAs. This approach merges features of antibodies and small molecules to design constrained bicyclic peptides that engage the highly conserved HA stem. The heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 3 (HCDR3) of human broadly neutralizing antibody FI6v3 was grafted onto functionalized small molecule scaffolds. The designed peptides exhibited in vitro heterosubtypic cross-reactivity in binding to group 1 (H1 and H5) and group 2 (H3 and H7) HAs and in neutralization of H1N1, H5N1, and H7N3 viruses. A crystal structure of the bicyclic peptide with HA from H1N1 A/Puerto Rico/8/1934 (H1/PR8) at 2.35 Å resolution revealed that the designed peptide faithfully mimics the binding mode and functionality of the parent antibody FI6v3 to the highly conserved stem epitope. These structural and functional data illustrate how both group 1 and group 2 influenza A viruses can now be targeted by constrained peptidic ligands that should aid in development of pan-influenza therapeutics.

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Antiviral AgentsHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusInfluenza A virusPeptides, CyclicAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCrystallography, X-RayDrug DesignHumansModels, MolecularAntiviral AgentsHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusPeptides, CyclicCLIPS peptidesdrug designhemagglutinininfluenza A virusX-ray crystallography

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PMCPMC13037862

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