Exceptions to a long-held rule against chemically bonding to biological targets are powering new cancer medicines, finds Andy Extance
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Advancing Covalent Ligand and Drug Discovery beyond Cysteine
Gibae Kim, R. Justin Grams, and Ku-Lung Hsu Chemical Reviews 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00001 Targeting intractable proteins remains ...
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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of the activity-based probes for FGFR covalent inhibitorDandan Zhu, Zijian Zheng, Huixin Huang, Xiaojuan Chen, Shuhong Zhang, Zhuchu Chen, Ting Liu, Guangyu Xu, Ying Fu, Yongheng Chen, European Jo...
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DOI Ansgar Oberheide, Maxime van den Oetelaar, Jakob Scheele, Jan Borggräfe, Semmy Engelen, Michael Sattler, Christian Ottmann, ...
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Özge Ünsal, Z. Selin Bacaksiz, Vladislav Khamraev, Vittorio Montanari, Martin Beinborn, and Krishna Kumar ACS Chemical Biology 2024 DOI: ...