Oligosaccharide receptors for bacteria: a view to a kill.

abstract：:Peptides that recognize specific cell types promise to be valuable tools both in research and clinical applications. Cell-specific peptides can be useful as drug delivery vehicles, diagnostic agents, affinity reagents for cell purification, gene therapy delivery agents, and research tools to probe the nature of a cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Brown KC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentation of synthesis gas (including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen) with anaerobic acetogens is an established biotechnological process that has recently been transferred to a commercial scale. The natural product spectrum of acetogens is natively restricted to acetate, ethanol, and 2,3-butaned...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Molitor B,Marcellin E,Angenent LT

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes are nature's powerful catalytic proteins to perform reactions with often outstanding activity, selectivity and specificity. Moreover, the access to non-natural functions of biocatalysts can be facilitated by enzyme engineering. While rational approaches are often focused on an enzyme's active site, from random...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Kreß N,Halder JM,Rapp LR,Hauer B

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous developments in useful linkers are closely related with the advances in solid-phase organic synthesis. These linkers allow facile attachment functionalization and release molecules of interest. Designing a new anchoring group can be essential for synthesis success, especially for small molecules on solid supp...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Gil C,Bräse S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although new detection screening methods must still be developed, the actual main limitation in combinatorial chemistry seems to be the diversity of ligands that can be generated in terms of real structural and chemical diversity. Thus, there is a strong interest for the development of different strategies for the par...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Lavastre O,Bonnette F,Gallard L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New insights have been gained into the therapeutic relevance of the sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) pathway, on the basis of reverse pharmacological approaches to defining the mechanism of action of the immunosuppressive agent FTY720. Natural and synthetic sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor agonists can make picomolar int...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Rosen H,Liao J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein engineering over the past four years has made rhodopsin-based genetically encoded voltage indicators a leading candidate to achieve the task of reporting action potentials from a population of genetically targeted neurons in vivo. Rational design and large-scale screening efforts have steadily improved the dyn...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Gong Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent attachment of glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs) to the protein C-terminus is one of the most common posttranslational modifications in eukaryotic cells. In addition to anchoring surface proteins to the cell membrane, GPIs also have many other important biological functions, determined by their unique struc...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Yu S,Guo Z,Johnson C,Gu G,Wu Q

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition-metal catalysis has unlocked new paradigms for the late-stage modification and cyclization of peptides by harnessing the innate reactivity of proteinogenic amino acids. The field is rapidly evolving, with recent advances encompassing three fundamental areas-heteroatom couplings, decarboxylative cross-coupli...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Malins LR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of nucleic acids has been an endless source of discovery and invention that has drastically enhanced our appreciation of DNA and RNA as multifaceted polymers. It is now widely known that nucleic acids can act as enzymes (deoxyribozymes and ribozymes) and as receptors (aptamers), and that these functional ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Navani NK,Li Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese, iron, copper, and zinc are observed to play essential roles in mitochondria. The overload and depletion of metal ions in mitochondria under pathological conditions, however, could disturb mitochondrial compartments and functions leading to cell death. In this review, we mainly summarize how impaired metal i...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Nam E,Han J,Suh JM,Yi Y,Lim MH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The industrial application of enzymes that can withstand harsh conditions has greatly increased over the past decade. This is mainly a result of the discovery of novel enzymes from extremophilic microorganisms. Recent advances in the study of extremozymes point to the acceleration of this trend. In particular, enzymes...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Demirjian DC,Morís-Varas F,Cassidy CS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase (RT) telomerase uses a template within its integral RNA subunit to extend chromosome ends by synthesis of single-stranded telomeric repeats. Telomerase is adapted to its unique cellular role by an ability to release product DNA in single-stranded form, regeneratin...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Collins K

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence and reflectance spectroscopy provide the ability to assess tissue structure and metabolism in vivo in real time, providing improved diagnosis of pre-cancerous lesions. Reflectance spectroscopy can probe changes in epithelial nuclei that are important in pre-cancer detection, such as mean nuclear diameter,...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Sokolov K,Follen M,Richards-Kortum R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators (GEVIs) are powerful tools used to investigate neural activity in the brain. The spatiotemporal resolution of GEVIs is on a subcellular and millisecond scale, and is superior to that of the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG). Further, whil...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Inagaki S,Nagai T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid progress in genomics and proteomics has provided a wealth of new targets for the pharmaceutical industry, even as many older targets still remain challenging for small-molecule drug discovery. Fragment-based lead discovery, in which leads are built progressively by expanding or combining small fragments, is a ra...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Erlanson DA,Hansen SK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has long been a powerful tool for structural analysis of membrane proteins. However, because of difficulties in resolving contributions from individual residues, most of the derived measurements tend to yield average properties for the system under study. Isotope editing,...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Arkin IT

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic pathways of soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and cytochrome P450CAM, iron-containing enzymes, are described and compared. Recent extensive density functional ab initio electronic structure calculations have revealed many similarities in a number of the key catalytic steps, as well as some important d...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Guallar V,Gherman BF,Lippard SJ,Friesner RA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide arrays have attracted wide interest as tools for discovering biochemical interactions. Because many protein binding and enzyme activities are directed towards peptides, the preparation of arrays having hundreds to thousands of immobilized peptides offers an unprecedented opportunity for identifying interaction...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Min DH,Mrksich M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently intense interest in unravelling the modus operandi of type I modular polyketide synthases in order to lay the ground work for their use in the combinatorial biosynthesis of new bioactive molecules. Much of our knowledge is derived from studies on 6-deoxyerythronolide B (DEBS), the enzyme assembling ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Floss HG,Yu TW

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great progress has been made in expanding the repertoire of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for monitoring intracellular transition metals (TMs). This powerful toolkit permits dynamic and non-invasive detection of TMs with high spatial-temporal resolution, which enables us to better understand the roles of TM ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Hao Z,Zhu R,Chen PR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of new chemical entities has remained rather constant (averaging 37 per year) in the past decade, despite the multiple-fold increase in the number of compounds that are being made and tested. Chemical space requires novel methods that can handle the increasing number of potentially accessible molecules. Nei...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Oprea TI

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:The biosynthetic pathways of plant natural products offer an abundance of knowledge to scientists in many fields. Synthetic chemists can be inspired by the synthetic strategies that nature uses to construct these compounds. Chemical and biological engineers are working to reprogram these biosynthetic pathways to more ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Usera AR,O'Connor SE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of fluorine atoms into organic molecules has received considerable attention as these organofluorines have often found widespread applications in bioorganic chemistry, medicinal chemistry and biomaterial science. Despite innovation of synthetic C-F forming methodologies, selective fluorination is stil...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Wu L,Maglangit F,Deng H

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Fragment-based screening has now become an established method for the generation of lead molecules against therapeutic targets. Fragment molecules are simple, low molecular-weight compounds with few chemical functionalities. These characteristics lead to high hit rates for fragment screening as compared to the more cl...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Barelier S,Krimm I

更新日期：2011-08-01 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 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：:Natural sources offer a wealth of chemically diverse compounds that have been evolutionary preselected to modulate biochemical pathways. Several industrial and academic groups are accessing this source using advanced technology platforms. Methods have been reported to generate large and diverse natural-product librari...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Abel U,Koch C,Speitling M,Hansske FG

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00