Chemical Tools for Imaging, Manipulating, and Tracking Biological Systems: Diverse Methods for Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Systems

- Utility of bacterial peptidoglycan recycling enzymes in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of valuable UDP sugar substrates Ophelia I. Ukaegbu, Kristen E. DeMeester, Hai Liang, Ashley R. Brown, Zachary S. Jones and Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes - Chemical tools for selective activity profiling of bacterial penicillin-binding proteins Shabnam Sharifzadeh, Nathaniel W. Brown, Joshua D. Shirley, Kevin E. Bruce, Malcolm E. Winkler and Erin E. Carlson - Fluorescent stem peptide mimics: In situ probes for peptidoglycan crosslinking Samir Gautam, Taehan Kim, Rebecca Howell and David A. Spiegel - Gram-scale preparation of the antibiotic lead compound salicyl-AMS, a potent inhibitor of bacterial salicylate adenylation enzymes Nihar Kinarivala, Lisa Standke, Tezcan Guney, Cheng Ji, Naoyoshi Noguchi, Yasutomi Asano and Derek S. Tan - Probe-enabled approaches for function-dependent cell sorting and characterization of microbiome subpopulations Andrea K. Steiger, Sarah J. Fansler, Christopher Whidbey and Aaron T. Wright - Biochemical analysis of NlpC/p60 peptidoglycan hydrolase activity Byungchul Kim, Juliel Espinosa and Howard C. Hang - Controlled release of bioactive signaling molecules using DNA-icosahedron Maulik S. Jani, Aneesh T. Veetil and Yamuna Krishnan - Imaging nascent transcription in wholemount vertebrate embryos to characterize zygotic genome activation Hui Chen and Matthew C. Good - Engineering reversible cell-cell interactions with chemical biology Clifford M. Csizmar and Carston R. Wagner - Fast phosphine-activated control of protein function using unnatural lysine analogues Joshua S. Wesalo and Alexander Deiters - Photopharmacological control of lipid function Johannes Morstein and Dirk Trauner - Expanding the substrate selectivity in SNAP/CLIP-tagging of intracellular targets Miguel Macias-Contreras, Kevin N. Little and Lei Zhu - Light-induced protein proximity by activation of gibberellic acid derivatives in living cells Michael J. Ziegler and Richard Wombacher - Photoactivatable trimethoprim-based probes for spatiotemporal control of biological processes Daniel Z. Wu, Michael A. Lampson and David M. Chenoweth - Site-specific antibody fragment conjugates for targeted imaging Robert Maloney, Zakey Yusuf Buuh, Yue Zhao and Rongsheng E. Wang - Quantifying protein-protein interactions of the acyl carrier protein with solvatochromic probes Katherine Charov and Michael D. Burkart