Polyoxometalates as potential artificial enzymes toward biological applications

B Li, X Xu, Y Lv, Z Wu, L He, YF Song - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial enzymes, as alternatives to natural enzymes, have attracted enormous attention in
the fields of catalysis, biosensing, diagnostics, and therapeutics because of their high …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in N-and C-terminus cysteine protein bioconjugation

RJ Spears, V Chudasama - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Advances in the site-specific chemical modification of proteins, also referred to as protein
bioconjugation, have proved instrumental in revolutionary approaches to designing new …

Oxidation and phenolysis of peptide/protein C-terminal hydrazides afford salicylaldehyde ester surrogates for chemical protein synthesis

S Lin, Z Mo, P Wang, C He - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the growing popularity of serine/threonine ligation (STL) and cysteine/penicillamine
ligation (CPL) in chemical protein synthesis, facile and general approaches for the …

Encouraging solution to the problem of synthesizing protein α‐thioester

X Liu, Z Gao, J Zhao, F Ye, P Huang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Expressed protein ligation (EPL) provides a powerful tool to
access large‐size proteins with precise structures. Existing methods for constructing the …

Recent advances in glycopeptide and glycoprotein synthesis: a refined synthetic probe towards the biological world

H Zhuang, H Hao, Y Qiu, J Gan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Protein glycosylation is the most complex and diverse form of
post‐translational modification in human body. Meanwhile, glycosylation of peptides and …

Uncovering a Latent Bioactive Interleukin‐6 Glycoform

Y Liu, Y Maki, R Okamoto, A Satoh… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A bioinspired semisynthesis of human‐interleukin‐6 bearing N‐glycan at Asn143
(143glycosyl‐IL‐6) was performed by intentional glycosylation effects and protein folding …

Facile incorporation of non-canonical heme ligands in myoglobin through chemical protein synthesis

K Yi, P Wang, C He - Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The incorporation of non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) into the metal coordination
environments of proteins has endowed metalloproteins with enhanced properties and novel …

Light-Controlled Traceless Protein Labeling via Decaging Thio-o-naphthoquinone Methide Chemistry

H Yu, S Wang, J Huang, Y Fu, M Wagner, T Weil… - Organic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the molecular design of a novel multifunctional reagent and its application for light-
controlled selective protein labeling. This molecule integrates functions of protein–ligand …

Repurposing Amide Bond-Forming Enzymes for Non-native Protein Modification

T Zhu, B Wu - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Site-specific protein modification techniques have led to breakthroughs across diverse
fields, such as cell imaging, proteomics, biomaterials, and pharmaceutical protein and …

Thioproline-Based Oxidation Strategy for Direct Preparation of N-Terminal Thiazolidine-Containing Peptide Thioesters from Peptide Hydrazides

XC Wan, WJ Zhu, Y Chen, ZH Cui, H Zhang… - Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We describe a simple and robust oxidation strategy for preparing N-terminal thiazolidine-
containing peptide thioesters from peptide hydrazides. We find for the first time that l …