We’re pleased to announce that the latest RSC Chemical Biology Emerging Investigators collection has now been published online!

RSC Chemical Biology is proud to present this collection of invited contributions from early career researchers who are making significant contributions to the field of chemical biology. Congratulations to all of the featured researchers!
A selection of the articles has been provided below. Read the full collection at https://rsc.li/cbemi25
All articles in RSC Chemical Biology are open access and free to read.
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Contributors to the 2025 RSC Chemical Biology Emerging Investigators Collection
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2025, DOI: 10.1039/D5CB90052B
Communications
Efficient synthesis of O-glycosylated amino acids
Felicity J. Frank, Rebecca A. Lawson and Tom E. McAllister
RSC Chem. Biol., 2025, 6, 851-856, DOI: 10.1039/D5CB00076A
P450 cyptide synthase MpoB catalyzes the cross-linking of the YPW motif on the precursor peptide
Abujunaid Habib Khan, Jabal Rahmat Haedar, Vic Kiselov, Viktors Romanuks, Gints Smits, Stefano Donadio and Chin-Soon Phan
RSC Chem. Biol., 2025, 6, 1386-1390, DOI: 10.1039/D5CB00153F
Papers
The SpyBLI cell-free pipeline for the rapid quantification of binding kinetics from crude samples
Olga Predeina, Misha Atkinson, Oliver Wissett, Montader Ali, Cristina Visentin, Stefano Ricagno, Anthony H. Keeble, Mark R. Howarth and Pietro Sormanni
RSC Chem. Biol., 2025, 6, 1313-1327, DOI: 10.1039/D5CB00079C
Structure-guided engineering of a polyphosphate kinase 2 class III from an Erysipelotrichaceae bacterium to produce base-modified purine nucleotides
Rachel M. Mitton-Fry, René Rasche, Ann-Marie Lawrence-Dörner, Jannik Eschenbach, Aileen Tekath, Andrea Rentmeister, Daniel Kümmel and Nicolas V. Cornelissen
RSC Chem. Biol., 2025, 6, 1328-1335, DOI: 10.1039/D5CB00108K
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