Recent advances in targeting the “undruggable” proteins: from drug discovery to clinical trials

X Xie, T Yu, X Li, N Zhang, LJ Foster, C Peng… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Undruggable proteins are a class of proteins that are often characterized by large, complex
structures or functions that are difficult to interfere with using conventional drug design …

Site-selective modification strategies in antibody–drug conjugates

SJ Walsh, JD Bargh, FM Dannheim… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) harness the highly specific targeting capabilities of an
antibody to deliver a cytotoxic payload to specific cell types. They have garnered …

The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

NBD-based synthetic probes for sensing small molecules and proteins: design, sensing mechanisms and biological applications

C Jiang, H Huang, X Kang, L Yang, Z Xi… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Compounds with a nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD) skeleton exhibit prominent useful properties
including environmental sensitivity, high reactivity toward amines and biothiols (including …

Paramagnetic chemical probes for studying biological macromolecules

Q Miao, C Nitsche, H Orton, M Overhand… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic chemical probes have been used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more than four decades. Recent …

Mass spectrometry-based protein footprinting for higher-order structure analysis: fundamentals and applications

XR Liu, MM Zhang, ML Gross - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins adopt different higher-order structures (HOS) to enable their unique biological
functions. Understanding the complexities of protein higher-order structures and dynamics …

Boronic acids as building blocks for the construction of therapeutically useful bioconjugates

JPM António, R Russo, CP Carvalho… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioconjugates are multifunctional constructs in which biomolecules like peptides, proteins,
vitamins and nucleic acids are endowed with the properties of specific payloads. These …

Hybrid small-molecule/protein fluorescent probes

M Minoshima, SI Reja, R Hashimoto, K Iijima… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hybrid small-molecule/protein fluorescent probes are powerful tools for visualizing protein
localization and function in living cells. These hybrid probes are constructed by diverse site …

Advanced imaging and labelling methods to decipher brain cell organization and function

D Choquet, M Sainlos, JB Sibarita - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The brain is arguably the most complex organ. The branched and extended morphology of
nerve cells, their subcellular complexity, the multiplicity of brain cell types as well as their …

Selection of DNA-encoded chemical libraries against endogenous membrane proteins on live cells

Y Huang, L Meng, Q Nie, Y Zhou, L Chen, S Yang… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Membrane proteins on the cell surface perform a myriad of biological functions; however,
ligand discovery for membrane proteins is highly challenging, because a natural cellular …