Lipidated peptides and the limits of chemical control
Fernando Albericio
Peptide lipidation is widely employed to enhance the apparent biological performance of peptide-based systems by improving stability, membrane association, and systemic persistence. However, increased potency is often interpreted uncritically as evidence of improved molecular design. This Perspective highlights that lipidation can reshape peptide behaviour by partially shifting functional control from sequence-encoded molecular recognition toward context-dependent effects in which membrane inter