Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Chemistry World: Drugs, the permanent way

Exceptions to a long-held rule against chemically bonding to biological targets are powering new cancer medicines, finds Andy Extance

https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/covalent-inhibitor-drugs/2500494.article

Exploiting human fucosyltransferase 8 allostery with a covalent inhibitor for core fucosylation suppression

Jiheng Jiang, Dongyang He, Mengyu Ke, Jinhua Qin, Guang Yang, Biao Yu, Jing Wang & Pengfei Fang  Nat Commun  (2026).  https://doi.org/10...