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We’re pleased to announce that a new themed collection from RSC Chemical Biology on Chemical Proteomics has now been published online.

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This collection, Guest Edited by Dr Keriann Backus (UCLA, USA) and Dr Stephan Hacker (Leiden University, Netherlands), highlights work on applications of chemoproteomics to study the targets and off-targets of covalent and non-covalent inhibitors, to study the reactivity of amino acids in the proteome, to develop new reactive groups for photocrosslinkers, covalent inhibitors and protein labeling as well as to study post-translational modifications and cofactor binding proteome-wide.

A listing of the articles has been provided below. All articles in RSC Chemical Biology are open access and free to read.

Perspective

Finding a vocation for validation: taking proteomics beyond association and location
Marcus J. C. Long, Jinmin Liu and Yimon Aye
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 110–120, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00214K

Communications

Quantitative profiling of PTM stoichiometry by resolvable mass tags
Ying Chen, Baiyi Quan, Yuanpei Li, Yuan Liu, Wei Qin and Chu Wang
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 1320–1324, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00179A

Chemoproteomic mapping of human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) interactions in cells
Abdullah A. Hassan, Jacob M. Wozniak, Zak Vilen, Weichao Li, Appaso Jadhav, Christopher G. Parker and Mia L. Huang
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 1369–1374, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00176D

Papers

The covalent reactivity of functionalized 5-hydroxy-butyrolactams is the basis for targeting of fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5) by the neurotrophic agent MT-21
Esben B. Svenningsen, Rasmus N. Ottosen, Katrine H. Jørgensen, Marija Nisavic, Camilla K. Larsen, Bente K. Hansen, Yong Wang, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Thomas Tørring, Stephan M. Hacker, Johan Palmfeldt and Thomas B. Poulsen
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 1216–1229, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00161F

A peptide-crosslinking approach identifies HSPA8 and PFKL as selective interactors of an actin-derived peptide containing reduced and oxidized methionine
Aaron Maurais and Eranthie Weerapana
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 1282–1289, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00183G

Chemical proteomic analysis of bile acid-protein targets in Enterococcus faecium
Xinglin Yang, Xiaohui Zhao, Victor Chen and Howard C. Hang
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 1397–1402, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00178K

Photoreactive bioorthogonal lipid probes and their applications in mammalian biology
Karthik Shanbhag, Kavita Sharma and Siddhesh S. Kamat
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 37–46, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00174H

Predicting small molecule binding pockets on diacylglycerol kinases using chemoproteomics and AlphaFold
Roberto Mendez, Minhaj Shaikh, Michael C. Lemke, Kun Yuan, Adam H. Libby, Dina L. Bai, Mark M. Ross, Thurl E. Harris and Ku-Lung Hsu
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2023, 3, 422–430, DOI: 10.1039/D3CB00057E

We hope you enjoy this new themed collection from RSC Chemical Biology.

RSC Chemical Biology is delighted to welcome papers for its latest online themed collection on ‘Medicinal Chemistry Small Molecule Probes’, guest edited by John Spencer (University of Sussex, UK), Gemma Nixon (University of Liverpool, UK), and Miraz Rahman (King’s College London, UK).

Contributions are welcome which investigate general medicinal chemistry, chemical probes for imaging, proteomics, protacs, fragment-based drug discovery, covalent binders, chemical tools for protein profiling and activity modulation, and natural product inspired medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.

The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2023. Submit your work to the collection now!

Promotion of the collection is scheduled for late 2023, with articles published online as soon as they’re accepted.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication or Full Paper. Articles can be submitted via our website: rsc.li/rsc-chembio. When submitting your manuscript, please mention that it is intended for this themed collection in the “notes to the editor” box. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions for both the journal and the scope of the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

Explore all open calls for papers from RSC journals!

About RSC Chemical Biology:

Led by Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo), RSC Chemical Biology is dedicated to publishing and disseminating the most exceptionally significant, breakthrough findings of interest to the chemical biology community. All submissions are handled by our experienced and internationally recognised Associate Editors. For more information on the journal, please visit the journal homepage.

As a gold open access journal, there are no barriers to accessing content and your research article will reach an international audience. Articles accepted for publication in this themed collection will have their article processing charges waived.

RSC Chemical Biology is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index. Find out more about the journal and submit your work at rsc.li/rsc-chembio.

We’re pleased to announce that a new themed collection from RSC Chemical Biology has now been published online.

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Guest-edited by Chengqi Yi (Peking University, China) and Yan Zhang (Nanjing University, China), this collection highlights work on bio-orthogonal chemistry, reactions and probes in labeling, manipulating, imaging and sequencing of protein, DNA, RNA and bioactive metabolites.

The article line-up is provided below. All articles in RSC Chemical Biology are open access and free to read.

Editorial

Introduction to ‘Development of bio-orthogonal tools’
Yan Zhang and Chengqi Yi
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB90045A

Reviews

Labeling and sequencing nucleic acid modifications using bio-orthogonal tools
Hui Liu, Yafen Wang and Xiang Zhou
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 994–1007, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00087C

Imitate to illuminate: labeling of bacterial peptidoglycan with fluorescent and bio-orthogonal stem peptide-mimicking probes
Huibin Lin, Chaoyong Yang and Wei Wang
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 1198–1208, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00086E

Papers

A library of Rhodamine6G-based pH-sensitive fluorescent probes with versatile in vivo and in vitro applications
Benton Swanson, Margaret Durdan, Miranda Eberle, Seth Woodbury, Ava Mauser, Jason Gregory, Boya Zhang, David Niemann, Jacob Herremans, Peter X. Ma, Joerg Lahann, Megan Weivoda, Yuji Mishina and Colin F. Greineder
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 748–764, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00030J

Methyltetrazine as a small live-cell compatible bioorthogonal handle for imaging enzyme activities in situ
Diana Torres-García, Merel A. T. van de Plassche, Emma van Boven, Tyrza van Leeuwen, Mirjam G. J. Groenewold, Alexi J. C. Sarris, Luuk Klein, Herman S. Overkleeft and Sander I. van Kasteren
RSC. Chem. Biol., 2022, 3, 1325–1330, DOI: 10.1039/D2CB00120A

We hope you enjoy this new themed collection from RSC Chemical Biology.