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Abstract
DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology has enabled efficient discovery of both non-covalent and covalent inhibitors, with covalent binders typically identified via covalent DELs (CoDELs) containing diverse electrophilic warheads. Recent developments have expanded CoDEL applications beyond cysteine to residues like lysine, tyrosine, arginine, and glutamic acid. The integration of CoDEL with activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) has further enabled the identification of potential protein targets for CoDEL screening using residue-selective warheads. Additionally, proteome profiling with fully-functionalized tags has guided target identification for focused DELs with privileged structures. This review highlights recent advances in CoDEL technologies for targeting both cysteine and non-cysteine residues, and discusses how proteomics facilitates hit discovery through CoDELs and focused DELs.
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Current Opinion in Structural Biology (COSB) aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multi-scale debate and exchange of ideas. It contains polished, concise and timely reviews and opinions, with particular emphasis on those articles published in the past two years. In addition to describing recent trends, the authors are encouraged to give their subjective opinion of the topics discussed.
In COSB, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner:
1. The views of experts on current advances in their field in a clear and readable form.
2. Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original publications.
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The subject of Structural Biology is divided into twelve themed sections, each of which is reviewed once a year. Each issue contains two sections, and the amount of space devoted to each section is related to its importance.
-Folding and Binding-
Nucleic acids and their protein complexes-
Macromolecular Machines-
Theory and Simulation-
Sequences and Topology-
New constructs and expression of proteins-
Membranes-
Engineering and Design-
Carbohydrate-protein interactions and glycosylation-
Biophysical and molecular biological methods-
Multi-protein assemblies in signalling-
Catalysis and Regulation