Vasanthanathan Poongavanam, Duc Duy Vo, Jan Kihlberg
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Abstract
Orally bioavailable, high molecular weight macrocyclic peptides that inhibit difficult-to-drug protein–protein interactions are of high therapeutic value, and rules for their design were proposed recently. Here, we emphasize the danger of rules that provide a false impression of the lipophilicity required of a clinical candidate.
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