abstract：:Extracellular electron transfer via filamentous protein appendages called 'microbial nanowires' has long been studied in Geobacter and other bacteria because of their crucial role in globally-important environmental processes and their applications for bioenergy, biofuels, and bioelectronics. Thousands of papers thoug...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Yalcin SE,Malvankar NS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exacerbation of climate change and air pollution around the world have emphasized the necessity of replacing fossil fuels with clean and sustainable energy. Metabolic engineering has provided strategies to engineer diverse organisms for the production of biofuels from renewable carbon sources. Although some of the pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Choi KR,Jiao S,Lee SY

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are indispensable cellular building blocks, and their post-translational attachment to proteins makes them important regulators of many biological processes. Dysfunction of protein lipidation is also implicated in many pathological states, yet its systematic analysis presents significant challenges. Thanks to i...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Losada de la Lastra A,Hassan S,Tate EW

更新日期：2020-11-19 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：:Natural products continue to provide privileged scaffolds for drug discovery. However, challenges in supply and structure diversification can limit development. Here, we discuss recent (2017-2020) examples of synthetic biology approaches used to address challenges in supply and contribute to structure diversification ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Romanowski S,Eustáquio AS

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallodrugs are extensively used to treat and diagnose distinct disease types. The unique physical-chemical properties of metal ions offer tantalizing opportunities to tailor effective scaffolds for selectively targeting specific biomolecules. Modern experimental techniques have collected a large body of structural d...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Janoš P,Spinello A,Magistrato A

更新日期：2020-08-08 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：:Recent advances in -omic profiling technologies have ushered in an era where we no longer want to merely measure the presence or absence of a biomolecule of interest, but instead hope to understand its function and interactions within larger signaling networks. Here, we review several emerging proteomic technologies c...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Huang JX,Coukos JS,Moellering RE

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Monitoring the conformational dynamics of proteins is crucial for a better understanding of their biological functions. To observe the structural dynamics of proteins, it is often necessary to study each molecule individually. To this end, single-molecule techniques have been developed such as Förster resonance energy...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Frustaci S,Vollmer F

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Altered metabolite levels can drive epigenetic changes critical to development and disease. However, in many cases the specific protein-metabolite interactions that underlie this process remain enigmatic. In this review, we make the case that this fundamental missing information may be discovered by applying the tools...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Kulkarni RA,Montgomery DC,Meier JL

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Initiating and terminating free-radical reactionis via hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) is an attractive means of avoiding substrate prefunctionalization. Small molecule catalysts and reagents, however, struggle to execute this fundamental step with useful levels of diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity. In contrast...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Nakano Y,Biegasiewicz KF,Hyster TK

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification is the aerobic process of the nitrogen cycle that converts ammonia to nitrate and is facilitated by ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms. Ammonia-oxidizers are unique chemolithotrophs that evolved specialized networks of electron carriers to generate proton motive force using ammonia as...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Stein LY

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron bifurcation, or the coupling of exergonic and endergonic oxidation-reduction reactions, was discovered by Peter Mitchell and provides an elegant mechanism to rationalize and understand the logic that underpins the Q cycle of the respiratory chain. Thought to be a unique reaction of respiratory complex III for...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Peters JW,Beratan DN,Bothner B,Dyer RB,Harwood CS,Heiden ZM,Hille R,Jones AK,King PW,Lu Y,Lubner CE,Minteer SD,Mulder DW,Raugei S,Schut GJ,Seefeldt LC,Tokmina-Lukaszewska M,Zadvornyy OA,Zhang P,Adams MW

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Lysine acetylation has emerged as a key post-translational modification found at many sites throughout the cell. It plays an important role in epigenetic processes, and more generally in the regulation of protein stability and interactions. Acetyl groups are installed by lysine acetyltransferases and removed by lysine...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Schiedel M,Conway SJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By acoustically detecting the optical absorption contrast, photoacoustic (PA) tomography (PAT) has broken the penetration limits of traditional high-resolution optical imaging. Through spectroscopic analysis of the target's optical absorption, PAT can identify a wealth of endogenous and exogenous molecules and thus is...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Yao J,Wang LV

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing goal of molecular imaging is to visualize cellular function within the context of living animals, necessitating the development of reporter genes compatible with deeply penetrant imaging modalities such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Until recently, no reporter genes for ultrasound...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Lu GJ,Farhadi A,Mukherjee A,Shapiro MG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an essential nutrient for life, and its capacity to cycle between different oxidation states is required for processes spanning oxygen transport and respiration to nucleotide synthesis and epigenetic regulation. However, this same redox ability also makes iron, if not regulated properly, a potentially dangerou...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Aron AT,Reeves AG,Chang CJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：:Lipids are a vital class of molecules that play important and varied roles in biological processes, however, fully understanding these roles is extremely difficult due to the immense number and diversity of possible lipid species. While recent advances in chromatography and high resolution mass spectrometry have great...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Zheng X,Smith RD,Baker ES

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics and lipidomics aim to comprehensively measure the dynamic changes of all metabolites and lipids that are present in biological systems. The use of ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) for metabolomics and lipidomics has facilitated the separation and the identification of metabolites and lipids in compl...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Zhou Z,Tu J,Zhu ZJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the existence of numerous isomers, the in-depth analysis of glycans represents a major challenge. Currently, the majority of glycans are analysed using mass spectrometry (MS)-based techniques, which can provide information on regioisomers but usually fail to differentiate stereoisomers. A promising approach to ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Manz C,Pagel K

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a glycolipid found in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, is a potent elicitor of innate immune responses in mammals. A typical LPS molecule is composed of three different structural domains: a polysaccharide called the O-antigen, a core oligosaccharide, and Lipid A. Lipid A is the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Xiao X,Sankaranarayanan K,Khosla C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conceptual and computational advances triggered an explosion of designed protein structures in the recent years. Various protein fold geometries have been robustly designed with atomic accuracy, including protein folds unseen in nature. The same principles and tools have been extended to design multi-chain assemblies....

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ljubetič A,Gradišar H,Jerala R

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, peptides have expanded the toolbox of additives for the preparation of noble metal nanoparticles. Their functional and structural modularity and accompanying molecular recognition and self-assembly properties offer unique opportunities for the controlled formation of NPs. Within this review,...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Corra S,Shoshan MS,Wennemers H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosensors use biological elements to detect or quantify an analyte of interest. In bioprocessing, biosensors are employed to monitor key metabolites. There are two main types: fully biological systems or biological recognition coupled with physical/chemical detection. New developments in chemical biosensors include m...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Dekker L,Polizzi KM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering and chemoenzymatic glycan labeling have provided powerful tools to study glycans in living systems and tissue samples. In this review article, we summarize recent advances in this field with a focus on innovative approaches for glycan imaging. The presented applications demonstrat...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ovryn B,Li J,Hong S,Wu P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical imaging plays an increasingly important role in studying heterogeneous biological systems. It combines molecular spectroscopy with high-resolution spatial information to create quantitative images of molecular distributions. Here I summarize recent progress in technical developments and biological application...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Fu D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative microscopy is needed to understand reactions or phenomena carried out by biological molecules such as enzymes, receptors, and membrane-localized proteins. Counting the biomolecules of interest in single organelles or cellular compartments is critical in these approaches. In this brief perspective, we focu...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Jung SR,Fujimoto BS,Chiu DT

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acids such as DNA are increasingly being applied in nanotechnology, as a result of their capability to self-assemble reversibly. The formal replacement of canonical base pairs by metal-mediated ones enables a site-specific introduction of metal-based functionality into these biomolecules, leading to the format...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Mandal S,Müller J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cobalamin to coordinate different upper axial ligands gives rise to a diversity of reactivity. Traditionally, adenosylcobalamin is associated with radical-based rearrangements, and methylcobalamin with methyl cation transfers. Recently, however, a new role for adenosylcobalamin has been discovered as a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Bridwell-Rabb J,Drennan CL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photorespiratory pathway, in short photorespiration, is an essential metabolite repair pathway that allows the photosynthetic CO2 fixation of plants to occur in the presence of oxygen. It is necessary because oxygen is a competing substrate of the CO2-fixing enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase, forming 2-...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Hagemann M,Bauwe H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural enzymes that catalyze Diels-Alder reactions have long been sought after, yet few enzymes have been experimentally confirmed to perform this reaction. In the past five years, several stand-alone enzymes that can catalyze the Diels-Alder reaction had been identified and characterized. Among which, the crystal st...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Hashimoto T,Kuzuyama T

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00