DNA‐Encoded Libraries: Towards Harnessing their Full Power with Darwinian Evolution

M Dockerill, N Winssinger - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA‐encoded library (DEL) technologies are transforming the drug discovery process,
enabling the identification of ligands at unprecedented speed and scale. DEL makes use of …

Visible light photoredox catalysis using ruthenium complexes in chemical biology

S Angerani, N Winssinger - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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A mating mechanism to generate diversity for the Darwinian selection of DNA-encoded synthetic molecules

BR Vummidi, L Farrera-Soler, JP Daguer… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
DNA-encoded library technologies enable the screening of synthetic molecules but have
thus far not tapped into the power of Darwinian selection with iterative cycles of selection …

Selective, modular probes for thioredoxins enabled by rational tuning of a unique disulfide structure motif

JG Felber, L Zeisel, L Poczka, K Scholzen… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Specialized cellular networks of oxidoreductases coordinate the dithiol/disulfide-exchange
reactions that control metabolism, protein regulation, and redox homeostasis. For probes to …

Emerging applications of peptide–oligonucleotide conjugates: bioactive scaffolds, self-assembling systems, and hybrid nanomaterials

T MacCulloch, A Buchberger… - Organic & biomolecular …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide–oligonucleotide conjugates (POCs) are covalent constructs that link a molecule like
DNA to a synthetic peptide sequences. These materials merge the programmable self …

Perspectives on conformationally constrained peptide nucleic acid (PNA): insights into the structural design, properties and applications

C Suparpprom, T Vilaivan - RSC Chemical Biology, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide nucleic acid or PNA is a synthetic DNA mimic that contains a sequence of
nucleobases attached to a peptide-like backbone derived from N-2-aminoethylglycine. The …

A minimal hybridization chain reaction (HCR) system using peptide nucleic acids

KT Kim, S Angerani, N Winssinger - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The HCR represents a powerful tool for amplification in DNA-based circuitry and sensing
applications, yet requires the use of long DNA sequences to grant hairpin metastability. Here …

Functional proteins from short peptides: Dayhoff's hypothesis turns 50

ML Romero Romero, A Rabin… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins are unlikely to have emerged as the large, complex globular forms we know today.
First, the primordial protein synthesis machinery would inevitably have been inefficient, and …

DNA-scaffolded synergistic catalysis

EB Pimentel, TM Peters-Clarke, JJ Coon… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report DNA-scaffolded synergistic catalysis, a concept that combines the diverse
reaction scope of synergistic catalysis with the ability of DNA to precisely preorganize abiotic …

Selective cellular probes for mammalian thioredoxin reductase TrxR1: rational design of RX1, a modular 1, 2-thiaselenane redox probe

L Zeisel, JG Felber, KC Scholzen, L Poczka, D Cheff… - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
Quantifying the activity of key cellular redox players is crucial for understanding
physiological homeostasis and for targeting their perturbed states in pathologies, including …