Bioconjugation with maleimides: a useful tool for chemical biology

JMJM Ravasco, H Faustino, A Trindade… - … –A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Maleimide chemistry stands out in the bioconjugation toolbox by virtue of its synthetic
accessibility, excellent reactivity, and practicability. The second‐generation of clinically …

Principles in the design of ligand-targeted cancer therapeutics and imaging agents

M Srinivasarao, CV Galliford, PS Low - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Most cancer drugs are designed to interfere with one or more events in cell proliferation or
survival. As healthy cells may also need to proliferate and avoid apoptosis, anticancer …

Playing with the molecules of life

DD Young, PG Schultz - ACS chemical biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Our understanding of the complex molecular processes of living organisms at the molecular
level is growing exponentially. This knowledge, together with a powerful arsenal of tools for …

Revisiting immunotherapy: a focus on prostate cancer

HR Cha, JH Lee, S Ponnazhagan - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Therapeutic interventions to harness the immune system against tumor cells have provided
mixed results in the past for several solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. However …

Versatile strategy for controlling the specificity and activity of engineered T cells

JSY Ma, JY Kim, SA Kazane, S Choi… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The adoptive transfer of autologous T cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen
receptor (CAR) has emerged as a promising cancer therapy. Despite impressive clinical …

Genetic code expansion: inception, development, commercialization

M Manandhar, E Chun… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Virtually all natural proteins are built from only 20 amino acids, and while this makes
possible all the functions they perform, the ability to encode other amino acids selected for …

Towards the next generation of biomedicines by site-selective conjugation

QY Hu, F Berti, R Adamo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioconjugates represent an emerging class of medicines, which offer therapeutic
opportunities overtaking those of the individual components. Many novel bioconjugates …

Site-specific antibody conjugation with payloads beyond cytotoxins

Q Zhou - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
As antibody–drug conjugates have become a very important modality for cancer therapy,
many site-specific conjugation approaches have been developed for generating …

Template-directed covalent conjugation of DNA to native antibodies, transferrin and other metal-binding proteins

CB Rosen, ALB Kodal, JS Nielsen, DH Schaffert… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
DNA–protein conjugates are important in bioanalytical chemistry, molecular diagnostics and
bionanotechnology, as the DNA provides a unique handle to identify, functionalize or …

DNA origami‐enabled engineering of ligand–drug conjugates for targeted drug delivery

Z Ge, L Guo, G Wu, J Li, Y Sun, Y Hou, J Shi, S Song… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Effective drug delivery systems that can systematically and selectively transport payloads to
disease cells remain a challenge. Here, a targeting ligand‐modified DNA origami …