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ReviewOrganic & biomolecular chemistry2021

Photoaffinity labelling strategies for mapping the small molecule-protein interactome.

Nikolas R Burton, Phillip Kim, Keriann M Backus

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Review in Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Facile Synthesis of H-L-Photo-Lysine and Its Genetic Incorporation Into Proteins.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  12. Methods for the Investigation of Protein-Ligands Interactions.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nikolas R BurtonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. kbackus@mednet.ucla.edu.
Phillip KimDepartment of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Keriann M BackusDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. kbackus@mednet.ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8541-1404

Funding

Understanding the Influence of Lipid Homeostasis on T cell FunctionP01HL146358 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TONTONOZ, PETER J · 2019 to 2023
$11.7M
Biotechnology Training in Biomedical Sciences and EngineeringT32GM067555 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GU, ZHEN · 2005 to 2019
$2.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL146358NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nearly all FDA approved drugs and bioactive small molecules exert their effects by binding to and modulating proteins. Consequently, understanding how small molecules interact with proteins at an molecular level is a central challenge of modern chemical biology and drug development. Complementary to structure-guided approaches, chemoproteomics has emerged as a method capable of high-throughput identification of proteins covalently bound by small molecules. To profile noncovalent interactions, established chemoproteomic workflows typically incorporate photoreactive moieties into small molecule probes, which enable trapping of small molecule-protein interactions (SMPIs). This strategy, termed photoaffinity labelling (PAL), has been utilized to profile an array of small molecule interactions, including for drugs, lipids, metabolites, and cofactors. Herein we describe the discovery of photocrosslinking chemistries, including a comparison of the strengths and limitations of implementation of each chemotype in chemoproteomic workflows. In addition, we highlight key examples where photoaffinity labelling has enabled target deconvolution and interaction site mapping.

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Photoaffinity LabelsProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesHumansMolecular StructurePhotochemical ProcessesProtein BindingPhotoaffinity LabelsProteinsSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID34549230
PMCPMC8489259

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