Sense and sensitivity in bioprocessing-detecting cellular metabolites with biosensors.

abstract：:Thrombin is a multifunctional serine protease that plays a primary role in the pathogenic pathway of thrombosis as a consequence of its actions on the two principal components of blood clots, fibrin and activated platelets. Deficiencies in available therapies, heparin and coumadin, have recently led to an intense effo...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ripka WC

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review explores the concept of using privileged scaffolds to identify biologically active compounds through building chemical libraries. We hope to accomplish three main objectives: to provide one of the most comprehensive listings of privileged scaffolds; to reveal through four selected examples the present stat...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Welsch ME,Snyder SA,Stockwell BR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biotin and lipoic acid are two universally conserved cofactors essential for intermediary metabolism, their synthetic pathways have become known only in recent years. Both pathways have unusual features. Biotin synthesis in Escherichia coli requires a methylation that is later removed whereas lipoic acid is a...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Cronan JE

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before large, specific peptides could be made, in an RNA world our ancestors may have used an RNA-like molecule for both catalysis and information storage. Taken together, RNA activities suggest RNA could have performed most of the essential informational functions of an ancient organism (i.e. those functions most sim...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Yarus M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global nitrogen cycle is the process in which different forms of environmental N are interconverted by microorganisms either for assimilation into biomass or in respiratory energy-generating pathways. This short review highlights developments over the last 5 years in our understanding of functionality of nitrogena...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Eady RR,Antonyuk SV,Hasnain SS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the design of synthetic molecules that mimic the structures and functions of epitopes found on the surface of peptides and proteins. Epitope mimetics can provide valuable tools to probe complex biological processes, as well as interesting leads for drug and vaccine discovery. One applicati...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Robinson JA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular oxygen plays an indispensable role as a terminal electron acceptor in the electron transport chain in mitochondria. Acute or chronic oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) in organisms results in various diseases, and the elucidation of the pathogenic mechanism of hypoxia-related diseases and various cellular response...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Tobita S,Yoshihara T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of unactivated C-H bonds is an important process in nature and organic synthesis. Nature employs a wide range of metalloproteins to efficiently catalyze such reactions. Quantum chemistry can be used to explore the reactivity of such systems. Atomic level insight into the catalytic mechanisms can be gained t...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ye S,Neese F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide in vitro selection provides surprisingly specific aptamers to protein targets. Synthetic chemistries for modifying nucleotides have been developed to enhance aptamer binding affinity. The diversity of nucleosides amenable to either triphosphate synthesis or phosphoramidite activation is now sufficientl...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Eaton BE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology offers a bottom-up engineering approach that intends to understand complex systems via design-build-test cycles. Embryonic development comprises complex processes that originate at the level of gene regulatory networks in a cell and emerge into collective cellular behaviors with multicellular forms a...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ebrahimkhani MR,Ebisuya M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of molecular cloning has revealed the phenomenal diversity and complexity of the phosphodiesterase isoenzyme family. Thus, more than 30 human phosphodiesterases are now known; all are apparently necessary for the seemingly simple task of hydrolysing the 3'-ester bond of either cyclic adenosine monophos...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Perry MJ,Higgs GA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, ogliopeptides have enjoyed ever increasing interest in two areas: first, approaches to biomimetic enzyme-like activity; and second, as metal-free catalysts for enantioselective transformations of synthetic interest. The discovery and optimization of peptides for these purposes has often used the metho...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Berkessel A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles of enzyme chemistry, mechanism of action and inhibitor design are being applied to proteomics by the development of activity-based probes. This approach suggests a potentially broad method for interrogating enzyme family members, both known and unknown, in cells and proteomic fractions without the need ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Kozarich JW

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional amino acids that play critical roles in catalysis and regulation are known to display elevated nucleophilicity and can be selectively targeted for covalent modification by reactive electrophiles. Chemical-proteomic platforms, such as activity-based protein profiling (ABPP), exploit this reactivity by utiliz...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Shannon DA,Weerapana E

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are likely more than 500000 potential phosphorylation sites in a cellular proteome. This dynamic phosphorylation is under tight control of a variety of kinases and phosphatases. In recent years significant progress has been made in the large-scale analysis of these in vitro and in vivo protein phosphorylation ev...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Lemeer S,Heck AJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a significant increase in the number of compounds synthesized in early drug-discovery programs with the advances in combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput biological screening efforts. Various in silico, in vitro and in situ approaches have been described in literature that achieve higher throughpu...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Chaturvedi PR,Decker CJ,Odinecs A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of molecular diversity and the development of measures for assessing the similarity or dissimilarity of molecules are central tasks for the design of novel biologically active compounds. Combinatorial chemistry allows the coupling of mathematical optimisation methods that do not require the a priori kno...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Weber L

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex glycans participate in many essential life processes. Studies of glycan-mediated biological events have traditionally employed structurally defined fragments of the more elaborate natural molecules. However, it is now clear that this approach may sometimes be insufficient and this realization has prompted a de...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Lowary TL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aside from the demonstration that individual molecular traits of enzymes can be evolutionarily optimised, the discovery that several traits can be simultaneously optimised is a major advance. The first observations of the effects of evolutionary optimisation at the structural level, through X-ray crystallography, rein...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Sutherland JD

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenesis from trimethylamine, dimethylamine or monomethylamine is initiated by a series of corrinoid-dependent methyltransferases. The non-homologous genes encoding the full-length methyltransferases each possess an in-frame UAG (amber) codon that does not terminate translation. The amber codon is decoded by a d...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Krzycki JA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New catalysts and reaction conditions have been developed for the dynamic kinetic resolution or deracemisation of racemic mixtures of chiral compounds. Specific functional groups that lend themselves particularly well to this approach include chiral secondary alcohols, alpha-amino acids, amines and carboxylic acids. A...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Turner NJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) require multiple assays for analytical and bioanalytical characterization due to their heterogeneous and dynamic nature. These assays can help address questions from the drug-loading distribution following conjugation to exposure-response relationships after dosing in vivo. This review ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Alley SC,Anderson KE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein citrullination is a post-translational modification of arginine that is catalyzed by the Protein Arginine Deiminase (PAD) family of enzymes. Aberrantly increased citrullination is associated with a host of inflammatory diseases and cancer and PAD inhibitors have shown remarkable efficacy in a range of diseases...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Clancy KW,Weerapana E,Thompson PR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugar nucleotide-modifying enzymes of the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase type use transient oxidation-reduction by a tightly bound nicotinamide cofactor as a common strategy of catalysis to promote a diverse set of reactions, including decarboxylation, single- or double-site epimerization, and dehydration. Althou...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Borg AJE,Beerens K,Pfeiffer M,Desmet T,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin, the nucleoprotein complex organizing the genome, is central in regulating gene expression and genome organization. Chromatin conformational dynamics, controlled by histone post-translational modifications (PTM) and effector proteins, play a key role in this regulatory function. Recent developments in chemic...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Boichenko I,Fierz B

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus cycling in the biosphere has traditionally been thought to involve almost exclusively transformations of the element in its pentavalent oxidation state. Recent evidence, however, suggests that a significant fraction of environmental phosphorus may exist in a more reduced form. Most abundant of these reduced...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Chin JP,McGrath JW,Quinn JP

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad range of biochemicals, from proteins to nucleic acids, function properly only when associated with a metal, usually a divalent cation. Not any divalent metal will do: these metals differ in their ionic radius, dissociation in water, ionization potential, and number of unpaired electrons in their outer shells, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Bloom AJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide assortment of caged compounds, which are species whose biological activity can be unleashed with light, have been synthesized and used to investigate a variety of biological phenomena. In contrast, the construction of caged proteins and their application to biological systems has lagged far behind. Recent advan...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Curley K,Lawrence DS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) provide a powerful tool towards the one-pot synthesis of diverse and complex compounds on the one hand and small and 'drug-like' heterocycles on the other hand. No other single synthesis technology enables chemists to search such large chemical spaces as provided by MCRs. MCRs that invo...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Dömling A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome bc(1) complex is a key mitochondrial enzyme that catalyses transfer of electrons maintaining the membrane potential of mitochondria. Currently, atovaquone is the only drug in clinical use targeting the Plasmodium falciparum bc(1) complex. The rapid emergence of resistance to atovaquone resulted in a cos...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Barton V,Fisher N,Biagini GA,Ward SA,O'Neill PM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00