Cu (I)-catalyzed click chemistry in glycoscience and their diverse applications

AK Agrahari, P Bose, MK Jaiswal, S Rajkhowa… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Copper (I)-catalyzed 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition between organic azides and terminal
alkynes, commonly known as CuAAC or click chemistry, has been identified as one of the …

Cu-catalyzed click reaction in carbohydrate chemistry

VK Tiwari, BB Mishra, KB Mishra, N Mishra… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Cu (I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition (CuAAC), popularly known as the
“click reaction”, serves as the most potent and highly dependable tool for facile construction …

Spacer-free BODIPY fluorogens in antimicrobial peptides for direct imaging of fungal infection in human tissue

L Mendive-Tapia, C Zhao, AR Akram… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Fluorescent antimicrobial peptides are promising structures for in situ, real-time imaging of
fungal infection. Here we report a fluorogenic probe to image Aspergillus fumigatus directly …

Heteroaryl rings in peptide macrocycles

IV Smolyar, AK Yudin, VG Nenajdenko - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This Review is devoted to the chemistry of macrocyclic peptides having heterocyclic
fragments in their structure. These motifs are present in many natural products and synthetic …

Amanitins and their development as a payload for antibody-drug conjugates

A Pahl, C Lutz, T Hechler - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2018 - Elsevier
Amanitin-based ADCs represent a new class of ADCs using a novel mode of action. This
payload introduces a novel mode of action into oncology therapy, the inhibition of RNA …

Synthesis of the death-cap mushroom toxin α-amanitin

K Matinkhoo, A Pryyma, M Todorovic… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
α-Amanitin is an extremely toxic bicyclic octapeptide isolated from the death-cap mushroom,
Amanita phalloides. As a potent inhibitor of RNA polymerase II, α-amanitin is toxic to …

A Convergent Total Synthesis of the Death Cap Toxin α‐Amanitin

MAJ Siegert, CH Knittel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The toxic bicyclic octapeptide α‐amanitin is mostly found in different species of the
mushroom genus Amanita, with the death cap (Amanita phalloides) as one of the most …

Preparation of a Trp-BODIPY fluorogenic amino acid to label peptides for enhanced live-cell fluorescence imaging

L Mendive-Tapia, R Subiros-Funosas, C Zhao… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Fluorescent peptides are valuable tools for live-cell imaging because of the high specificity
of peptide sequences for their biomolecular targets. When preparing fluorescent versions of …

Total Synthesis of α‐and β‐Amanitin

C Lutz, W Simon, S Werner‐Simon… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract α‐Amanitin and related amatoxins have been studied for more than six decades
mostly by isolation from death cap mushrooms. The total synthesis, however, remained …

The Art of Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products via Microwaves

S Majhi - Current Organic Chemistry, 2021 - benthamdirect.com
Natural products are the most effective source of potential drug leads. The total synthesis of
bioactive natural products plays a crucial role in confirming the hypothetical complex …