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 …

Residue-specific peptide modification: a chemist's guide

JN deGruyter, LR Malins, PS Baran - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Advances in bioconjugation and native protein modification are appearing at a blistering
pace, making it increasingly time consuming for practitioners to identify the best chemical …

Injectable, self-healing hydrogel adhesives with firm tissue adhesion and on-demand biodegradation for sutureless wound closure

H Ren, Z Zhang, X Cheng, Z Zou, X Chen, C He - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Tissue adhesives have garnered extensive interest as alternatives and supplements to
sutures, whereas major challenges still remain, including weak tissue adhesion, inadequate …

A proteome-wide atlas of lysine-reactive chemistry

ME Abbasov, ME Kavanagh, TA Ichu, MR Lazear… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in chemical proteomics have begun to characterize the reactivity and
ligandability of lysines on a global scale. Yet, only a limited diversity of aminophilic …

Injectable antibacterial tissue-adhesive hydrogel based on biocompatible o-phthalaldehyde/amine crosslinking for efficient treatment of infected wounds

Z Zou, Z Zhang, H Ren, X Cheng, X Chen, C He - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Injectable antibacterial hydrogels have attracted considerable attention in wound
management. However, the development of injectable hydrogels with excellent antibacterial …

Chemical technology principles for selective bioconjugation of proteins and antibodies

P Chauhan, V Ragendu, M Kumar, R Molla… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins are multifunctional large organic compounds that constitute an essential
component of a living system. Hence, control over their bioconjugation impacts science at …

Chemoselective peptide cyclization and bicyclization directly on unprotected peptides

Y Zhang, Q Zhang, CTT Wong, X Li - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptides are drawing wide attention as potential medium-sized modulators of
biomolecular interactions with large binding surfaces. Simple but effective peptide …

Cell‐active, reversible, and irreversible covalent inhibitors that selectively target the catalytic lysine of BCR‐ABL kinase

P Chen, J Sun, C Zhu, G Tang, W Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent interests in developing lysine‐targeting covalent inhibitors, no general
approach is available to create such compounds. We report herein a general approach to …

Characterization of protein unfolding by fast cross-linking mass spectrometry using di-ortho-phthalaldehyde cross-linkers

JH Wang, YL Tang, Z Gong, R Jain, F Xiao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chemical cross-linking of proteins coupled with mass spectrometry is widely used in protein
structural analysis. In this study we develop a class of non-hydrolyzable amine-selective di …

Recent advances in chemical protein synthesis: method developments and biological applications

S Dong, JS Zheng, Y Li, H Wang, G Chen… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
The central dogma of modern biology underscores the pivotal roles proteins play in diverse
biological processes, the study of which necessitates advanced methods to produce …