Rational design in photopharmacology with molecular photoswitches

P Kobauri, FJ Dekker, W Szymanski… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photopharmacology is an attractive approach for achieving targeted drug action with the use
of light. In photopharmacology, molecular photoswitches are introduced into the structure of …

Molecular photoswitches in aqueous environments

J Volarić, W Szymanski, NA Simeth… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular photoswitches enable dynamic control of processes with high spatiotemporal
precision, using light as external stimulus, and hence are ideal tools for different research …

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 …

CURATE. AI: optimizing personalized medicine with artificial intelligence

A Blasiak, J Khong, T Kee - … TECHNOLOGY: Translating Life …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The clinical team attending to a patient upon a diagnosis is faced with two main questions:
what treatment, and at what dose? Clinical trials' results provide the basis for guidance and …

Reversible modulation of circadian time with chronophotopharmacology

D Kolarski, C Miró-Vinyals, A Sugiyama… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The circadian clock controls daily rhythms of physiological processes. The presence of the
clock mechanism throughout the body is hampering its local regulation by small molecules …

Sign inversion in photopharmacology: Incorporation of cyclic azobenzenes in photoswitchable potassium channel blockers and openers

JB Trads, K Hüll, BS Matsuura, L Laprell… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photopharmacology relies on ligands that change their pharmacodynamics upon
photoisomerization. Many of these ligands are azobenzenes that are thermodynamically …

Structural ensemble of a glutamate transporter homologue in lipid nanodisc environment

V Arkhipova, A Guskov, DJ Slotboom - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Glutamate transporters are cation-coupled secondary active membrane transporters that
clear the neurotransmitter L-glutamate from the synaptic cleft. These transporters are …

Structural aspects of photopharmacology: insight into the binding of photoswitchable and photocaged inhibitors to the glutamate transporter homologue

V Arkhipova, H Fu, MWH Hoorens… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photopharmacology addresses the challenge of drug selectivity and side effects through
creation of photoresponsive molecules activated with light with high spatiotemporal …

Azobenzene-based unnatural amino acid scaffolds via a Pd (ii)-catalyzed C (sp 3)–H arylation strategy

R Tomar, S Suwasia, AR Choudhury… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Azobenzene-based unnatural amino acid scaffolds via a Pd( ii )-catalyzed C(sp 3 )–H arylation
strategy - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D2CC04870A Royal …

Rational design of a photoswitchable DNA glue enabling high regulatory function and supramolecular chirality transfer

NA Simeth, S Kobayashi, P Kobauri, S Crespi… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Short, complementary DNA single strands with mismatched base pairs cannot undergo
spontaneous formation of duplex DNA (dsDNA). Mismatch binding ligands (MBLs) can …