Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization215
Noncytotoxic catalytic enzyme functional mimics including cyanide poisoning antidotes142
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes136
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions98
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis90
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes76
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions75
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones72
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies62
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules58
Recent advances in proximity labeling for chemical proteomics: Paving the way for in vivo applications58
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions57
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes57
The Ramifications of synthetic biology56
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy51
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales50
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome49
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases48
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome47
Extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics research47
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging46
From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases45
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology44
Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology44
Network biology bridges the gaps between quantitative genetics and multi-omics to map complex diseases43
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications43
Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations41
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation41
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes39
Chemical probes for tagging mycobacterial lipids39
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine38
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics38
Recent advancements in mass spectrometry–based tools to investigate newly synthesized proteins37
Editorial Board37
Chemical approaches for investigating site-specific protein S-fatty acylation36
Towards chemoenzymatic labeling strategies for profiling protein glycosylation36
How nature incorporates sulfur and selenium into bioactive natural products35
Natural and engineered precision antibiotics in the context of resistance35
Editorial Board35
Protein sequence design with deep generative models34
Super-multiplexed vibrational probes: Being colorful makes a difference34
Recent progress of TP/NIR fluorescent probes for metal ions33
Mechanism and inhibition of BRAF kinase33
Editorial: Unusual enzyme reactions in natural products biosynthesis33
Virus-assisted directed evolution of biomolecules32
Recent advances in computational algorithms and software for large-scale glycoproteomics32
Emergence of (hydro)persulfides as suppressors of lipid peroxidation and ferroptotic cell death32
Sulfoxides in medicine32
Induced proximity tools for precise manipulation of lipid signaling32
Recent advances in N- and C-terminus cysteine protein bioconjugation32
Transferring enzyme features to molecular CO2 reduction catalysts31
Molecular anchoring and fluorescent labeling in animals compatible with tissue clearing for 3D imaging30
Cysteine and methionine oxidation in thrombotic disorders30
Structural insights into the half-of-sites reactivity in homodimeric and homotetrameric metalloenzymes30
Targeted protein degradation: Emerging concepts and protein state-specific targeting principles30
Metabolomics-guided utilization of beneficial microbes for climate-resilient crops29
Synthetic peptide scaffolds as ion channels and molecular carriers29
Small-molecule organoselenocyanates: Recent developments toward synthesis, anticancer, and antioxidant activities29
Molecular glues to stabilise protein–protein interactions29
Emerging artificial metalloenzymes for asymmetric hydrogenation reactions28
Bacterial peptidoglycan as a living polymer28
Integrated mass spectrometry strategy for functional protein complex discovery and structural characterization28
Structural insights into auxiliary cofactor usage by radical S-adenosylmethionine enzymes28
Fluorescent indicators for imaging membrane potential of organelles27
Recent advances in chemical synthesis of O-linked glycopeptides and glycoproteins: An advanced synthetic tool for exploring the biological realm27
Synthesis and application of bacterial exopolysaccharides27
SOD mimics: From the tool box of the chemists to cellular studies27
Immunogenic cell death-inducing metal complexes: From the benchtop to the clinic26
Inhibitors of DHHC family proteins25
Promoting remyelination: A case study in regenerative medicine25
Finding ways into the cytosol: Peptide-mediated approaches for delivering proteins into cells25
New frontiers in sulfur and selenium chemical biology25
Advancing mass spectrometry–based glycoproteomic software tools for comprehensive site-specific glycoproteome analysis24
Recent advances in the structural biology of modular polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases23
Editorial overview: Transforming intracellular delivery: Innovations in macromolecule transport23
Lipidomics analysis in drug discovery and development23
Glutathione dynamics in subcellular compartments and implications for drug development23
Editorial overview: Recent advances in metabolomics23
Recent advances on the synthesis of N-linked glycoprotein for the elucidation of glycan functions23
Editorial overview: Glycobiology (2024)23
Protein-based models offer mechanistic insight into complex nickel metalloenzymes22
Editorial Board22
Editorial overview: Synthetic biomolecules for probing lipid membranes22
Probing metalloenzyme dynamics in living systems: Contemporary advances in fluorescence imaging tools and applications22
Metalloprotein enabled redox signal transduction in microbes22
Image-based cell phenotyping with deep learning21
Editorial Board21
Strategies for quantifying the enzymatic activities of glycoside hydrolases within cells and in vivo21
Analytical techniques in chemical biology21
Catalyzing the future: recent advances in chemical synthesis using enzymes21
Engineering the bilayer: Emerging genetic tool kits for mechanistic lipid biology21
Editorial Board21
Structures and functions of algal glycans shape their capacity to sequester carbon in the ocean20
Chemical probes for investigating protein liquid-liquid phase separation and aggregation20
Sensing and regulation of reactive sulfur species (RSS) in bacteria20
Corrigendum to “Bacterial diterpene synthases: New opportunities for mechanistic enzymology and engineered biosynthesis” [Curr Opin Chem Biol, 16 (2012) 132–14120
Discovery and evolution of [4 + 2] cyclases20
Chemical synthesis and biological functions of carbohydrates20
The non-catalytic domains of O-GlcNAc cycling enzymes present new opportunities for function-specific control20
Molecular and biochemical insights from natural and engineered photosynthetic endosymbiotic systems20
Strategies in engineering sustainable biochemical synthesis through microbial systems20
Myeloid C-type lectin receptors in host–pathogen interactions and glycan-based targeting20
Editorial: Mechanistic biology19
Editorial Board19
Inhibition of p53 protein aggregation as a cancer treatment strategy19
Recent progress on small molecules targeting epigenetic complexes19
Recent advances in the development of peptide-based inhibitors targeting epigenetic readers of histone lysine acetylation and methylation marks19
Factors that influence singlet oxygen formation vs. ligand substitution for light-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds19
Recent advances in the mass spectrometric profiling of bacterial lipids19
Recent advances in high-throughput screening methods for small molecule modulators in bacteria19
Chemical biology tools to probe bacterial glycans19
Molecular probes for fluorescence image-guided cancer surgery18
Discovering functional small molecules in the gut microbiome18
Reactions of lipid hydroperoxides and how they may contribute to ferroptosis sensitivity18
Small-molecule tools for YEATS domain proteins18
Targeting chemotherapy-resistant tumour sub-populations using inorganic chemistry: Anti-cancer stem cell metal complexes18
Insights into SACS pathological attributes in autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)☆18
Supramolecular platinum complexes for cancer therapy18
Recent strides in macromolecular targeted photodynamic therapy for cancer18
Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists as a driving force behind next-generation vaccine adjuvants and cancer therapeutics18
Show your true color: Mammalian cell surface staining for tracking cellular identity in multiplexing and beyond17
MicroRNA:Siglec crosstalk in cancer progression17
Multimodal and multiscale correlative elemental imaging: From whole tissues down to organelles17
Functions and mechanisms of enzymes assembling lignans and norlignans17
Recent progress in metal-based molecular probes for optical bioimaging and biosensing17
Editorial Board17
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Realgar and arsenene nanomaterials as arsenic-based anticancer agents17
Recent advances in de novo designed metallopeptides as tailored enzyme mimics17
Strategies and mechanisms for endosomal escape of therapeutic nucleic acids17
Sulfur-containing marine natural products as leads for drug discovery and development16
In silico, in vitro, and in vivo machine learning in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering16
Probing immune infiltration dynamics in cancer by in vivo imaging16
Recent advances in data- and knowledge-driven approaches to explore primary microbial metabolism16
Microbial metabolite-receptor interactions in the gut microbiome16
Fluorescent sterol probes for intracellular transport, imaging, and therapeutics16
Recent advances in developing degraders & inhibitors of lysine methyltransferases16
Extending optical chemical tools and technologies to mice by shifting to the shortwave infrared region15
Stimuli-responsive synthetic ionophores for therapeutic applications15
Natural and artificial siderophores: Iron-based applications and beyond15
New chemical processes to streamline carbohydrate synthesis15
Synthetic ion channels made of DNA15
Recent advances in the design and optimization of artificial metalloenzymes15
Recent developments in probing the levels and flux of selected organellar cations as well as organellar mechanosensitivity14
The influence of alkylating agents on sulfur–sulfur bonds in per- and polysulfides14
Recent advances in kinase signaling network profiling by mass spectrometry14
Small molecules as modulators of phage–bacteria interactions14
Recent advances on human milk oligosaccharide antimicrobial activity14
Foldamer-mediated transport across phospholipid bilayers14
Lanthanide-dye hybrid luminophores for advanced NIR-II bioimaging14
Development of novel indicators and molecular systems for calcium sensing through protein engineering14
Recent research progress in glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein biosynthesis, chemical/chemoenzymatic synthesis, and interaction with the cell membrane14
Emerging fluorescence tools for the study of proteostasis in cells14
Pharmacological stabilization of the native state of full-length immunoglobulin light chains to treat light chain amyloidosis14
Deciphering combinatorial post-translational modifications by top-down mass spectrometry14
Creating and understanding new-to-nature chemistry14
Engineering novel adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) for improved delivery in the nervous system14
Metabolic interventions to enhance immunotherapy and targeted therapy efficacy in advanced colorectal cancer13
Enabling structural biological electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in membrane proteins through spin labelling13
Recent advances in the synthesis of extensive libraries of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides for structure–activity relationship studies13
Emerging mechanisms of regulation for endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores by secretory pathway kinase FAM20C13
Oxygen-transfer reactions by enzymatic flavin-N5 oxygen adducts—Oxidation is not a must13
Recent advances in engineering microorganisms for the production of natural food colorants13
Molecular-level interplay between intrinsically disordered clients and Hsp9013
Recent advances in the expanding genetic code13
Ancient complexes of iron and sulfur modulate oncogenes and oncometabolism13
F420-dependent transformations in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites12
Advances and challenges in programming pattern formation using living cells12
Recent advances in mass spectrometry-based methods to investigate reversible cysteine oxidation12
New potentiators of ineffective antibiotics: Targeting the Gram-negative outer membrane to overcome intrinsic resistance12
Quantitative interactome analysis with chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry12
How do metabolic processes age: Evidence from human metabolomic studies12
Editorial Board12
Chemical biology approaches to uncovering nuclear ROS control12
Biosynthesis and recruitment of reactive amino acids in nonribosomal peptide assembly lines12
Illuminating antifungal mode of action and resistance with fluorescent probes11
The multifaceted repertoire of cellular reactive metabolites11
Synthetic fragments of plant polysaccharides as tools for cell wall biology11
Editorial Board11
Highlights of bioinformatic tools and methods for validating bioinformatics derived hypotheses for microbial natural products research11
Therapeutic synthetic anion transporters11
KATs off: Biomedical insights from lysine acetyltransferase inhibitors11
Evolving advances of proximity labeling in capturing biomolecular interactions11
Recent advances in Zn2+ imaging: From organelles to in vivo applications11
Expanding the viewpoint: Leveraging sequence information in enzymology11
Microbial metabolism of host-derived antioxidants11
Editorial overview - Exploring the diversity of polysaccharides11
Discovering microbiota functions via chemical probe incorporation for targeted sequencing11
Machine learning for profile prediction in genomics11
Substrate-selective small-molecule modulators of enzymes: Mechanisms and opportunities11
Genetically encoding latent bioreactive amino acids and the development of covalent protein drugs10
An expanded molecular and systems toolbox for imaging, mapping, and controlling local translation10
A phenazine-inspired framework for identifying biological functions of microbial redox-active metabolites10
The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in molecular pharming practices10
Inverse Drug Discovery identifies weak electrophiles affording protein conjugates10
Current strategies for characterization of mucin-domain glycoproteins10
Towards sequence-based principles for protein phase separation predictions9
Recent advances in drug repurposing using machine learning9
Editorial Board9
Advancements in boron difluoride formazanate dyes for biological imaging9
Current mechanistic understanding of intermembrane lipid trafficking important for maintenance of bacterial outer membrane lipid asymmetry9
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Small-angle X-ray scattering studies of enzymes9
Decoding the cellular effects of genetic variation through interaction proteomics9
Editorial overview: Editorial of molecular imaging9
Compounds for selective translational inhibition9
How are hydrogen peroxide messages relayed to affect cell signalling?9
Electrophilic metabolites targeting the KEAP1/NRF2 partnership9
Development of effective therapeutics for polysubstance use disorders9
Tuning specificity and topology of lectins through synthetic biology9
Bacterial glycoengineering: Cell-based and cell-free routes for producing biopharmaceuticals with customized glycosylation9
Convergent and divergent biosynthetic strategies towards phosphonic acid natural products9
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