Small-molecule fluorescent probes for live-cell super-resolution microscopy

L Wang, MS Frei, A Salim… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool to visualize biomolecules and
cellular structures at the nanometer scale. Employing these techniques in living cells has …

Cellular incorporation of unnatural amino acids and bioorthogonal labeling of proteins

K Lang, JW Chin - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the past 15 years, there have been rapid developments in the ability to cotranslationally
incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins produced in cells, both at defined sites via …

Functionalizing nanoparticles with biological molecules: developing chemistries that facilitate nanotechnology

KE Sapsford, WR Algar, L Berti, KB Gemmill… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Bioorthogonal chemistry: fishing for selectivity in a sea of functionality

EM Sletten, CR Bertozzi - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The study of biomolecules in their native environments is a challenging task because of the
vast complexity of cellular systems. Technologies developed in the last few years for the …

Maleimide–thiol adducts stabilized through stretching

W Huang, X Wu, X Gao, Y Yu, H Lei, Z Zhu, Y Shi… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Maleimide–thiol reactions are widely used to produce protein–polymer conjugates for
therapeutics. However, maleimide–thiol adducts are unstable in vivo or in the presence of …

Chemistry in living systems

JA Prescher, CR Bertozzi - Nature chemical biology, 2005 - nature.com
Dissecting complex cellular processes requires the ability to track biomolecules as they
function within their native habitat. Although genetically encoded tags such as GFP are …

The phosphopantetheinyl transferases: catalysis of a post-translational modification crucial for life

J Beld, EC Sonnenschein, CR Vickery, JP Noel… - Natural product …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2013 Although holo-acyl carrier protein synthase, AcpS, a
phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase), was characterized in the 1960s, it was not until …

Genetically encoded norbornene directs site-specific cellular protein labelling via a rapid bioorthogonal reaction

K Lang, L Davis, J Torres-Kolbus, C Chou, A Deiters… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The site-specific incorporation of bioorthogonal groups via genetic code expansion provides
a powerful general strategy for site-specifically labelling proteins with any probe. However …

Polymerization in living organisms

D Wu, J Lei, Z Zhang, F Huang, M Buljan… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Vital biomacromolecules, such as RNA, DNA, polysaccharides and proteins, are
synthesized inside cells via the polymerization of small biomolecules to support and multiply …

Engineering live cell surfaces with functional polymers via cytocompatible controlled radical polymerization

J Niu, DJ Lunn, A Pusuluri, JI Yoo, MA O'Malley… - Nature Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
The capability to graft synthetic polymers onto the surfaces of live cells offers the potential to
manipulate and control their phenotype and underlying cellular processes. Conventional …