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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2019

Reactive-cysteine profiling for drug discovery.

Aaron J Maurais, Eranthie Weerapana

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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82citing papers in PubMed
9.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 175 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aaron J MauraisDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, United States.
Eranthie WeerapanaDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, United States. Electronic address: eranthie@bc.edu.
Boston College · US

Funding

Investigating cysteine-mediated protein activities in C. elegansR01GM118431 · NIGMS · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI WEERAPANA, ERANTHIE · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Investigating cysteine PTMs in living cellsR01GM117004 · NIGMS · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI WEERAPANA, ERANTHIE · 2016 to 2019
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117004NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recognition that only a small percentage of known human gene products are druggable using traditional modes of non-covalent ligand design, has led to a resurgence in targeted covalent inhibitors. Covalent inhibitors offer advantages over non-covalent inhibitors in engaging otherwise challenging targets. Reactive cysteine residues on proteins are a common target for covalent inhibitors, whereby the high nucleophilicity of the cysteine thiol under physiological conditions provides an ideal anchoring site for electrophilic small molecules. A chemical-proteomic platform, termed isoTOP-ABPP, allows for profiling cysteine reactivity in complex proteomes and is one of many techniques that can aid in two aspects of the covalent-inhibitor development process: (1) to identify functional cysteines that lead to modulation of protein activity through covalent modification; and, (2) to determine cellular targets and evaluate promiscuity of electrophilic fragments, small molecules, and natural products. Herein, we discuss recent advances in isoTOP-ABPP and potential applications of this technology in the drug-discovery pipeline.

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CysteineDrug DiscoveryHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansCysteine

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PMID30897495
PMCPMC6584045
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