Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to “Shedding light on complexity of protein–protein interactions in cancer” [Curr Opin Chem Biol 53 (2019) 75-81]187
Small-molecule modulators of protein–RNA interactions121
Fluorogenic polymethine dyes by intramolecular cyclization107
Glycoengineering in antigen-specific immunotherapies98
Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis85
Engineered metallobiocatalysts for energy–relevant reactions85
Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperones83
Imaging of proteases using activity-based probes74
Glycosidase mechanisms: Sugar conformations and reactivity in endo- and exo-acting enzymes69
Blurred lines: Crossing the boundaries between the chemical exposome and the metabolome67
Synthetic transporters for oxoanions66
Caged lipid probes for controlling lipid levels on subcellular scales60
Site-specific bioconjugation and nuclear imaging57
Extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics research55
New strategies for fluorescently labeling proteins in the study of amyloids54
Accessing and exploring the unusual chemistry by radical SAM-RiPP enzymes54
The Ramifications of synthetic biology53
Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules53
Characteristics of genetic tags for correlative light and electron microscopy50
Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome49
Chemical inhibitors of transcription-associated kinases48
Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation47
Past, present, and perspectives of protein N-terminal methylation47
Multinuclear non-heme iron dependent oxidative enzymes (MNIOs) involved in unusual peptide modifications44
Chemo- and opto-genetic tools for dissecting the role of membrane contact sites in living cells: Recent advances and limitations42
Critical considerations in N-glycoproteomics42
Chemical probes for tagging mycobacterial lipids42
Selenium vitaminology: The connection between selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, and ergothioneine41
Genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for metals in biology38
Highlighting the roles of transition metals and speciation in chemical biology37
Chemical engineering of bacterial effectors for regulating cell signaling and responses36
Advances in the understanding and exploitation of carbohydrate-active enzymes36
Network biology bridges the gaps between quantitative genetics and multi-omics to map complex diseases36
From the forest floor to the lab: Insights into the diversity and complexity of mushroom polyketide synthases36
Opportunity knocks for uncovering the new function of an understudied nucleosome remodeling complex member, the bromodomain PHD finger transcription factor, BPTF35
Understanding and controlling amyloid aggregation with chirality35
Editorial Board35
Editorial Board35
How nature incorporates sulfur and selenium into bioactive natural products34
Natural and engineered precision antibiotics in the context of resistance34
Super-multiplexed vibrational probes: Being colorful makes a difference34
Chemical approaches for investigating site-specific protein S-fatty acylation33
Towards chemoenzymatic labeling strategies for profiling protein glycosylation33
Emerging tools for bioluminescence imaging33
Protein sequence design with deep generative models33
Mechanism and inhibition of BRAF kinase32
Induced proximity tools for precise manipulation of lipid signaling31
A chemical field guide to histone nonenzymatic modifications31
Recent advancements in mass spectrometry–based tools to investigate newly synthesized proteins31
Recent advances in computational algorithms and software for large-scale glycoproteomics30
Emergence of (hydro)persulfides as suppressors of lipid peroxidation and ferroptotic cell death30
Catalytic amyloids: Is misfolding folding?30
Recent progress of TP/NIR fluorescent probes for metal ions30
Targeting Son of Sevenless 1: The pacemaker of KRAS29
Reducing the renal retention of low- to moderate-molecular-weight radiopharmaceuticals29
Sulfoxides in medicine29
Virus-assisted directed evolution of biomolecules29
Chemoenzymatic strategies for RNA modification and labeling28
Structural insights into the half-of-sites reactivity in homodimeric and homotetrameric metalloenzymes28
Transferring enzyme features to molecular CO2 reduction catalysts27
Emerging mammalian gene switches for controlling implantable cell therapies27
Cysteine and methionine oxidation in thrombotic disorders27
Recent advances in N- and C-terminus cysteine protein bioconjugation27
New approaches to target RNA binding proteins26
Targeted protein degradation: Emerging concepts and protein state-specific targeting principles26
Emerging artificial metalloenzymes for asymmetric hydrogenation reactions25
Molecular anchoring and fluorescent labeling in animals compatible with tissue clearing for 3D imaging25
Inhibition of glutaminolysis in combination with other therapies to improve cancer treatment25
Structural insights into auxiliary cofactor usage by radical S-adenosylmethionine enzymes25
Molecular glues to stabilise protein–protein interactions24
Bacterial peptidoglycan as a living polymer24
SOD mimics: From the tool box of the chemists to cellular studies24
Small-molecule organoselenocyanates: Recent developments toward synthesis, anticancer, and antioxidant activities24
Recent advances in chemical synthesis of O-linked glycopeptides and glycoproteins: An advanced synthetic tool for exploring the biological realm23
Integrated mass spectrometry strategy for functional protein complex discovery and structural characterization23
Synthesis and application of bacterial exopolysaccharides23
Synthetic peptide scaffolds as ion channels and molecular carriers22
Exploring amyloid oligomers with peptide model systems22
Metabolomics-guided utilization of beneficial microbes for climate-resilient crops22
Inhibitors of DHHC family proteins21
Promoting remyelination: A case study in regenerative medicine21
Advancing mass spectrometry–based glycoproteomic software tools for comprehensive site-specific glycoproteome analysis21
Finding ways into the cytosol: Peptide-mediated approaches for delivering proteins into cells21
Fluorescent indicators for imaging membrane potential of organelles21
Peptides for disrupting and degrading amyloids21
Immunogenic cell death-inducing metal complexes: From the benchtop to the clinic21
New frontiers in sulfur and selenium chemical biology21
Advancements in chemical biology targeting the kinases and phosphatases of RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription20
Probing metalloenzyme dynamics in living systems: Contemporary advances in fluorescence imaging tools and applications20
Engineering the bilayer: Emerging genetic tool kits for mechanistic lipid biology20
Lipidomics analysis in drug discovery and development20
Glutathione dynamics in subcellular compartments and implications for drug development20
Strategies for quantifying the enzymatic activities of glycoside hydrolases within cells and in vivo20
Protein-based models offer mechanistic insight into complex nickel metalloenzymes19
Editorial Board19
Editorial overview: Amyloid-inspired synthetic biomolecules19
Analytical techniques in chemical biology19
Editorial overview: Synthetic biomolecules for probing lipid membranes19
Metalloprotein enabled redox signal transduction in microbes19
Editorial Board19
Editorial Board19
Sensing and regulation of reactive sulfur species (RSS) in bacteria18
Recent advances in the structural biology of modular polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases18
Catalyzing the future: recent advances in chemical synthesis using enzymes18
Editorial overview: Recent advances in metabolomics18
Image-based cell phenotyping with deep learning18
Editorial Board18
Allosteric SHP2 inhibitors in cancer: Targeting the intersection of RAS, resistance, and the immune microenvironment18
Myeloid C-type lectin receptors in host–pathogen interactions and glycan-based targeting18
Rethinking protein aggregation and drug discovery in neurodegenerative diseases: Why we need to embrace complexity?18
Recent advances on the synthesis of N-linked glycoprotein for the elucidation of glycan functions18
Structures and functions of algal glycans shape their capacity to sequester carbon in the ocean17
Chemical probes for investigating protein liquid-liquid phase separation and aggregation17
Editorial: Mechanistic biology17
Recent advances in the mass spectrometric profiling of bacterial lipids17
Recent advances in the development of peptide-based inhibitors targeting epigenetic readers of histone lysine acetylation and methylation marks17
Discovery and evolution of [4 + 2] cyclases17
Strategies in engineering sustainable biochemical synthesis through microbial systems16
Hyperpolarized MRI, functional MRI, MR spectroscopy and CEST to provide metabolic information in vivo16
Molecular probes for fluorescence image-guided cancer surgery16
Recent advances in high-throughput screening methods for small molecule modulators in bacteria16
Recent progress on small molecules targeting epigenetic complexes16
Discovering functional small molecules in the gut microbiome16
The non-catalytic domains of O-GlcNAc cycling enzymes present new opportunities for function-specific control16
Factors that influence singlet oxygen formation vs. ligand substitution for light-activated ruthenium anticancer compounds16
Structures of chromatin modulators in complex with nucleosome16
Small-molecule tools for YEATS domain proteins16
Chemical biology tools to probe bacterial glycans16
Recent strides in macromolecular targeted photodynamic therapy for cancer16
Supramolecular platinum complexes for cancer therapy15
Targeting chemotherapy-resistant tumour sub-populations using inorganic chemistry: Anti-cancer stem cell metal complexes15
Insights into SACS pathological attributes in autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)☆15
Emerging chelators for nuclear imaging15
Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists as a driving force behind next-generation vaccine adjuvants and cancer therapeutics15
Inhibition of p53 protein aggregation as a cancer treatment strategy15
Adapting protein sequences for optimized therapeutic efficacy15
Reactions of lipid hydroperoxides and how they may contribute to ferroptosis sensitivity15
Corrigendum to “Interaction profiling methods to map protein and pathway targets of bioactive ligands”, [Curr Opin Chem Biol 54 (February 2020) 76–84]15
Realgar and arsenene nanomaterials as arsenic-based anticancer agents15
Editorial Board14
Multimodal and multiscale correlative elemental imaging: From whole tissues down to organelles14
Metabolite assemblies: A surprising extension to the amyloid hypothesis14
Intrinsically disordered proteins and biomolecular condensates as drug targets14
Fluorescent sterol probes for intracellular transport, imaging, and therapeutics14
Recent advances in data- and knowledge-driven approaches to explore primary microbial metabolism14
Targeting of extracellular protein–protein interactions with macrocyclic peptides14
Functions and mechanisms of enzymes assembling lignans and norlignans14
Editorial Board14
Systems for in vivo hypermutation: a quest for scale and depth in directed evolution14
Show your true color: Mammalian cell surface staining for tracking cellular identity in multiplexing and beyond14
Imaging-guided nanomedicine development14
Probing immune infiltration dynamics in cancer by in vivo imaging13
MicroRNA:Siglec crosstalk in cancer progression13
Recent progress in metal-based molecular probes for optical bioimaging and biosensing13
Microbial metabolite-receptor interactions in the gut microbiome13
Recent advances in developing degraders & inhibitors of lysine methyltransferases13
Recent advances in the design and optimization of artificial metalloenzymes13
Sulfur-containing marine natural products as leads for drug discovery and development13
In silico, in vitro, and in vivo machine learning in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering13
New chemical processes to streamline carbohydrate synthesis13
Strategies and mechanisms for endosomal escape of therapeutic nucleic acids13
Stimuli-responsive synthetic ionophores for therapeutic applications12
Synthetic ion channels made of DNA12
Extending optical chemical tools and technologies to mice by shifting to the shortwave infrared region12
Foldamer-mediated transport across phospholipid bilayers12
Lanthanide-dye hybrid luminophores for advanced NIR-II bioimaging12
Recent research progress in glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein biosynthesis, chemical/chemoenzymatic synthesis, and interaction with the cell membrane12
Maximizing content across scales: Moving multimodal microscopy and mesoscopy toward molecular imaging12
Molecular-level interplay between intrinsically disordered clients and Hsp9011
Development of novel indicators and molecular systems for calcium sensing through protein engineering11
Deciphering combinatorial post-translational modifications by top-down mass spectrometry11
The influence of alkylating agents on sulfur–sulfur bonds in per- and polysulfides11
Emerging mechanisms of regulation for endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores by secretory pathway kinase FAM20C11
Recent advances in the expanding genetic code11
Pharmacological stabilization of the native state of full-length immunoglobulin light chains to treat light chain amyloidosis11
Recent advances on human milk oligosaccharide antimicrobial activity11
Cytokine engineering for targeted cancer immunotherapy11
Oxygen-transfer reactions by enzymatic flavin-N5 oxygen adducts—Oxidation is not a must11
Metabolic interventions to enhance immunotherapy and targeted therapy efficacy in advanced colorectal cancer11
Emerging fluorescence tools for the study of proteostasis in cells11
Small molecules as modulators of phage–bacteria interactions10
Recent advances in kinase signaling network profiling by mass spectrometry10
Advances and challenges in programming pattern formation using living cells10
F420-dependent transformations in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites10
Editorial overview: Hot targets and new modalities10
Recent advances in engineering microorganisms for the production of natural food colorants10
Enabling structural biological electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in membrane proteins through spin labelling10
Recent advances in the synthesis of extensive libraries of heparan sulfate oligosaccharides for structure–activity relationship studies10
Recent developments in ligands and chemical probes targeting solute carrier transporters10
Quantitative interactome analysis with chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry10
Engineering novel adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) for improved delivery in the nervous system10
Ancient complexes of iron and sulfur modulate oncogenes and oncometabolism10
Editorial Board10
New potentiators of ineffective antibiotics: Targeting the Gram-negative outer membrane to overcome intrinsic resistance10
Microbial metabolism of host-derived antioxidants10
How do metabolic processes age: Evidence from human metabolomic studies9
Therapeutic synthetic anion transporters9
Biosynthesis and recruitment of reactive amino acids in nonribosomal peptide assembly lines9
Recent advances in Zn2+ imaging: From organelles to in vivo applications9
Highlights of bioinformatic tools and methods for validating bioinformatics derived hypotheses for microbial natural products research9
Synthetic fragments of plant polysaccharides as tools for cell wall biology9
Editorial overview - Exploring the diversity of polysaccharides9
Chemical biology approaches to uncovering nuclear ROS control9
Substrate-selective small-molecule modulators of enzymes: Mechanisms and opportunities9
Discovering microbiota functions via chemical probe incorporation for targeted sequencing9
The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in molecular pharming practices9
Recent advances in mass spectrometry-based methods to investigate reversible cysteine oxidation9
Illuminating antifungal mode of action and resistance with fluorescent probes9
KATs off: Biomedical insights from lysine acetyltransferase inhibitors9
A phenazine-inspired framework for identifying biological functions of microbial redox-active metabolites9
Machine learning for profile prediction in genomics9
Inverse Drug Discovery identifies weak electrophiles affording protein conjugates9
Current strategies for characterization of mucin-domain glycoproteins8
Direct visualization and profiling of protein misfolding and aggregation in live cells8
Decoding the cellular effects of genetic variation through interaction proteomics8
Small-angle X-ray scattering studies of enzymes8
Towards sequence-based principles for protein phase separation predictions8
Programmable tools for targeted analysis of epigenetic DNA modifications8
Expanding the viewpoint: Leveraging sequence information in enzymology8
Editorial Board8
An expanded molecular and systems toolbox for imaging, mapping, and controlling local translation8
Tuning specificity and topology of lectins through synthetic biology8
Genetically encoding latent bioreactive amino acids and the development of covalent protein drugs8
Electrophilic metabolites targeting the KEAP1/NRF2 partnership8
Recent advances in drug repurposing using machine learning8
Development of effective therapeutics for polysubstance use disorders8
How are hydrogen peroxide messages relayed to affect cell signalling?8
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