Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and its applications in chemical biology, diagnostics, and therapeutics

J Saarbach, PM Sabale, N Winssinger - Current opinion in chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) stands as one of the most successful artificial oligonucleotide
mimetics. Salient features include the stability of hybridization complexes (either as …

Interrogating biological systems using visible-light-powered catalysis

KA Ryu, CM Kaszuba, NB Bissonnette… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Light-powered catalysis has found broad utility as a chemical transformation strategy, with
widespread impact on energy, environment, drug discovery and human health. A noteworthy …

Transition metal catalysis in living cells: progress, challenges, and novel supramolecular solutions

CC James, B de Bruin, JNH Reek - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of transition metal catalysis is exemplified by its wide range of applications,
for example in the synthesis of chemicals, natural products, and pharmaceuticals. However …

Single-chain nanoparticle delivers a partner enzyme for concurrent and tandem catalysis in cells

J Chen, K Li, JSL Shon… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Combining synthetic chemistry and biocatalysis is a promising but underexplored approach
to intracellular catalysis. We report a strategy to codeliver a single-chain nanoparticle …

A cell-penetrating artificial metalloenzyme regulates a gene switch in a designer mammalian cell

Y Okamoto, R Kojima, F Schwizer, E Bartolami… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Complementing enzymes in their native environment with either homogeneous or
heterogeneous catalysts is challenging due to the sea of functionalities present within a cell …

A kinetic and fluorogenic enhancement strategy for labeling of nucleic acids

MO Loehr, NW Luedtke - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical modification of nucleic acids in living cells can be sterically hindered by tight
packing of bioorthogonal functional groups in chromatin. To address this limitation, we report …

In vivo catalyzed new-to-nature reactions

JG Rebelein, TR Ward - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Bioorthogonal chemistry largely relies on the use of abiotic metals to catalyze new-to-nature
reactions in living systems. Over the past decade, metal complexes and metal-encapsulated …

[HTML][HTML] Bioorthogonal strategies for the in vivo synthesis or release of drugs

B Lozhkin, TR Ward - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
The site-specific delivery of antitumor agents is a rapidly developing field that relies on
prodrug activation and uncaging strategies. For this purpose, a wide range of homogeneous …

Visible light photoredox catalysis using ruthenium complexes in chemical biology

S Angerani, N Winssinger - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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Dissociative bioorthogonal reactions

J Tu, M Xu, RM Franzini - ChemBioChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bioorthogonal reactions that proceed readily under physiological conditions without
interference from biomolecules have found widespread application in the life sciences …