Emerging and re-emerging warheads for targeted covalent inhibitors: applications in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

M Gehringer, SA Laufer - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs) are designed to bind poorly conserved amino acids by
means of reactive groups, the so-called warheads. Currently, targeting noncatalytic cysteine …

Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X Xiao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

Metabolic hallmarks of hepatic stellate cells in liver fibrosis

O Khomich, AV Ivanov, B Bartosch - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Liver fibrosis is a regenerative process that occurs after injury. It is characterized by the
deposition of connective tissue by specialized fibroblasts and concomitant proliferative …

Cysteine oxidation in proteins: structure, biophysics, and simulation

D Garrido Ruiz, A Sandoval-Perez, AV Rangarajan… - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cysteine side chains can exist in distinct oxidation states depending on the pH and redox
potential of the environment, and cysteine oxidation plays important yet complex regulatory …

The chronological evolution of small organic molecular fluorescent probes for thiols

Y Yue, F Huo, C Yin - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Abnormal concentrations of biothiols such as cysteine, homocysteine and glutathione are
associated with various major diseases. In biological systems, the structural similarity and …

Thiol-based oxidative posttranslational modifications (OxiPTMs) of plant proteins

FJ Corpas, S Gonzalez-Gordo… - Plant and Cell …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The thiol group of cysteine (Cys) residues, often present in the active center of the protein, is
of particular importance to protein function, which is significantly determined by the redox …

Plant thiol peroxidases as redox sensors and signal transducers in abiotic stress acclimation

L Vogelsang, KJ Dietz - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial patterns of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells and tissues
decisively determine the plant acclimation response to diverse abiotic and biotic stresses …

Click-derived multifunctional metal complexes for diverse applications

MG Ahmad, MM Balamurali, K Chanda - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The Click reaction that involves Cu (I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) serves
as the most potent and highly dependable tool for the development of many complex …

Susceptibility of protein therapeutics to spontaneous chemical modifications by oxidation, cyclization, and elimination reactions

L Grassi, C Cabrele - Amino Acids, 2019 - Springer
Peptides and proteins are preponderantly emerging in the drug market, as shown by the
increasing number of biopharmaceutics already approved or under development …

Oxidation-induced “one-pot” click chemistry

B Albada, JF Keijzer, H Zuilhof, F van Delft - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Click chemistry has been established rapidly as one of the most valuable methods for the
chemical transformation of complex molecules. Due to the rapid rates, clean conversions to …