Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
146(42), P. 28717 - 28727
Published: Oct. 10, 2024
Naturally,
kinases
exert
their
activities
in
a
highly
regulated
fashion.
A
number
of
ingenious
approaches
have
been
developed
to
artificially
control
kinase
activity
by
external
stimuli,
such
as
the
incorporation
unnatural
amino
acids
or
fusion
additional
protein
domains;
however,
methods
that
directly
modulate
endogenous
native
cells
are
lacking.
Herein,
we
present
facile
and
potent
method
takes
advantage
recent
developments
targeted
covalent
inhibitors
rapid
light-mediated
uncaging
chemistry.
Using
an
important
drug
target,
Bruton's
tyrosine
(BTK),
example,
these
opto-covalent
modulators
successfully
blocked
BTK
after
simple
incubation
washout
steps.
However,
upon
few
minutes
light
irradiation,
was
cleanly
restored,
could
be
again
conventional
inhibitors.
Promisingly,
this
photoactivation
strategy
easily
worked
human
peripheral
blood
mononuclear
(hPBMCs).
Chemical Reviews,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
124(10), P. 6198 - 6270
Published: May 8, 2024
Hybrid
small-molecule/protein
fluorescent
probes
are
powerful
tools
for
visualizing
protein
localization
and
function
in
living
cells.
These
hybrid
constructed
by
diverse
site-specific
chemical
labeling
approaches
through
reactions
to
exogenous
peptide/small
tags,
enzymatic
post-translational
modifications,
bioorthogonal
genetically
incorporated
unnatural
amino
acids,
ligand-directed
reactions.
The
employed
imaging
trafficking,
conformational
changes,
bioanalytes
surrounding
proteins.
In
addition,
facilitate
visualization
of
dynamics
at
the
single-molecule
level
defined
structure
with
super-resolution
imaging.
this
review,
we
discuss
development
bioimaging
applications
based
on
hybrids.
Chemical Reviews,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 7, 2025
The
term
"undruggable"
refers
to
proteins
or
other
biological
targets
that
have
been
historically
challenging
target
with
conventional
drugs
therapeutic
strategies
because
of
their
structural,
functional,
dynamic
properties.
Drugging
such
undruggable
is
essential
develop
new
therapies
for
diseases
where
current
treatment
options
are
limited
nonexistent.
Thus,
investigating
methods
achieve
drugging
an
important
challenge
in
medicinal
chemistry.
Among
the
numerous
methodologies
drug
discovery,
covalent
modification
has
emerged
as
a
transformative
strategy.
attachment
diverse
functional
molecules
provides
powerful
platform
creating
highly
potent
and
chemical
tools
well
ability
provide
valuable
information
on
structures
dynamics
targets.
In
this
review,
we
summarize
recent
examples
biomolecules
development
therapeutics
overcome
discovery
challenges
highlight
how
contribute
toward
particular,
focus
use
chemistry
drugs,
identification,
screening,
artificial
modulation
post-translational
modifications,
cancer
specific
chemotherapies,
nucleic
acid-based
therapeutics.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
44(7), P. 474 - 488
Published: May 30, 2023
The
development
of
small-molecule
inhibitors
or
stabilizers
selected
protein–protein
interactions
(PPIs)
interest
holds
considerable
promise
for
the
research
tools
as
well
candidate
therapeutics.
In
this
context,
covalent
modification
residues
within
target
protein
has
emerged
a
promising
mechanism
action
to
obtain
modulators
PPIs
with
appropriate
selectivity
and
duration
action.
Different
labeling
strategies
are
now
available
that
can
potentially
allow
rational,
ground-up
discovery
optimization
ligands
PPI
stabilizers.
This
review
article
provides
synopsis
recent
developments
applications
such
tactics,
particular
focus
on
site-directed
fragment
tethering
proximity-enabled
approaches.
RSC Chemical Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Development
of
a
novel
fluorescent
probe
for
endogenous
BTK
imaging
using
evobrutinib
as
scaffold.
Evo-2
enabled
real-time
visualisation
dynamics
in
living
cells
while
preserving
its
enzymatic
activity.
Accounts of Chemical Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 11, 2024
ConspectusSelective
chemical
modification
of
endogenous
proteins
in
living
systems
with
synthetic
small
molecular
probes
is
a
central
challenge
biology.
Such
has
variety
applications
important
for
biological
and
pharmaceutical
research,
including
protein
visualization,
functionalization,
proteome-wide
profiling
enzyme
activity,
irreversible
inhibition
activity.
Traditional
chemistry
selective
cells
largely
relies
on
the
high
nucleophilicity
cysteine
residues
to
ensure
target-selectivity
site-specificity
modification.
More
recently,
lysine
residues,
which
are
more
abundant
surfaces,
have
attracted
attention
covalent
proteins.
However,
it
been
difficult
efficiently
modify
ε-amino
groups
side-chains,
mostly
(∼99.9%)
protonated
thus
exhibit
low
at
physiological
pH.
Our
group
revealed
that
Biochemical Journal,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
480(18), P. 1445 - 1457
Published: Sept. 21, 2023
Multicellular
organisms
require
carefully
orchestrated
communication
between
and
within
cell
types
tissues,
many
unicellular
also
sense
their
context
environment,
sometimes
coordinating
responses.
This
review
highlights
contributions
from
chemical
biology
in
discovering
probing
mechanisms
of
cell–cell
communication.
We
focus
on
tools
for
labelling
proteins
a
cellular
how
these
can
be
applied
to
decipher
the
target
receptor
signalling
molecule,
label
interest
situ
understand
its
biology,
provide
read-out
protein
activity
or
interactions
downstream
pathways,
discover
protein–protein
across
interfaces.
Tetrahedron Chem,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11, P. 100088 - 100088
Published: Aug. 1, 2024
While
their
broad
utility
in
various
chemistry
fields
were
well
recognized
for
decades,
fluoroalcohols
have
recently
emerged
as
a
unique
solvent
system
bioconjugation
development.
This
review
describes
examples
and
roles
of
such
trifluoroethanol
(TFE)
hexafluoroisopropanol
(HFIP)
chemical
modification
biomolecules
polypeptides,
nucleic
acids,
saccharides.
Many
processes
facilitated
by
notable
functions
those
proton
shuttle,
reversible
adduct
formation
with
reactive
species,
compatibility
electrochemistry/photochemistry.
The
usefulness
the
fluoroalcohol
solvents
can
be
even
promoted
its
combination
different
reaction
enhancement
protein
stabilization.
collection
transformations
this
is
an
indication
rapid
growth
solvent-assisted
field.