Nature Chemical Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Chemical Biology is 16. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sampling the rainbow297
Modified signals210
Bringing distant DNA together196
To protect and emit beauty169
Say yes to the NOS163
Peering into the cellular cycle159
Preserving the barrier156
Flipping the switch152
Motif-dependent binding on the intervening domain regulates O-GlcNAc transferase142
Avoiding arm contact139
Spatiotemporally controlled generation of NTPs for single-molecule studies130
Toying with reductive stress125
Antibody discovery identifies regulatory mechanisms of protein arginine deiminase 4120
Immobilized enzyme cascade for targeted glycosylation118
Molecular basis of threonine ADP-ribosylation of ubiquitin by bacterial ARTs118
PRMT inhibition induces a viral mimicry response in triple-negative breast cancer115
A versatile offense110
Cyclic signature104
Protecting with PROTAC101
Seeing the retention95
Design of amyloidogenic peptide traps93
Rationally seeded computational protein design of ɑ-helical barrels93
Linked to death90
Your gut on steroids89
Hunting for human ribozymes89
Building light-activated synthetic cells that induce gene expression in bacteria via quorum sensing86
Mining microbial metabolism86
Metal to the pedal86
Go with the FLOE85
Change can be SCARI83
Drugging viral factories83
Recording calcium concentrations82
Identifying p53-independent apoptosis82
A Wittig combination81
Chemical targeting of amyloids79
Cutting the tail77
CRISP(e)R drug discovery75
MNK2 deficiency potentiates β-cell regeneration via translational regulation74
Lysosome-targeting chimeras evolve73
An engineered trafficking biosensor reveals a role for DNAJC13 in DOR downregulation73
A viscous switch72
Development of cyclic peptides that can be administered orally to inhibit disease targets71
A sulfate amuse-bouche71
Evolutionary balance between foldability and functionality of a glucose transporter69
Partitioning of a 2-bit hash function across 66 communicating cells68
Aiming for the pocket68
Ubiquitin-specific proximity labeling for the identification of E3 ligase substrates68
Probiotic hat trick68
Inter-kingdom electromechanical communication68
Catalysis under stress68
Anti-aggregate activity67
Breaking down taurine67
Cryptic enzymatic assembly of peptides armed with β-lactone warheads67
The acyl carrier protein dance66
Proximity-inducing pharmacology66
Flipping the polarity switch65
A vicious cycle65
Choosing the junk64
Altering the cap64
Sensing the air63
Bump-hole ZDHHCs62
A helical fulcrum in eIF2B coordinates allosteric regulation of stress signaling61
Bacteria lose a pep in their step60
Artificial intelligence uncovers carcinogenic human metabolites60
Monoterpene metabolism unmasked58
Caught in the act58
Genes and crystals are not so separate57
Surviving salt stress57
Cas1 mediates the interference stage in a phage-encoded CRISPR–Cas system57
State of play57
Sensitive fluorescent biosensor reveals differential subcellular regulation of PKC56
Accelerating enzyme evolution55
The first step of hypusination54
Macroscopic quorum sensing sustains differentiating embryonic stem cells54
Sinking the carrier54
Sterol homeostasis in yeast53
Controllable genome editing with split-engineered base editors53
STACKing the odds for discoveries53
A structural basis for prion strain diversity52
Context-based sensing of orthosomycin antibiotics by the translating ribosome52
A place to dock51
Ub or not Ub51
A Fbxo48 inhibitor prevents pAMPKα degradation and ameliorates insulin resistance51
To TnpB or not TnpB? Cas12 is the answer51
Traffic control51
In search of chemical rationales50
The ‘Big Bang’ of the chemical universe50
Mutanofactin promotes adhesion and biofilm formation of cariogenic Streptococcus mutans49
Lights on for lipid metabolism49
Calcium-gated potassium channel blockade via membrane-facing fenestrations49
Lysine l-lactylation is the dominant lactylation isomer induced by glycolysis48
Balancing G protein selectivity and efficacy in the adenosine A2A receptor48
Author Correction: Balancing G protein selectivity and efficacy in the adenosine A2A receptor48
A new road to STING activation47
The HaloTag as a general scaffold for far-red tunable chemigenetic indicators47
The protein universe in 3D47
Strategies for monitoring cell–cell interactions47
An RNA aptamer that shifts the reduction potential of metabolic cofactors47
20 years of Nature Chemical Biology47
Molecular mechanism of allosteric modulation for the cannabinoid receptor CB146
Systematic identification of biomarker-driven drug combinations to overcome resistance46
Artificial intelligence foundation for therapeutic science46
Unlocking saponin biosynthesis in soapwort46
Coaching LSD1 to ignore acetylation46
CRISPR–dCas12a-mediated genetic circuit cascades for multiplexed pathway optimization45
A chemical probe targeting the PWWP domain alters NSD2 nucleolar localization45
Peroxisomal-derived ether phospholipids link nucleotides to respirasome assembly44
Degradable living plastics programmed by engineered spores43
A selective small-molecule STAT5 PROTAC degrader capable of achieving tumor regression in vivo43
Nonmonotone invasion landscape by noise-aware control of metastasis activator levels42
Long-term super-resolution inner mitochondrial membrane imaging with a lipid probe42
Endogenous cell membrane interactome mapping for the GLP-1 receptor in different cell types42
De novo design of buttressed loops for sculpting protein functions41
Discovery of a first-in-class CDK2 selective degrader for AML differentiation therapy41
An anti-biofilm cyclic peptide targets a secreted aminopeptidase from P. aeruginosa41
De novo designed peptides for cellular delivery and subcellular localisation40
Velcrin-induced selective cleavage of tRNALeu(TAA) by SLFN12 causes cancer cell death40
Programming cell-surface signaling by phase-separation-controlled compartmentalization40
An E. coli display method for characterization of peptide–sensor kinase interactions39
Hydrogel-based biocontainment of bacteria for continuous sensing and computation39
Programmable living assembly of materials by bacterial adhesion39
A class of anti-inflammatory lipids decrease with aging in the central nervous system39
Micropolarity governs the structural organization of biomolecular condensates39
Palmitoylated acyl protein thioesterase APT2 deforms membranes to extract substrate acyl chains39
Targeting lipid–protein interaction to treat Syk-mediated acute myeloid leukemia38
The role of G protein conformation in receptor–G protein selectivity38
Structure and mechanism of the methyltransferase ribozyme MTR138
Genetic-code-expanded cell-based therapy for treating diabetes in mice37
A roadmap to creating ferroptosis-based medicines37
A brief guideline for studies of phase-separated biomolecular condensates37
Discovery and biosynthesis of cyclic plant peptides via autocatalytic cyclases37
Programming cell-free biosensors with DNA strand displacement circuits37
Plasmodesmata mediate cell-to-cell transport of brassinosteroid hormones36
Ribosome stalling during selenoprotein translation exposes a ferroptosis vulnerability35
VCP/p97 regulates Beclin-1-dependent autophagy initiation35
Converting non-neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies into broad-spectrum inhibitors35
Hierarchical chemical determination of amyloid polymorphs in neurodegenerative disease35
Enzymatic assembly of the salinosporamide γ-lactam-β-lactone anticancer warhead35
Biocatalytic cyclization of small macrolactams by a penicillin-binding protein-type thioesterase34
Author Correction: Structure and mechanism of a methyltransferase ribozyme34
Discovery of VH domains that allosterically inhibit ENPP134
Small molecule probes for targeting autophagy34
Author Correction: Hypercompact adenine base editors based on a Cas12f variant guided by engineered RNA34
Structure and mechanism of a methyltransferase ribozyme33
Addendum: Designing microbial consortia with defined social interactions33
Author Correction: Selective inhibitors of JAK1 targeting an isoform-restricted allosteric cysteine33
Publisher Correction: Accelerated RNA detection using tandem CRISPR nucleases33
Author Correction: ML-enhanced peroxisome capacity enables compartmentalization of multienzyme pathway33
Channeling kynurenine31
Author Correction: O-GlcNAc forces an α-synuclein amyloid strain with notably diminished seeding and pathology31
Detecting features of antibody structure through their mediator-accessible redox activities31
Author Correction: Making a 6mA demethylase31
Publisher Correction: Rational discovery of molecular glue degraders via scalable chemical profiling31
Paenilamicins bind to a unique site on the ribosome to inhibit protein synthesis30
Protein Degradation in Focus30
Assembly-activated aggregation30
Macrolones target bacterial ribosomes and DNA gyrase and can evade resistance mechanisms29
Author Correction: A cytochrome c is the natural electron acceptor for nicotine oxidoreductase29
Author Correction: Genome-wide screens uncover KDM2B as a modifier of protein binding to heparan sulfate28
Chemical genomics with pyrvinium identifies C1orf115 as a regulator of drug efflux28
Target deconvolution of HDAC pharmacopoeia reveals MBLAC2 as common off-target28
Combining CRISPRi and metabolomics for functional annotation of compound libraries28
Making a 6mA demethylase28
Ancient defensive terpene biosynthetic gene clusters in the soft corals28
PAFAH2 suppresses synchronized ferroptosis to ameliorate acute kidney injury28
Chemigenetic indicators based on synthetic chelators and green fluorescent protein28
Genome-wide screens uncover KDM2B as a modifier of protein binding to heparan sulfate28
Fast and sensitive CRISPR detection by minimized interference of target amplification27
The landscape of targets and lead molecules for remyelination27
Adaptive mechanisms of plant specialized metabolism connecting chemistry to function27
Antibodies expand the scope of angiotensin receptor pharmacology27
Identification and mechanism of G protein-biased ligands for chemokine receptor CCR127
Engineered LwaCas13a with enhanced collateral activity for nucleic acid detection27
Rapid generation of potent antibodies by autonomous hypermutation in yeast27
Capturing copper to inhibit inflammation27
Characterization of a patient-derived variant of GPX4 for precision therapy27
LYTACs that engage the asialoglycoprotein receptor for targeted protein degradation27
Quantitative profiling of pseudouridylation landscape in the human transcriptome27
Depletion of creatine phosphagen energetics with a covalent creatine kinase inhibitor26
Controlling sulfation26
Determining the role of peroxidation of subcellular lipid membranes in ferroptosis26
Scrambling viral infection26
Seismic shift25
Changing plates25
Drivers of intrinsic resistance25
Overview of chemical biology at the National Natural Science Foundation of China25
A complex struggle for direction24
Cyclic nucleotides in for the kill24
Monitoring lysosomal acidity24
Peptides hit the catalysis walk24
Cascading conjugates24
Shape matching24
One-site ‘-omics’24
Metabolism from the magic angle23
Put another ring on it23
Nitrosylation rewires metabolism23
Discovery and molecular basis of subtype-selective cyclophilin inhibitors23
Amyloid conformation-dependent disaggregation in a reconstituted yeast prion system23
One-carbon footprint in B cells23
Evolving complex insulation22
A chilling effect22
Adjusting the spikes22
Translating repair22
Catch your breath22
Untying knots with force22
Mucin tuning21
Disrupting the phase balance21
Deep mutational scan of a drug efflux pump reveals its structure–function landscape21
Compromised autophagy21
Picking off persisters21
The enemy of my enemy21
A molecular shape-shifter20
TIRs on my pillow20
A new entry point20
Molecular conversations20
Stamp it here20
Efficiency by location20
Logic invades cell-free biosensing20
Modification of cell wall polysaccharide guides cell division in Streptococcus mutans20
Deform the membrane, cAPTure the lipid20
Clearing the path20
Old path, new frontier20
Brake disposal20
Small-molecule trapping of an RNA-binding protein blocks cancer cell growth19
Running through the blocks19
An antibacterial glove19
A balancing act19
Tuned out19
Lipid metabolism in T cell signaling and function19
Molecular basis for the selective G protein signaling of somatostatin receptors19
A gut feeling19
A genetic platform to investigate the functions of bacterial drug efflux pumps19
It’s in the blood19
Chemical biology tools take the strain18
Endogenous currents in HEK 293 cells are inhibited by memantine18
Pharmacological inhibition of Kir4.1 evokes rapid-onset antidepressant responses18
Cobalamin in charge18
No job too small for a giant enzyme18
Structural insight into selectivity of amylin and calcitonin receptor agonists18
The many paths ascending to ferroptosis18
Badminton at nanoscale18
Open-ended molecular recording of sequential cellular events into DNA18
Dan Salah Tawfik (1955–2021)18
The core of the matter18
DNA-encoded library-enabled discovery of proximity-inducing small molecules18
Targeting Smurf1 to block PDK1–Akt signaling in KRAS-mutated colorectal cancer18
Small-molecule inhibitors targeting Polycomb repressive complex 1 RING domain18
A C-terminal glutamine recognition mechanism revealed by E3 ligase TRIM7 structures18
Phasing out death18
A new class of metal-sensing RNA18
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