Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization152
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions79
Noncytotoxic catalytic enzyme functional mimics including cyanide poisoning antidotes76
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions75
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones67
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis64
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes60
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes60
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies58
Editorial Board54
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome53
The Ramifications of synthetic biology51
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions51
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes51
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales50
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging49
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules48
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome46
Recent advances in proximity labeling for chemical proteomics: Paving the way for in vivo applications45
Extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics research44
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy43
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases42
Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology41
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine41
From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases41
Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations40
Network biology bridges the gaps between quantitative genetics and multi-omics to map complex diseases39
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes38
Editorial Board37
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics37
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications37
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation37
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology37
Natural and engineered precision antibiotics in the context of resistance36
Towards chemoenzymatic labeling strategies for profiling protein glycosylation36
Editorial Board36
Super-multiplexed vibrational probes: Being colorful makes a difference36
How nature incorporates sulfur and selenium into bioactive natural products35
Mechanism and inhibition of BRAF kinase35
Recent advancements in mass spectrometry–based tools to investigate newly synthesized proteins34
Virus-assisted directed evolution of biomolecules33
Editorial: Unusual enzyme reactions in natural products biosynthesis33
Emergence of (hydro)persulfides as suppressors of lipid peroxidation and ferroptotic cell death33
Recent progress of TP/NIR fluorescent probes for metal ions32
Recent advances in computational algorithms and software for large-scale glycoproteomics32
Sulfoxides in medicine32
Targeted protein degradation: Emerging concepts and protein state-specific targeting principles31
Structural insights into the half-of-sites reactivity in homodimeric and homotetrameric metalloenzymes31
Cysteine and methionine oxidation in thrombotic disorders31
Recent advances in N- and C-terminus cysteine protein bioconjugation30
Bacterial peptidoglycan as a living polymer30
Transferring enzyme features to molecular CO2 reduction catalysts30
Molecular anchoring and fluorescent labeling in animals compatible with tissue clearing for 3D imaging29
Synthetic peptide scaffolds as ion channels and molecular carriers29
Small-molecule organoselenocyanates: Recent developments toward synthesis, anticancer, and antioxidant activities28
Structural insights into auxiliary cofactor usage by radical S-adenosylmethionine enzymes28
Metabolomics-guided utilization of beneficial microbes for climate-resilient crops28
Emerging artificial metalloenzymes for asymmetric hydrogenation reactions28
Integrated mass spectrometry strategy for functional protein complex discovery and structural characterization27
Recent advances in chemical synthesis of O-linked glycopeptides and glycoproteins: An advanced synthetic tool for exploring the biological realm26
Synthesis and application of bacterial exopolysaccharides26
Molecular glues to stabilise protein–protein interactions26
SOD mimics: From the tool box of the chemists to cellular studies26
New frontiers in sulfur and selenium chemical biology25
Advancing mass spectrometry–based glycoproteomic software tools for comprehensive site-specific glycoproteome analysis25
Promoting remyelination: A case study in regenerative medicine25
Fluorescent indicators for imaging membrane potential of organelles25
Finding ways into the cytosol: Peptide-mediated approaches for delivering proteins into cells25
Editorial overview: Transforming intracellular delivery: Innovations in macromolecule transport24
Probing metalloenzyme dynamics in living systems: Contemporary advances in fluorescence imaging tools and applications24
Editorial overview: Recent advances in metabolomics24
Editorial overview: Glycobiology (2024)24
Immunogenic cell death-inducing metal complexes: From the benchtop to the clinic24
Strategies for quantifying the enzymatic activities of glycoside hydrolases within cells and in vivo23
Editorial Board23
Recent advances on the synthesis of N-linked glycoprotein for the elucidation of glycan functions23
Protein-based models offer mechanistic insight into complex nickel metalloenzymes23
Editorial overview: Synthetic biomolecules for probing lipid membranes23
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Lipidomics analysis in drug discovery and development23
Analytical techniques in chemical biology23
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Metalloprotein enabled redox signal transduction in microbes23
Corrigendum to “Bacterial diterpene synthases: New opportunities for mechanistic enzymology and engineered biosynthesis” [Curr Opin Chem Biol, 16 (2012) 132–14122
Glutathione dynamics in subcellular compartments and implications for drug development22
Recent advances in the structural biology of modular polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases22
Myeloid C-type lectin receptors in host–pathogen interactions and glycan-based targeting22
Sensing and regulation of reactive sulfur species (RSS) in bacteria22
Catalyzing the future: recent advances in chemical synthesis using enzymes22
Recent progress on small molecules targeting epigenetic complexes21
Molecular and biochemical insights from natural and engineered photosynthetic endosymbiotic systems21
Recent advances in the development of peptide-based inhibitors targeting epigenetic readers of histone lysine acetylation and methylation marks21
Discovery and evolution of [4 + 2] cyclases21
Chemical synthesis and biological functions of carbohydrates20
Targeting chemotherapy-resistant tumour sub-populations using inorganic chemistry: Anti-cancer stem cell metal complexes20
Structures and functions of algal glycans shape their capacity to sequester carbon in the ocean20
The non-catalytic domains of O-GlcNAc cycling enzymes present new opportunities for function-specific control20
Recent advances in high-throughput screening methods for small molecule modulators in bacteria20
Recent strides in macromolecular targeted photodynamic therapy for cancer20
Editorial: Mechanistic biology20
Chemical probes for investigating protein liquid-liquid phase separation and aggregation20
Small-molecule tools for YEATS domain proteins20
Strategies in engineering sustainable biochemical synthesis through microbial systems20
Editorial Board20
Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists as a driving force behind next-generation vaccine adjuvants and cancer therapeutics19
Factors that influence singlet oxygen formation vs. ligand substitution for light-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds19
Show your true color: Mammalian cell surface staining for tracking cellular identity in multiplexing and beyond19
Supramolecular platinum complexes for cancer therapy19
Inhibition of p53 protein aggregation as a cancer treatment strategy19
Realgar and arsenene nanomaterials as arsenic-based anticancer agents19
Discovering functional small molecules in the gut microbiome19
Chemical biology tools to probe bacterial glycans19
Molecular probes for fluorescence image-guided cancer surgery19
Reactions of lipid hydroperoxides and how they may contribute to ferroptosis sensitivity19
Insights into SACS pathological attributes in autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)☆18
MicroRNA:Siglec crosstalk in cancer progression18
New chemical processes to streamline carbohydrate synthesis18
Editorial Board18
Functions and mechanisms of enzymes assembling lignans and norlignans18
Recent advances in de novo designed metallopeptides as tailored enzyme mimics18
Microbial metabolite-receptor interactions in the gut microbiome18
Sulfur-containing marine natural products as leads for drug discovery and development18
Recent advances in data- and knowledge-driven approaches to explore primary microbial metabolism18
Editorial Board18
Recent advances in developing degraders & inhibitors of lysine methyltransferases18
Strategies and mechanisms for endosomal escape of therapeutic nucleic acids18
Recent progress in metal-based molecular probes for optical bioimaging and biosensing17
Probing immune infiltration dynamics in cancer by in vivo imaging17
Recent advances in the design and optimization of artificial metalloenzymes17
Multimodal and multiscale correlative elemental imaging: From whole tissues down to organelles17
Foldamer-mediated transport across phospholipid bilayers17
Fluorescent sterol probes for intracellular transport, imaging, and therapeutics17
Recent advances on human milk oligosaccharide antimicrobial activity16
Recent research progress in glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein biosynthesis, chemical/chemoenzymatic synthesis, and interaction with the cell membrane16
Lanthanide-dye hybrid luminophores for advanced NIR-II bioimaging16
Extending optical chemical tools and technologies to mice by shifting to the shortwave infrared region16
Deciphering combinatorial post-translational modifications by top-down mass spectrometry16
Recent developments in probing the levels and flux of selected organellar cations as well as organellar mechanosensitivity16
Stimuli-responsive synthetic ionophores for therapeutic applications16
Emerging fluorescence tools for the study of proteostasis in cells16
Synthetic ion channels made of DNA15
Natural and artificial siderophores: Iron-based applications and beyond15
The influence of alkylating agents on sulfur–sulfur bonds in per- and polysulfides15
Molecular-level interplay between intrinsically disordered clients and Hsp9014
Metabolic interventions to enhance immunotherapy and targeted therapy efficacy in advanced colorectal cancer14
Recent advances in the expanding genetic code14
Recent advances in kinase signaling network profiling by mass spectrometry14
Development of novel indicators and molecular systems for calcium sensing through protein engineering14
Pharmacological stabilization of the native state of full-length immunoglobulin light chains to treat light chain amyloidosis14
Emerging mechanisms of regulation for endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores by secretory pathway kinase FAM20C14
Oxygen-transfer reactions by enzymatic flavin-N5 oxygen adducts—Oxidation is not a must14
Recent advances in engineering microorganisms for the production of natural food colorants14
Ancient complexes of iron and sulfur modulate oncogenes and oncometabolism14
Creating and understanding new-to-nature chemistry14
Small molecules as modulators of phage–bacteria interactions14
Recent advances in the synthesis of extensive libraries of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides for structure–activity relationship studies14
F420-dependent transformations in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites13
Advances and challenges in programming pattern formation using living cells13
Enabling structural biological electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in membrane proteins through spin labelling13
New potentiators of ineffective antibiotics: Targeting the Gram-negative outer membrane to overcome intrinsic resistance13
Editorial Board13
Quantitative interactome analysis with chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry13
Engineering novel adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) for improved delivery in the nervous system13
The multifaceted repertoire of cellular reactive metabolites12
Editorial overview - Exploring the diversity of polysaccharides12
Chemical biology approaches to uncovering nuclear ROS control12
Therapeutic synthetic anion transporters12
Illuminating antifungal mode of action and resistance with fluorescent probes12
How do metabolic processes age: Evidence from human metabolomic studies12
Biosynthesis and recruitment of reactive amino acids in nonribosomal peptide assembly lines12
KATs off: Biomedical insights from lysine acetyltransferase inhibitors12
Evolving advances of proximity labeling in capturing biomolecular interactions12
Microbial metabolism of host-derived antioxidants12
Recent advances in mass spectrometry-based methods to investigate reversible cysteine oxidation12
Expanding the viewpoint: Leveraging sequence information in enzymology11
The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in molecular pharming practices11
Recent advances in Zn2+ imaging: From organelles to in vivo applications11
Synthetic fragments of plant polysaccharides as tools for cell wall biology11
Discovering microbiota functions via chemical probe incorporation for targeted sequencing11
Substrate-selective small-molecule modulators of enzymes: Mechanisms and opportunities11
Current strategies for characterization of mucin-domain glycoproteins11
Highlights of bioinformatic tools and methods for validating bioinformatics derived hypotheses for microbial natural products research11
Editorial Board11
Inverse Drug Discovery identifies weak electrophiles affording protein conjugates11
Genetically encoding latent bioreactive amino acids and the development of covalent protein drugs11
Development of effective therapeutics for polysubstance use disorders10
Electrophilic metabolites targeting the KEAP1/NRF2 partnership10
Small-angle X-ray scattering studies of enzymes10
Convergent and divergent biosynthetic strategies towards phosphonic acid natural products10
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Decoding the cellular effects of genetic variation through interaction proteomics10
Editorial overview: Editorial of molecular imaging10
How are hydrogen peroxide messages relayed to affect cell signalling?10
An expanded molecular and systems toolbox for imaging, mapping, and controlling local translation10
Towards sequence-based principles for protein phase separation predictions10
Tuning specificity and topology of lectins through synthetic biology10
Compounds for selective translational inhibition10
A phenazine-inspired framework for identifying biological functions of microbial redox-active metabolites10
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