Selenium chemistry for spatio-selective peptide and protein functionalization

Z Zhao, S Laps, JS Gichtin, N Metanis - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to construct a peptide or protein in a spatio-specific manner is of great interest for
therapeutic and biochemical research. However, the various functional groups present in …

Site-selective photocatalytic functionalization of peptides and proteins at selenocysteine

LJ Dowman, SS Kulkarni, JV Alegre-Requena… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The importance of modified peptides and proteins for applications in drug discovery, and for
illuminating biological processes at the molecular level, is fueling a demand for efficient …

A high-throughput platform for efficient exploration of functional polypeptide chemical space

G Wu, H Zhou, J Zhang, ZY Tian, X Liu, S Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rapid and in-depth exploration of the chemical space of high-molecular-weight synthetic
polypeptides via ring-opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydride allows the discovery of …

Electrochemical modification of polypeptides at selenocysteine

AS Mackay, JWC Maxwell, MJ Bedding… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mild strategies for the selective modification of peptides and proteins are in demand for
applications in therapeutic peptide and protein discovery, and in the study of fundamental …

Organometallic S-arylation Reagents for Rapid PEGylation of Biomolecules

HR Montgomery, MS Messina, EA Doud… - Bioconjugate …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bioconjugation techniques for biomolecule–polymer conjugation are numerous; however,
slow kinetics and steric challenges generally necessitate excess reagents or long reaction …

Peptide and protein cysteine modification enabled by hydrosulfuration of ynamide

C Wang, Z Zhao, R Ghadir, D Yang, Z Zhang… - ACS Central …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Efficient functionalization of peptides and proteins has widespread applications in chemical
biology and drug discovery. However, the chemoselective and site-selective modification of …

Recent advances in chemical protein modification via Cysteine

W Changliu, Z Yongli, Z Junfeng - Chinese Journal of Organic …, 2022 - sioc-journal.cn
Proteins are the most abundant biomolecules in nature and are involved almost in all living
processes. Chemical modification of proteins is an efficient strategy to mediate and study the …

Bioinspired Selenium‐Nitrogen Exchange (SeNEx) Click Chemistry Suitable for Nanomole‐Scale Medicinal Chemistry and Bioconjugation

W Hou, Y Zhang, F Huang, W Chen, Y Gu… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Click chemistry is a powerful molecular assembly strategy for rapid functional discovery. The
development of click reactions with new connecting linkage is of great importance for …

Chemical synthesis of human selenoprotein F and elucidation of its thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase activity

P Liao, H Liu, C He - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Selenoprotein F (SelF) is an endoplasmic reticulum-residing eukaryotic protein that contains
a selenocysteine (Sec) residue. It has been suggested to be involved in a number of …

Copper (ii)-mediated C–H sulphenylation or selenylation of tryptophan enabling macrocyclization of peptides

D Kobayashi, Y Kohmura, J Hayashi… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Cu (II)-mediated C–H sulphenylation or selenylation of Trp indole by a derivative of cysteine
or selenocysteine enables access to the tryptathionine unit or its selenium congener. The …