Native chemical ligation and extended methods: mechanisms, catalysis, scope, and limitations

V Agouridas, O El Mahdi, V Diemer, M Cargoet… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The native chemical ligation reaction (NCL) involves reacting a C-terminal peptide thioester
with an N-terminal cysteinyl peptide to produce a native peptide bond between the two …

Advances in chemical protein modification

O Boutureira, GJL Bernardes - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Chemical protein modification has emerged as an invaluable tool for the development of
modified proteins. The complementary use of both genetic and chemical methods has …

Met1-specific motifs conserved in OTUB subfamily of green plants enable rice OTUB1 to hydrolyse Met1 ubiquitin chains

L Lu, X Zhai, X Li, S Wang, L Zhang, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Linear (Met1-linked) ubiquitination is involved inflammatory and innate immune
signaling. Previous studies have characterized enzymes regulating the addition and …

Chemical protein modification through cysteine

SB Gunnoo, A Madder - ChemBioChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The modification of proteins with non‐protein entities is important for a wealth of
applications, and methods for chemically modifying proteins attract considerable attention …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of modified proteins via functionalization of dehydroalanine

J Dadova, SRG Galan, BG Davis - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Dha in proteins is easily and flexibly accessible under mild conditions.•Dha
reactivity is used in β, γ-C–S/Se/N/C bond-formation and allows 'zero scar'protein …

Site-selective modification of peptide backbones

A Boto, CC González, D Hernández… - Organic Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The site-selective modification of peptide backbones allows an outstanding fine-tuning of
peptide conformation, folding ability, and physico-chemical and biological properties …

Activity‐based probes for the ubiquitin conjugation–deconjugation machinery: new chemistries, new tools, and new insights

DS Hewings, JA Flygare, M Bogyo… - The FEBS journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The reversible post‐translational modification of proteins by ubiquitin and ubiquitin‐like
proteins regulates almost all cellular processes, by affecting protein degradation …

Dehydroamino acids: Chemical multi-tools for late-stage diversification

JW Bogart, AA Bowers - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
α, β-Dehydroamino acids (dhAAs) are noncanonical amino acids that are found in a wide
array of natural products and can be easily installed into peptides and proteins. dhAAs …

Palladium prompted on-demand cysteine chemistry for the synthesis of challenging and uniquely modified proteins

M Jbara, S Laps, M Morgan, G Kamnesky… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Organic chemistry allows for the modification and chemical preparation of protein analogues
for various studies. The thiolate side chain of the Cys residue has been a key functionality in …

Chemically induced vinylphosphonothiolate electrophiles for thiol–thiol bioconjugations

AL Baumann, S Schwagerus, K Broi… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Herein we introduce vinylphosphonothiolates as a new class of cysteine-selective
electrophiles for protein labeling and the formation of stable protein–protein conjugates. We …