Multifaceted roles of disulfide bonds. Peptides as therapeutics

M Gongora-Benitez, J Tulla-Puche… - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the last century, small-molecule natural products were the main inspiration for most drug
discovery programs based either on high-throughput screening (HTS) or rational design …

Kinetics and mechanisms of thiol–disulfide exchange covering direct substitution and thiol oxidation-mediated pathways

P Nagy - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Disulfides are important building blocks in the secondary and tertiary structures
of proteins, serving as inter-and intra-subunit cross links. Disulfides are also the major …

Efficient preparation of unsymmetrical disulfides by nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling strategy

F Wang, Y Chen, W Rao, L Ackermann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Disulfides are widely found in natural products and find a wide range of applications in life
sciences, materials chemistry and other fields. The preparation of disulfides mainly rely on …

Polysulfurating reagent design for unsymmetrical polysulfide construction

X Xiao, J Xue, X Jiang - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
From life science to material science, to pharmaceutical industry, and to food chemistry,
polysulfides are vital structural scaffolds. However, there are limited synthetic methods for …

Bilateral unsymmetrical disulfurating reagent design for polysulfide construction

Q Yu, X Zhang, X Jiang - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polysulfides are significant compounds in life science, pharmaceutical science, and
materials science. Therefore, polysulfide construction is in great demand. The controllable …

Sulfur–sulfur bond construction

M Wang, X Jiang - Sulfur Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Disulfide, as a common structural motif, has been frequently used in pharmaceuticals, nature
products, and chemical biology. This chapter focuses on the methodologies that were …

Redox‐Regulated Conformational Change of Disulfide‐Rich Assembling Peptides

H Dong, M Wang, S Fan, C Wu, C Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Disulfide bond formation is a common mechanism for regulating conformational changes in
proteins during oxidative folding. Despite extensive studies of the use of multiple disulfide …

Studies of biomolecular conformations and conformational dynamics by mass spectrometry

IA Kaltashov, SJ Eyles - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract I. Introduction 38 A. Protein Conformations and Dynamics 38 B. Protein‐Energy
Landscapes: The Folding Problem and Dynamics in the Native State 38 1. Protein …

Radical substitution provides a unique route to disulfides

Z Wu, DA Pratt - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
Radical substitution on tetrasulfides is demonstrated to be a highly effective means to
prepare unsymmetric disulfides. Alkyl and aryl radicals generated thermally or …

Oxidative protein folding: From thiol–disulfide exchange reactions to the redox poise of the endoplasmic reticulum

DA Hudson, SA Gannon, C Thorpe - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
This review examines oxidative protein folding within the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum
(ER) from an enzymological perspective. In protein disulfide isomerase-first (PDI-first) …