Covalent inhibitors: an opportunity for rational target selectivity

R Lagoutte, R Patouret, N Winssinger - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a resurging interest in compounds that engage their target through covalent
interactions. Cysteine's thiol is endowed with enhanced reactivity, making it the nucleophile …

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 …

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 …

Lysine-targeted inhibitors and chemoproteomic probes

A Cuesta, J Taunton - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Covalent inhibitors are widely used in drug discovery and chemical biology. Although
covalent inhibitors are frequently designed to react with noncatalytic cysteines, many ligand …

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 …

Structure-based design of targeted covalent inhibitors

R Lonsdale, RA Ward - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covalent inhibition is a rapidly growing discipline within drug discovery. Many historical
covalent inhibitors were discovered by serendipity, with such a mechanism of action often …

New electrophiles and strategies for mechanism-based and targeted covalent inhibitor design

S Ray, AS Murkin - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Covalent inhibitors are experiencing a growing resurgence in drug design and are an
increasingly useful tool in molecular biology. The ability to attach inhibitors to their targets by …

Targeted covalent inhibitors for drug design

TA Baillie - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In contrast to the traditional mechanism of drug action that relies on the reversible,
noncovalent interaction of a ligand with its biological target, a targeted covalent inhibitor …

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 …

Targeted covalent enzyme inhibitors

MC Noe, AM Gilbert - Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Targeted covalent enzyme inhibition is experiencing resurgence as a medicinal chemistry
design strategy. Targeted covalent inhibitors exhibit slow target offset, increased binding …