Natural products in cancer therapy: Past, present and future

M Huang, JJ Lu, J Ding - Natural products and bioprospecting, 2021 - Springer
Natural products, with remarkable chemical diversity, have been extensively investigated for
their anticancer potential for more than a half-century. The collective efforts of the community …

Small-molecule probes from bench to bedside: advancing molecular analysis of drug–target interactions toward precision medicine

S Pan, A Ding, Y Li, Y Sun, Y Zhan, Z Ye… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, remarkable advances have been witnessed in the development of
small-molecule probes. These molecular tools have been widely applied for interrogating …

Harnessing the anti-cancer natural product nimbolide for targeted protein degradation

JN Spradlin, X Hu, CC Ward, SM Brittain… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Nimbolide, a terpenoid natural product derived from the Neem tree, impairs cancer
pathogenicity; however, the direct targets and mechanisms by which nimbolide exerts its …

Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (A f BPs) for profiling of enzymes

H Fang, B Peng, SY Ong, Q Wu, L Li, SQ Yao - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a technique that uses highly selective active-site
targeted chemical probes to label and monitor the state of proteins. ABPP integrates the …

Structural simplification of natural products

S Wang, G Dong, C Sheng - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

The role of reversible and irreversible covalent chemistry in targeted protein degradation

H Kiely-Collins, GE Winter, GJL Bernardes - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) that degrade disease-causing proteins by
hijacking the endogenous ubiquitin-proteasome system have emerged as an exciting and …

Triptolide: Medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and clinical progress

W Hou, B Liu, H Xu - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
In the past decades, triptolide has attracted considerable interests in the organic and
medicinal chemistry society owing to its intriguing structure features and promising multiple …

Discovery of highly potent daphnane diterpenoids uncovers importin-β1 as a druggable vulnerability in castration-resistant prostate cancer

JL Huang, XL Yan, W Li, RZ Fan, S Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Importins are overexpressed in many cancers and mediate the abnormal nuclear transport
of oncogenic factors. The druggable potential of importins still remains unclear, largely …

[HTML][HTML] PROTAC derivatization of natural products for target identification and drug discovery: Design of evodiamine-based PROTACs as novel REXO4 degraders

S Chen, K Bi, H Liang, Z Wu, M Huang, X Chen… - Journal of advanced …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Natural products (NPs) play a crucial role in the development of
therapeutic drugs. However, it is still highly challenging to identify the targets of NPs …

Tetrazole‐based probes for integrated phenotypic screening, Affinity‐Based proteome profiling, and sensitive detection of a cancer biomarker

K Cheng, JS Lee, P Hao, SQ Yao, K Ding… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Target‐identification phenotypic screening has been a powerful approach in drug discovery;
however, it is hindered by difficulties in identifying the underlying cellular targets. To address …