Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (A f BPs) for profiling of enzymes

H Fang, B Peng, SY Ong, Q Wu, L Li, SQ Yao - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a technique that uses highly selective active-site
targeted chemical probes to label and monitor the state of proteins. ABPP integrates the …

An overview of activity-based probes for glycosidases

L Wu, Z Armstrong, SP Schröder, C de Boer… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Glycosidases carry out many essential functions across all domains of
life.•Activity-based probes can interrogate complex biological samples for glycosidase …

Microbial enzymes induce colitis by reactivating triclosan in the mouse gastrointestinal tract

J Zhang, ME Walker, KZ Sanidad, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging research supports that triclosan (TCS), an antimicrobial agent found in thousands
of consumer products, exacerbates colitis and colitis-associated colorectal tumorigenesis in …

Mechanism-based heparanase inhibitors reduce cancer metastasis in vivo

C de Boer, Z Armstrong, VAJ Lit… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) mediate essential interactions throughout the
extracellular matrix (ECM), providing signals that regulate cellular growth and development …

Plant glycosides and glycosidases: a treasure-trove for therapeutics

K Kytidou, M Artola, HS Overkleeft… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plants contain numerous glycoconjugates that are metabolized by specific
glucosyltransferases and hydrolyzed by specific glycosidases, some also catalyzing …

Opposing functions of heparanase-1 and heparanase-2 in cancer progression

I Vlodavsky, M Gross-Cohen, M Weissmann… - Trends in biochemical …, 2018 - cell.com
Heparanase, the sole heparan sulfate (HS)-degrading endoglycosidase, regulates multiple
biological activities that enhance tumor growth, metastasis, angiogenesis, and inflammation …

Automatically fixing errors in glycoprotein structures with Rosetta

B Frenz, S Rämisch, AJ Borst, AC Walls… - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Recent advances in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) have resulted in
determination of an increasing number of protein structures with resolved glycans. However …

Targeting heparanase in cancer: inhibition by synthetic, chemically modified, and natural compounds

CD Mohan, S Hari, HD Preetham, S Rangappa… - Iscience, 2019 - cell.com
Heparanase is an endoglycosidase involved in remodeling the extracellular matrix and
thereby in regulating multiple cellular processes and biological activities. It cleaves heparan …

From mechanism-based retaining glycosidase inhibitors to activity-based glycosidase profiling

M Artola, JMFG Aerts, GA van der Marel… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is an effective technology for the identification and
functional annotation of enzymes in complex biological samples. ABP designs are normally …

Heparanase: A challenging cancer drug target

DR Coombe, NS Gandhi - Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Heparanase has been viewed as a promising anti-cancer drug target for almost two
decades, but no anti-heparanase therapy has yet reached the clinic. This endoglycosidase …