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 …

Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications

LK McKenzie, R El-Khoury, JD Thorpe… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While Nature harnesses RNA and DNA to store, read and write genetic information, the
inherent programmability, synthetic accessibility and wide functionality of these nucleic acids …

Inverse electron demand Diels–Alder reactions in chemical biology

BL Oliveira, Z Guo, GJL Bernardes - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The emerging inverse electron demand Diels–Alder (IEDDA) reaction stands out from other
bioorthogonal reactions by virtue of its unmatchable kinetics, excellent orthogonality and …

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 …

Evolution of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase: From methanogenesis to genetic code expansion

NG Koch, N Budisa - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 20 years ago, the pyrrolysine encoding translation system was discovered in specific
archaea. Our Review provides an overview of how the once obscure pyrrolysyl-tRNA …

Visualizing the disordered nuclear transport machinery in situ

M Yu, M Heidari, S Mikhaleva, PS Tan, S Mingu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The approximately 120 MDa mammalian nuclear pore complex (NPC) acts as a gatekeeper
for the transport between the nucleus and cytosol. The central channel of the NPC is filled …

Cracking the code: reprogramming the genetic script in prokaryotes and eukaryotes to harness the power of noncanonical amino acids

C Jann, S Giofré, R Bhattacharjee, EA Lemke - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in the last two
decades. Incorporating these noncanonical amino acids into proteins enables many …

Photoswitching fingerprint analysis bypasses the 10-nm resolution barrier

DA Helmerich, G Beliu, D Taban, M Meub, M Streit… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in super-resolution microscopy have demonstrated single-molecule localization
precisions of a few nanometers. However, translation of such high localization precisions …

Engineering pyrrolysine systems for genetic code expansion and reprogramming

DL Dunkelmann, JW Chin - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past 16 years, genetic code expansion and reprogramming in living organisms has
been transformed by advances that leverage the unique properties of pyrrolysyl-tRNA …

Designer membraneless organelles enable codon reassignment of selected mRNAs in eukaryotes

CD Reinkemeier, GE Girona, EA Lemke - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ability to engineer translation of noncanonical (unnatural) amino acids
(ncAAs) site-specifically into proteins in living cells greatly expands the chemical space that …