Cooperative coupling of oxidative organic synthesis and hydrogen production over semiconductor-based photocatalysts

MY Qi, M Conte, M Anpo, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Merging hydrogen (H2) evolution with oxidative organic synthesis in a semiconductor-
mediated photoredox reaction is extremely attractive because the clean H2 fuel and high …

Selective chemical protein modification

CD Spicer, BG Davis - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Chemical modification of proteins is an important tool for probing natural systems, creating
therapeutic conjugates and generating novel protein constructs. Site-selective reactions …

Chemical modification of proteins at cysteine: opportunities in chemistry and biology

JM Chalker, GJL Bernardes, YA Lin… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cys‐tematic modification: Cysteine is a versatile amino acid for selective chemical
modification of proteins. Both chemical and biological innovations made possible by …

Glycoprotein synthesis: an update

DP Gamblin, EM Scanlan, BG Davis - Chemical Reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Aims This review updates our original review on the synthesis of glycoproteins.(1) Its
aims, therefore, are 2-fold: to highlight, first, key developments since 2002 and, second …

Synthesis of N-acyl sulfenamides via copper catalysis and their use as S-sulfenylating reagents of thiols

Z Bai, S Zhu, Y Hu, P Yang, X Chu, G He… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sulfur–heteroatom bonds such as S–S and S–N are found in a variety of natural products
and often play important roles in biological processes. Despite their widespread …

A “tag-and-modify” approach to site-selective protein modification

JM Chalker, GJL Bernardes… - Accounts of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Covalent modification can expand a protein's functional capacity. Fluorescent or radioactive
labeling, for instance, allows imaging of a protein in real time. Labeling with an affinity probe …

Electro‐oxidative S− H/S− H cross‐coupling with hydrogen evolution: facile access to unsymmetrical disulfides

P Huang, P Wang, S Tang, Z Fu, A Lei - Angewandte Chemie, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfur is an essential element because it exists widely in proteins. The disulfide bond is an
important moiety in many different types of significant organic molecules. A new approach …

Mechanistic insights into the interface‐directed transformation of thiols into disulfides and molecular hydrogen by visible‐light irradiation of quantum dots

XB Li, ZJ Li, YJ Gao, QY Meng, S Yu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum dots (QDs) offer new and versatile ways to harvest light energy. However, there
are few examples involving the utilization of QDs in organic synthesis. Visible‐light …

Selenocysteine in proteins—properties and biotechnological use

L Johansson, G Gafvelin, ESJ Arnér - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2005 - Elsevier
Selenocysteine (Sec), the 21st amino acid, exists naturally in all kingdoms of life as the
defining entity of selenoproteins. Sec is a cysteine (Cys) residue analogue with a selenium …

Filled and glycosylated carbon nanotubes for in vivo radioemitter localization and imaging

SY Hong, G Tobias, KT Al-Jamal, B Ballesteros… - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
Functionalization of nanomaterials for precise biomedical function is an emerging trend in
nanotechnology. Carbon nanotubes are attractive as multifunctional carrier systems …