Bioorthogonal chemistry and its applications

RE Bird, SA Lemmel, X Yu, QA Zhou - Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal chemistry is a set of methods using the chemistry of non-native functional
groups to explore and understand biology in living organisms. In this review, we summarize …

Bioorthogonal chemistry

SL Scinto, DA Bilodeau, R Hincapie, W Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal chemistry represents a class of high-yielding chemical reactions that proceed
rapidly and selectively in biological environments without side reactions towards …

Chemo-physical Strategies to Advance the in Vivo Functionality of Targeted Nanomedicine: The Next Generation

J Li, K Kataoka - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past few decades have witnessed an evolution of nanomedicine from biologically inert
entities to more smart systems, aimed at advancing in vivo functionality. However, we should …

Metal-free bioorthogonal click chemistry in cancer theranostics

D Wu, K Yang, Z Zhang, Y Feng, L Rao… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioorthogonal chemistry is a powerful tool to site-specifically activate drugs in living systems.
Bioorthogonal reactions between a pair of biologically reactive groups can rapidly and …

Metabolic glycoengineering–exploring glycosylation with bioorthogonal chemistry

M Kufleitner, LM Haiber, V Wittmann - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Glycans are involved in numerous biological recognition events. Being secondary gene
products, their labeling by genetic methods–comparable to GFP labeling of proteins–is not …

Surface-modified bacteria: synthesis, functionalization and biomedical applications

S Lin, F Wu, Y Zhang, H Chen, H Guo… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The past decade has witnessed a great leap forward in bacteria-based living agents,
including imageable probes, diagnostic reagents, and therapeutics, by virtue of their unique …

Biomedical applications of copper-free click chemistry: in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo

E Kim, H Koo - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, click chemistry has provided important advances in biomedical research fields.
Particularly, copper-free click chemistry including strain-promoted azide–alkyne …

Targeting lysosomes in human disease: from basic research to clinical applications

M Cao, X Luo, K Wu, X He - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
In recent years, accumulating evidence has elucidated the role of lysosomes in dynamically
regulating cellular and organismal homeostasis. Lysosomal changes and dysfunction have …

Chemically engineering cells for precision medicine

Y Wang, Z Li, F Mo, TJ Chen-Mayfield, A Saini… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell-based therapy holds great potential to address unmet medical needs and revolutionize
the healthcare industry, as demonstrated by several therapeutics such as CAR-T cell …

Phage-guided modulation of the gut microbiota of mouse models of colorectal cancer augments their responses to chemotherapy

DW Zheng, X Dong, P Pan, KW Chen, JX Fan… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
The microbiota in the human gut is strongly correlated with the progression of colorectal
cancer (CRC) and with therapeutic responses to CRC. Here, by leveraging the higher …