Emerging and re-emerging warheads for targeted covalent inhibitors: applications in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

M Gehringer, SA Laufer - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs) are designed to bind poorly conserved amino acids by
means of reactive groups, the so-called warheads. Currently, targeting noncatalytic cysteine …

Kinase inhibitors: the road ahead

FM Ferguson, NS Gray - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathways have been successfully targeted to inhibit
proliferation and angiogenesis for cancer therapy. However, kinase deregulation has been …

Selective covalent targeting of GPX4 using masked nitrile-oxide electrophiles

JK Eaton, L Furst, RA Ruberto, D Moosmayer… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
We recently described glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) as a promising target for killing
therapy-resistant cancer cells via ferroptosis. The onset of therapy resistance by multiple …

Advances in covalent kinase inhibitors

A Abdeldayem, YS Raouf, SN Constantinescu… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, covalent kinase inhibitors (CKI) have seen a resurgence in drug
discovery. Covalency affords a unique set of advantages as well as challenges relative to …

Redox signaling by reactive electrophiles and oxidants

S Parvez, MJC Long, JR Poganik, Y Aye - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The concept of cell signaling in the context of nonenzyme-assisted protein modifications by
reactive electrophilic and oxidative species, broadly known as redox signaling, is a uniquely …

10 years into the resurgence of covalent drugs

E De Vita - Future Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the first decade of targeted covalent inhibition, scientists have successfully reversed the
previous trend that had impeded the use of covalent inhibition in drug development …

The taxonomy of covalent inhibitors

A Tuley, W Fast - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Covalent enzyme inhibitors are widely applied as biochemical tools and therapeutic agents.
As a complement to categorization of these inhibitors by reactive group or modification site …

Tunable methacrylamides for covalent ligand directed release chemistry

RN Reddi, E Resnick, A Rogel, BV Rao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Targeted covalent inhibitors are an important class of drugs and chemical probes. However,
relatively few electrophiles meet the criteria for successful covalent inhibitor design. Here we …

Emerging and Re-emerging Warheads for Targeted Covalent Inhibitors: An Update

L Hillebrand, XJ Liang, RAM Serafim… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent inhibitors and other types of covalent modalities have seen a revival in the past two
decades, with a variety of new targeted covalent drugs having been approved in recent …

Selectively targeting the kinome-conserved lysine of PI3Kδ as a general approach to covalent kinase inhibition

SE Dalton, L Dittus, DA Thomas… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Selective covalent inhibition of kinases by targeting poorly conserved cysteines has proven
highly fruitful to date in the development of chemical probes and approved drugs. However …