Disulfide-directed multicyclic peptide libraries for the discovery of peptide ligands and drugs

S Lu, S Fan, S Xiao, J Li, S Zhang, Y Wu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multicyclic peptides with stable 3D structures are a kind of novel and promising peptide
formats for drug design and discovery as they have the potential to combine the best …

Bicyclobutane carboxylic amide as a cysteine-directed strained electrophile for selective targeting of proteins

K Tokunaga, M Sato, K Kuwata, C Miura… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Expanding the repertoire of electrophiles with unique reactivity features would facilitate the
development of covalent inhibitors with desirable reactivity profiles. We herein introduce …

Enzyme-responsive peptide thioesters for targeting Golgi apparatus

W Tan, Q Zhang, MC Quiñones-Frías… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Golgi apparatus (GA) is the hub of intracellular trafficking, but selectively targeting GA
remains a challenge. We show an unconventional types of peptide thioesters, consisting of …

Alkyl sulfinates as cross-coupling partners for programmable and stereospecific installation of C(sp3) bioisosteres

M Zhou, J Tsien, R Dykstra, JME Hughes, BK Peters… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, a variety of cycloalkyl groups with quaternary carbons, in particular
cyclopropyl and cyclobutyl trifluoromethyl groups, have emerged as promising bioisosteres …

Unraveling tetrazine-triggered bioorthogonal elimination enables chemical tools for ultrafast release and universal cleavage

JCT Carlson, H Mikula… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recent developments in bond cleavage reactions have expanded the scope of
bioorthogonal chemistry beyond click ligation and enabled new strategies for probe …

A chemoproteomic platform to quantitatively map targets of lipid-derived electrophiles

C Wang, E Weerapana, MM Blewett, BF Cravatt - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
Cells produce electrophilic products with the potential to modify and affect the function of
proteins. Chemoproteomic methods have provided a means to qualitatively inventory …

Tunable heteroaromatic azoline thioethers (HATs) for cysteine profiling

KC Tang, SM Maddox, KM Backus, M Raj - Chemical science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we report a new series of hydrolytically stable chemotype heteroaromatic azoline
thioethers (HATs) to achieve highly selective, rapid, and efficient covalent labeling of …

Stapling of unprotected helical peptides via photo-induced intramolecular thiol–yne hydrothiolation

Y Tian, J Li, H Zhao, X Zeng, D Wang, Q Liu, X Niu… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide stapling emerged as a versatile strategy to recapitulate the bioactive helical
conformation of unstructured short peptides in water to improve their therapeutic properties …

A sulfonium tethered peptide ligand rapidly and selectively modifies protein cysteine in vicinity

D Wang, M Yu, N Liu, C Lian, Z Hou, R Wang… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Significant efforts have been invested to develop site-specific protein modification
methodologies in the past two decades. In most cases, a reactive moiety was installed onto …

Stereospecific α-(hetero) arylation of sulfoximines and sulfonimidamides

ZP Shultz, T Scattolin, L Wojtas, JM Lopchuk - Nature synthesis, 2022 - nature.com
The occurrence of sulfoximines and sulfonimidoyl groups in biologically active molecules
within pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals has notably increased in the past decade. This …