The life of pi star: exploring the exciting and forbidden worlds of the benzophenone photophore

G Dorman, H Nakamura, A Pulsipher… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The widespread applications of benzophenone (BP) photochemistry in biological chemistry,
bioorganic chemistry, and material science have been prominent in both academic and …

Photoaffinity labelling strategies for mapping the small molecule–protein interactome

NR Burton, P Kim, KM Backus - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nearly all FDA approved drugs and bioactive small molecules exert their effects by binding
to and modulating proteins. Consequently, understanding how small molecules interact with …

Activity-based protein profiling: Recent advances in medicinal chemistry

H Deng, Q Lei, Y Wu, Y He, W Li - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) has become an emerging chemical proteomic
approach to illustrate the interaction mechanisms between compounds and proteins. This …

A photoaffinity‐based fragment‐screening platform for efficient identification of protein ligands

EK Grant, DJ Fallon, MM Hann… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in genomic analyses enable the identification of new proteins that are associated
with disease. To validate these targets, tool molecules are required to demonstrate that a …

Getting a grip on glycans: a current overview of the metabolic oligosaccharide engineering toolbox

TJ Sminia, H Zuilhof, T Wennekes - Carbohydrate research, 2016 - Elsevier
This review discusses the advances in metabolic oligosaccharide engineering (MOE) from
2010 to 2016 with a focus on the structure, preparation, and reactivity of its chemical probes …

A photoaffinity displacement assay and probes to study the cyclin‐dependent kinase family

EK Grant, DJ Fallon, HC Eberl… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The CDK family plays a crucial role in the control of the cell cycle. Dysregulation and
mutation of the CDKs has been implicated in cancer and the CDKs have been investigated …

Recent developments and applications of clickable photoprobes in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

DJ Lapinsky, DS Johnson - Future medicinal chemistry, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Photoaffinity labeling is a well-known biochemical technique that has grown significantly
since the turn of the century, principally due to its combination with bioorthogonal/click …

Enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-wortmannin

Y Guo, T Quan, Y Lu, T Luo - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A concise and enantioselective total synthesis of the potent PI3K inhibitor (+)-wortmannin is
described. A Pd-catalyzed cascade reaction was first developed to connect a synthon …

[HTML][HTML] Proof of concept: Pull down assay using bovine serum albumin and an immunomodulator small molecule

Y Tabana, CH Lin, D Babu, R Siva‐Piragasam… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in use of small molecules for
immunomodulation. The affinity-based pull-down purification is an essential tool for target …

Chemical proteomics of host–microbe interactions

MH Wright - Proteomics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamic proteome plays numerous roles in the interactions of microbes—whether they
are invading pathogens or symbiotic organisms—and their hosts. Host and microbe sense …