Emerging and Re-emerging Warheads for Targeted Covalent Inhibitors: An Update

L Hillebrand, XJ Liang, RAM Serafim… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent inhibitors and other types of covalent modalities have seen a revival in the past two
decades, with a variety of new targeted covalent drugs having been approved in recent …

Advanced approaches of developing targeted covalent drugs

C Gai, SJ Harnor, S Zhang, C Cano, C Zhuang… - RSC Medicinal …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, the development of targeted covalent inhibitors has gained popularity
around the world. Specific groups (electrophilic warheads) form irreversible bonds with the …

Emerging and re-emerging warheads for targeted covalent inhibitors: applications in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

M Gehringer, SA Laufer - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs) are designed to bind poorly conserved amino acids by
means of reactive groups, the so-called warheads. Currently, targeting noncatalytic cysteine …

Electrophilic warheads in covalent drug discovery: An overview

N Péczka, Z Orgován, P Ábrányi-Balogh… - Expert Opinion on …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Covalent drugs have been used for more than hundred years, but gathered
larger interest in the last two decades. There are currently over a 100 different electrophilic …

Recent progress in covalent warheads for in vivo targeting of endogenous proteins

N Shindo, A Ojida - Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Covalent drugs exert potent and durable activity by chemical modification of the
endogenous target protein in vivo. To maximize the pharmacological efficacy while …

The expanding repertoire of covalent warheads for drug discovery

NV Mehta, MS Degani - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The reactive functionalities of drugs that engage in covalent interactions with the
enzyme/receptor residue in either a reversible or an irreversible manner are …

Beyond cysteine: recent developments in the area of targeted covalent inhibition

H Mukherjee, NP Grimster - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past decade targeted covalent inhibitors have undergone a renaissance due to the
clinical validation and regulatory approval of several small molecule therapeutics that are …

A road map for prioritizing warheads for cysteine targeting covalent inhibitors

P Abranyi-Balogh, L Petri, T Imre, P Szijj… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Targeted covalent inhibitors have become an integral part of a number of therapeutic
protocols and are the subject of intense research. The mechanism of action of these …

Design of next-generation covalent inhibitors: Targeting residues beyond cysteine

LH Jones - Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Covalent protein inhibitors have found considerable utility in medicinal chemistry and
chemical biology. Chemical probes and drugs have been rationally designed and fine-tuned …

New Cysteine Covalent Modification Strategies Enable Advancement of Proteome‐wide Selectivity of Kinase Modulators

I Guan, K Williams, J Pan, X Liu - Asian Journal of Organic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There has been tremendous progress in covalent inhibitors as evidenced by the ascent of
innovative electrophilic warheads with suppressed non‐specific reactivity but enhanced …