Cyclotides are a new emerging family of large plant-derived backbone-cyclized polypeptides that are characterized by an unusual circular cysteine knotted (CCK) structure. They have several characteristics that make them ideal drug development tools. We proposed the generation and use of spatially-addressable arrays of chemically generated cyclotide-based libraries to specifically disrupt protein-protein interactions involved in HIV infection.

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