Nature chose phosphates and chemists should too: How emerging P (V) methods can augment existing strategies

KW Knouse, DT Flood, JC Vantourout… - ACS Central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Phosphate linkages govern life as we know it. Their unique properties provide the
foundation for many natural systems from cell biology and biosynthesis to the backbone of …

Recent developments in the cleavage, functionalization, and conjugation of proteins and peptides at tyrosine residues

S Zhang, LMDL Rodriguez, FF Li, MA Brimble - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide and protein selective modification at tyrosine residues has become an exploding
field of research as tyrosine constitutes a robust alternative to lysine and cysteine-targeted …

Template-independent enzymatic synthesis of RNA oligonucleotides

DJ Wiegand, J Rittichier, E Meyer, H Lee… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
RNA oligonucleotides have emerged as a powerful therapeutic modality to treat disease, yet
current manufacturing methods may not be able to deliver on anticipated future demand …

An enzyme cascade enables production of therapeutic oligonucleotides in a single operation

ER Moody, R Obexer, F Nickl, R Spiess, SL Lovelock - Science, 2023 - science.org
Therapeutic oligonucleotides have emerged as a powerful drug modality with the potential
to treat a wide range of diseases; however, the rising number of therapies poses a …

Impact of stereopure chimeric backbone chemistries on the potency and durability of gene silencing by RNA interference

W Liu, N Iwamoto, S Marappan, K Luu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Herein, we report the systematic investigation of stereopure phosphorothioate (PS) and
phosphoryl guanidine (PN) linkages on siRNA-mediated silencing. The incorporation of …

Stereocontrolled access to thioisosteres of nucleoside di-and triphosphates

HJ Zhang, M Ociepa, M Nassir, B Zheng, SA Lewicki… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Nucleoside diphosphates and triphosphates impact nearly every aspect of biochemistry;
however, the use of such compounds as tools or medicinal leads for nucleotide-dependent …

Development of nucleic acid medicines based on chemical technology

Y Kawamoto, Y Wu, Y Takahashi, Y Takakura - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Oligonucleotide-based therapeutics have attracted attention as an emerging modality that
includes the modulation of genes and their binding proteins related to diseases, allowing us …

Catalytic enantioselective nucleophilic desymmetrization of phosphonate esters

M Formica, T Rogova, H Shi, N Sahara, B Ferko… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Molecules that contain a stereogenic phosphorus atom are crucial to medicine,
agrochemistry and catalysis. While methods are available for the selective construction of …

Advances in biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues

SC Cosgrove, GJ Miller - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Nucleoside analogues represent a cornerstone of achievement in drug
discovery, rising to prominence particularly in the fields of antiviral and anticancer discovery …

Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral‐at‐P Alkenylphosphonamidates through Nickel‐Catalyzed C− P Coupling of Phosphoramidites and Alkenyl Halides

XB Chen, D Padín, CN Stindt… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
P‐stereogenic compounds are widely used as ligands in asymmetric catalysis and are
present in a myriad of bioactive compounds and pharmaceuticals. Yet, their stereocontrolled …