Leveraging ligand affinity and properties: discovery of novel benzamide-type cereblon binders for the design of PROTACs

C Steinebach, A Bricelj, A Murgai, I Sosic… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Immunomodulatory imide drugs (IMiDs) such as thalidomide, pomalidomide, and
lenalidomide are the most common cereblon (CRBN) recruiters in proteolysis-targeting …

Light-Controlled Intracellular Synthesis of Poly (luciferin) Polymers Induces Cell Paraptosis

SY Dai, Z Xiao, F Shen, I Lim, J Rao - Journal of the American …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Accumulation of misfolded proteins challenges cellular proteostasis and is implicated in
aging and chronic disorders. Cancer cells, moreover, face an elevated level of basal …

Biosynthesis and genetic encoding of activated nitriles for fast protein conjugation and tunable fluorogenic labeling

EH Abdelkader, H Qianzhu, G Otting, T Huber - Chem, 2025 - cell.com
Few chemistries are suitable for in-cell protein labeling, and the required reagents are
costly. We present an approach for the coupled biosynthesis and genetic encoding of …

Solid-Phase Synthesis of Caged Luminescent Peptides via Side Chain Anchoring

D Sondag, JJA Heming, DWPM Lowik… - Bioconjugate …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of caged luminescent peptide substrates remains challenging, especially
when libraries of the substrates are required. Most currently available synthetic methods rely …

The cyanopyridine–aminothiol click reaction: expanding horizons in chemical biology

C Nitsche - Synlett, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Bioorthogonal reactions hold significant promise for applications in chemical biology.
Despite their potential, nitriles have often been overlooked as reactive functional groups for …

2-cyanopyridine derivatives enable N-terminal cysteine bioconjugation and peptide bond cleavage of glutathione under aqueous and mild conditions

T Yano, T Yamada, H Isida, N Ohashi, T Itoh - RSC advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the chemical reactivity of apalutamide, we have developed an efficient method
for N-terminal cysteine bioconjugation with 2-cyanopyridine derivatives. Systematic …

Synthesis and biochemical evaluation of new 3-amido-4-substituted monocyclic ß-lactams as inhibitors of penicillin-binding protein (s)

K Grabrijan, N Strašek Benedik, A Krajnc… - Acta …, 2024 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak In the final phases of bacterial cell wall synthesis, penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs)
catalyze the cross-linking of peptidoglycan. For many decades, effective and non-toxic β …

Glutathione in the noncanonical biosynthesis of teredinibactins

Y Sung, B Miller, E Schmidt - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Teredinibactins are ß-resorcyclic thiazoline dipeptides synthesized by Teredinibacter
turnerae T7901, a bacterial symbiont of shipworms in the sea. Through feeding studies, we …