Chemical and enzymatic methods for post-translational protein–protein conjugation

RJ Taylor, MB Geeson, T Journeaux… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fusion proteins play an essential role in the biosciences but suffer from several key
limitations, including the requirement for N-to-C terminal ligation, incompatibility of …

Development and applications of the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) as a bioorthogonal reaction

L Li, Z Zhang - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
The emergence of bioorthogonal reactions has greatly broadened the scope of biomolecule
labeling and detecting. Of all the bioorthogonal reactions that have been developed, the …

Experimental evidence for the involvement of dinuclear alkynylcopper (I) complexes in alkyne–azide chemistry

BR Buckley, SE Dann, H Heaney - Chemistry–A European …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Dinuclear alkynylcopper (I) ladderane complexes are prepared by a robust and simple
protocol involving the reduction of Cu2 (OH) 3OAc or Cu (OAc) 2 by easily oxidised alcohols …

MicroPET Imaging of CD13 Expression Using a 64Cu-Labeled Dimeric NGR Peptide Based on Sarcophagine Cage

G Li, X Wang, S Zong, J Wang, PS Conti… - Molecular …, 2014 - ACS Publications
CD13 receptor as a tumor vasculature biomarker has attracted great attention in cancer
research. Through phage display screening, NGR-containing peptides have been …

Enhancing nitrite reductase activity of modified hemoglobin: bis-tetramers and their PEGylated derivatives

FE Lui, R Kluger - Biochemistry, 2009 - ACS Publications
The clinical evaluation of stabilized tetrameric hemoglobin as alternatives to red cells
revealed that the materials caused significant increases in blood pressure and related …

Efficient formation of hemoglobin bis-tetramers via selective acetylation of α-subunit amino groups by methyl acetyl phosphate

Y Kim, R Kluger - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical cross-linking of human adult hemoglobin (Hb) prevents dissociation of the
tetrameric (αβ) 2 protein into its constituent non-functional αβ dimers when present outside …

Self-assembled nanoparticles based on cyclodextrin-modified pullulan: Synthesis, and structural characterization using SAXS

JS Diget, R Lund, B Nyström, V Wintgens, C Amiel… - Carbohydrate …, 2019 - Elsevier
Synthesis of novel host-guest functionalized polymers is presented along with structural
characterization using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) of the resulting nanoparticles …

Synthesis of a trimeric gp120 epitope mimic conjugated to a T-helper peptide to improve antigenicity

JG Schellinger, LM Danan-Leon, JA Hoch… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A fully synthetic trivalent mimotope of gp120 conjugated to pan allelic HLA DR binding
epitope was prepared using solid-phase peptide synthesis and optimized copper-catalyzed …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient conversion of hemoglobin to a non-vasoactive oxygen carrier by site-specific cross-linking with azido acyl methyl phosphates followed by bio …

Y Kim, LL Huang, N Wu, R Kluger - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
While cross-linked hemoglobin tetramers are functional acellular oxygen carriers, their
ability to scavenge endogenous nitric oxide (NO) by endothelial pore penetration results in …

Cross‐linked hemoglobin bis‐tetramers from bioorthogonal coupling do not induce vasoconstriction in the circulation

A Wang, S Singh, B Yu, DB Bloch, WM Zapol… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Hemoglobin‐based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) are potential alternatives to
red blood cells in transfusions. Clinical trials using early versions of HBOCs noted adverse …