Curcumin and its derivatives in cancer therapy: Potentiating antitumor activity of cisplatin and reducing side effects

AJ Abadi, S Mirzaei, MK Mahabady… - Phytotherapy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Curcumin is a phytochemical isolated from Curcuma longa with potent tumor‐suppressor
activity, which has shown significant efficacy in pre‐clinical and clinical studies. Curcumin …

Click chemistry in proteomic investigations

CG Parker, MR Pratt - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Despite advances in genetic and proteomic techniques, a complete portrait of the proteome
and its complement of dynamic interactions and modifications remains a lofty, and as of yet …

S-glycosylation-based cysteine profiling reveals regulation of glycolysis by itaconate

W Qin, KE Qin, Y Zhang, W Jia, Y Chen… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Itaconate has been recently recognized as an anti-inflammatory metabolite involved in the
pathogen–macrophage interface. Due to its weak electrophilicity, itaconate could modify …

Chemical proteomics approaches for identifying the cellular targets of natural products

MH Wright, SA Sieber - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 up to 2016 Deconvoluting the mode of action of natural products and drugs
remains one of the biggest challenges in chemistry and biology today. Chemical proteomics …

Recent advances of thiol-selective bioconjugation reactions

P Ochtrop, CPR Hackenberger - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Proteins are the most abundant biomolecules within a cell and are involved in all
biochemical cellular processes, fulfilling specific functions with unmatched precision. This …

A protein functionalization platform based on selective reactions at methionine residues

MT Taylor, JE Nelson, MG Suero, MJ Gaunt - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Nature has a remarkable ability to carry out site-selective post-translational modification of
proteins, therefore enabling a marked increase in their functional diversity. Inspired by this …

Thiol-mediated uptake

Q Laurent, R Martinent, B Lim, AT Pham, T Kato… - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
This Perspective focuses on thiol-mediated uptake, that is, the entry of substrates into cells
enabled by oligochalcogenides or mimics, often disulfides, and inhibited by thiol-reactive …

CysDB: a human cysteine database based on experimental quantitative chemoproteomics

LM Boatner, MF Palafox, DK Schweppe… - Cell Chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Cysteine chemoproteomics provides proteome-wide portraits of the ligandability or potential"
druggability" for thousands of cysteine residues. Consequently, these studies are facilitating …

Cyclic hypervalent iodine reagents for atom‐transfer reactions: beyond trifluoromethylation

Y Li, DP Hari, MV Vita, J Waser - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Hypervalent iodine compounds are privileged reagents in organic synthesis because of their
exceptional reactivity. Among these compounds, cyclic derivatives stand apart because of …

Recent advances in identifying protein targets in drug discovery

J Ha, H Park, J Park, SB Park - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Phenotype-based screening has emerged as an alternative route for discovering new
chemical entities toward first-in-class therapeutics. However, clarifying their mode of action …