Visible-to-NIR-light activated release: from small molecules to nanomaterials

R Weinstain, T Slanina, D Kand, P Klan - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

Photoresponsive molecular tools for emerging applications of light in medicine

IM Welleman, MWH Hoorens, BL Feringa… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Light-based therapeutic and imaging modalities, which emerge in clinical applications, rely
on molecular tools, such as photocleavable protecting groups and photoswitches that …

Controlling the covalent reactivity of a kinase inhibitor with light

M Reynders, A Chaikuad, BT Berger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent kinase inhibitors account for some of the most successful drugs that have recently
entered the clinic and many others are in preclinical development. A common strategy is to …

Photopharmacological manipulation of mammalian CRY1 for regulation of the circadian clock

D Kolarski, S Miller, T Oshima, Y Nagai… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
CRY1 and CRY2 proteins are highly conserved components of the circadian clock that
controls daily physiological rhythms. Disruption of CRY functions are related to many …

Predicting wavelength-dependent photochemical reactivity and selectivity

JP Menzel, BB Noble, JP Blinco… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Predicting the conversion and selectivity of a photochemical experiment is a conceptually
different challenge compared to thermally induced reactivity. Photochemical transformations …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacological interventions to circadian clocks and their molecular bases

S Miller, T Hirota - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Daily physiological rhythms are regulated by the body's internal timekeeper known as the
circadian clock. Expression, post-translational modification, and degradation of clock …

Decarboxylative alkyl coupling promoted by NADH and blue light

R Chowdhury, Z Yu, ML Tong… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoexcited dihydronicotinamides like NADH and analogues have been found to generate
alkyl radicals upon reductive decarboxylation of redox-active esters without auxiliary …

Reverse Engineering Caged Compounds: Design Principles for their Application in Biology

GCR Ellis‐Davies - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Light passes through biological tissue, and so it is used for imaging biological processes in
situ. Such observation is part of the very essence of science, but mechanistic understanding …

A High‐Quality Photoswitchable Probe That Selectively and Potently Regulates the Transcription Factor RORγ

M Reynders, S Willems, JA Marschner… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Retinoic acid receptor‐related orphan receptor γ (RORγ) is a nuclear hormone receptor with
multiple biological functions in circadian clock regulation, inflammation, and immunity. Its …

Phosphorylation and circadian molecular timing

A Brenna, U Albrecht - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Endogenous circadian rhythms are biological processes generated by an internal body
clock. They are self-sustaining, and they govern biochemical and physiological processes …