Bioorthogonal chemistry

SL Scinto, DA Bilodeau, R Hincapie, W Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal chemistry represents a class of high-yielding chemical reactions that proceed
rapidly and selectively in biological environments without side reactions towards …

Copper‐free click chemistry: applications in drug delivery, cell Tracking, and tissue engineering

HY Yoon, D Lee, DK Lim, H Koo, K Kim - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, organic chemical reactions require organic solvents, toxic catalysts, heat, or
high pressure. However, copper‐free click chemistry has been shown to have favorable …

Developing bioorthogonal probes to span a spectrum of reactivities

SS Nguyen, JA Prescher - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Bioorthogonal chemistries enable researchers to interrogate biomolecules in living systems.
These reactions are highly selective and biocompatible, and can be performed in many …

Strain-promoted 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of cycloalkynes and organic azides

J Dommerholt, FPJT Rutjes, FL van Delft - Cycloadditions in Bioorthogonal …, 2016 - Springer
A nearly forgotten reaction discovered more than 60 years ago—the cycloaddition of a cyclic
alkyne and an organic azide, leading to an aromatic triazole—enjoys a remarkable …

From mechanism to mouse: a tale of two bioorthogonal reactions

EM Sletten, CR Bertozzi - Accounts of chemical research, 2011 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal reactions are chemical reactions that neither interact with nor interfere with a
biological system. The participating functional groups must be inert to biological moieties …

To view your biomolecule, click inside the cell

V Rigolot, C Biot, C Lion - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The surging development of bioorthogonal chemistry has profoundly transformed chemical
biology over the last two decades. Involving chemical partners that specifically react together …

Preventing thiol-yne addition improves the specificity of strain-promoted azide–alkyne cycloaddition

R van Geel, GJM Pruijn, FL van Delft… - Bioconjugate …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides with ring-strained alkynes is one of the few
bioorthogonal reactions suitable for specific biomolecule labeling in complex biological …

Cell surface-localized imaging and sensing

HR Jia, YX Zhu, QY Duan, FG Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Systematically dissecting the molecular basis of the cell surface as well as its related
biological activities is considered as one of the most cutting-edge fields in fundamental …

Clicking 1, 2, 4, 5-tetrazine and cyclooctynes with tunable reaction rates

W Chen, D Wang, C Dai, D Hamelberg… - Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Clicking 1,2,4,5-tetrazine and cyclooctynes with tunable reaction rates - Chemical
Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C2CC16716F Royal Society of Chemistry …

Bioorthogonal labelling of biomolecules: new functional handles and ligation methods

MF Debets, JCM van Hest, FPJT Rutjes - Organic & biomolecular …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This review provides a literature overview of bioorthogonal ligation methods for protein
modification, which have largely evolved over the last 15 years. Since 1990, various new …