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Overview

Morten Meldal is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on molecular biology, organic chemistry, physiology, infectious diseases, and biomaterials. The subfields of study most represented in their work include Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Meldal's research incorporate chemical synthesis and analysis, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, click chemistry and applications, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, and protein hydrolysis and bioactive peptides.

Meldal's publication record includes contributions to several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Trends in Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Meldal include:

  • Recent Fascinating Aspects of the CuAAC Click Reaction, 2020, Trends in Chemistry
  • Hydrodynamic Control of Alzheimer Aβ Fibrillation with Glucosaminic Acid Containing Click-Cyclized β-Bodies, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • C-Terminal lactamization of peptides, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Development of Selective ADAMTS-5 Peptide Substrates to Monitor Proteinase Activity, 2023, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Design and Combinatorial Development of Shield-1 Peptide Mimetics Binding to Destabilized FKBP12, 2020, ACS Combinatorial Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meldal include Yuan Zhang, Sanne Schoffelen, Frederik Diness, Jacob Kæstel-Hansen, and David Tezé. Their collaborative efforts contribute to multidisciplinary studies across chemistry and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Peptidotriazoles on solid phase: [1,2,3]-triazoles by regiospecific copper(i)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of terminal alkynes to azides.

    Christian W Tornøe;Caspar Christensen;Morten Meldal

  • Cu-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition.

    Morten Meldal;Christian Wenzel Tornøe

  • Pega: a flow stable polyethylene glycol dimethyl acrylamide copolymer for solid phase synthesis.

    Morten Meldal

  • Polymer “Clicking” by CuAAC Reactions

    Morten Meldal

  • Internally quenched fluorescent peptide substrates disclose the subsite preferences of human caspases 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8.

    Henning R. Stennicke;Martin Renatus;Morten Meldal;Guy S. Salvesen

  • A comparative study of the physicochemical properties of iron isomaltoside 1000 (Monofer), a new intravenous iron preparation and its clinical implications.

    Markus R. Jahn;Hans B. Andreasen;Sören Fütterer;Thomas Nawroth

  • Portion-mixing peptide libraries of quenched fluorogenic substrates for complete subsite mapping of endoprotease specificity.

    Morten Meldal;Ib Svendsen;Klaus Breddam;France-Isabelle Auzanneau

  • Recent Fascinating Aspects of the CuAAC Click Reaction

    Morten Meldal;Frederik Diness

  • Anthranilamide and nitrotyrosine as a donor-acceptor pair in internally quenched fluorescent substrates for endopeptidases: multicolumn peptide synthesis of enzyme substrates for subtilisin Carlsberg and pepsin.

    Morten Meldal;Klaus Breddam

  • Combinatorial library of peptidotriazoles: identification of [1,2,3]-triazole inhibitors against a recombinant Leishmania mexicana cysteine protease.

    Christian W. Tornøe;Sanya J. Sanderson;Jeremy C. Mottram;Graham H. Coombs

  • Extensive comparison of the substrate preferences of two subtilisins as determined with peptide substrates which are based on the principle of intramolecular quenching.

    Grøn H;Meldal M;Breddam K

  • SPOCC : A RESIN FOR SOLID-PHASE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND ENZYMATIC REACTIONS ON SOLID PHASE

    Jörg Rademann;Morten Grøtli;Morten Meldal;Klaus Bock

  • POEPOP AND POEPS : INERT POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL CROSSLINKED POLYMERIC SUPPORTS FOR SOLID SYNTHESIS

    Manat Renil;Morten Meldal

  • Synthesis, characterization and biocompatibility of PEGA resins.

    France-Isabelle Auzanneau;Morten Meldal;Klaus Bock

  • Maintaining Biological Activity by Using Triazoles as Disufide Bond Mimetics

    Kai Holland-Nell;Morten Meldal

  • Substrate preferences of glutamic-acid-specific endopeptidases assessed by synthetic peptide substrates based on intramolecular fluorescence quenching.

    Klaus Breddam;Morten Meldal

  • Peptidotriazoles: Copper(I)-Catalyzed 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions on Solid-Phase

    Christian W. Tornøe;Morten Meldal

  • T-Cell Recognition of Tumor-associated Carbohydrates: The Nature of the Glycan Moiety Plays a Decisive Role in Determining Glycopeptide Immunogenicity

    L Galli-Stampino;E Meinjohanns;K Frische;M Meldal

  • High Capacity Poly(ethylene glycol) Based Amino Polymers for Peptide and Organic Synthesis

    Michael Roice;Ib Johannsen;Morten Meldal

  • Novel sequential solid-phase synthesis of N-linked glycopeptides from natural sources

    Ernst Meinjohanns;Morten Meldal;Hans Paulsen;Raymond A. Dwek

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Bock
Klaus Bock European Research Council
Hans Paulsen
Hans Paulsen Universität Hamburg
Maria A. Juliano
Maria A. Juliano Federal University of Sao Paulo
Jens Ø. Duus
Jens Ø. Duus Technical University of Denmark
Luiz Juliano
Luiz Juliano Federal University of Sao Paulo
Jeremy C. Mottram
Jeremy C. Mottram University of York
Knud J. Jensen
Knud J. Jensen University of Copenhagen
Graham H. Coombs
Graham H. Coombs University of Strathclyde
Ole Buchardt
Ole Buchardt University of Copenhagen
Jean-Marie Delaissé
Jean-Marie Delaissé University of Southern Denmark

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