Unleashing the power of bond cleavage chemistry in living systems

J Wang, X Wang, X Fan, PR Chen - ACS Central Science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal cleavage chemistry has been rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for
manipulation and gain-of-function studies of biomolecules in living systems. While the initial …

Click and release: bioorthogonal approaches to “on-demand” activation of prodrugs

X Ji, Z Pan, B Yu, LK De La Cruz, Y Zheng… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Prodrug approaches represent an excellent solution to certain pharmaceutical issues
commonly encountered in the drug discovery and development process. Along this line, the …

Gas-mediated cancer bioimaging and therapy

L Chen, SF Zhou, L Su, J Song - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Gas-involving cancer theranostics have attracted considerable attention in recent years due
to their high therapeutic efficacy and biosafety. We have reviewed the recent significant …

Enrichment-triggered prodrug activation demonstrated through mitochondria-targeted delivery of doxorubicin and carbon monoxide

Y Zheng, X Ji, B Yu, K Ji, D Gallo, E Csizmadia… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Controlled activation is a critical component in prodrug development. Here we report a
concentration-sensitive platform approach for bioorthogonal prodrug activation by taking …

Mechanisms and substituent effects of metal-free bioorthogonal reactions

T Deb, J Tu, RM Franzini - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Reactions that occur under physiological conditions find diverse uses in the chemical and
biological sciences. However, the limitations that biological systems place on chemical …

Strategies toward organic carbon monoxide prodrugs

X Ji, B Wang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Carbon monoxide is widely acknowledged as an important gasotransmitter in
the mammalian system with importance on par with that of nitric oxide. It has also been firmly …

Carbon monoxide signaling: examining its engagement with various molecular targets in the context of binding affinity, concentration, and biologic response

Z Yuan, LK De La Cruz, X Yang, B Wang, Q Ma - Pharmacological Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon monoxide (CO) has been firmly established as an endogenous signaling molecule
with a variety of pathophysiological and pharmacological functions, including …

External stimuli-responsive gasotransmitter prodrugs: Chemistry and spatiotemporal release

X Ji, Z Zhong - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Gasotransmitters like nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen sulfide with unique
pleiotropic pharmacological effects in mammals are an emerging therapeutic modality for …

Role of carbon monoxide in host–gut microbiome communication

CP Hopper, LK De La Cruz, KV Lyles… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nature is full of examples of symbiotic relationships. The critical symbiotic relation between
host and mutualistic bacteria is attracting increasing attention to the degree that the gut …

[HTML][HTML] Click chemistry and drug delivery: A bird's-eye view

SM Kondengadan, S Bansal, C Yang, D Liu… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Click chemistry has been proven to be very useful in drug delivery. Due to the availability of
a large number of click reactions with a various characteristics, selection of appropriate …