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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Structure-Guided Design of a Bioactive Covalent Small Molecule Targeting a Riboswitch.

Chungen Li, Xueyi Yang, Kyle A Dickerson, Patrick R A Zanon, Noah A Springer, Jielei Wang, Yilin Jia, Nikhil C Munshi, Robert T Batey, Matthew D Disney

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Site-Selective Ligand Selection by Mutational Profiling for Covalent RNA Targeting.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Chungen LiDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Xueyi YangDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Kyle A DickersonDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0596, United States.
Patrick R A ZanonDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8883-8275
Noah A SpringerDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Jielei WangDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Yilin JiaDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.
Nikhil C MunshiDepartment of Medical Oncology, Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
Robert T BateyDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0596, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1384-6625
Matthew D DisneyDepartment of Chemistry, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8486-1796

Funding

Riboswitches and their application to RNA visualization and transcription factor interactions with the transcriptomeR35GM152029 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI Robert T Batey · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM152029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small molecule ligands targeting structured RNA elements hold promise for modulating RNA function, serving as chemical probes and potential therapeutics. In this study, the characterization of phenylglyoxal-based covalent probe designed to target unpaired guanine residues in structured RNAs is reported. A structure-guided design strategy was employed to modify covalently unpaired guanines critical for flavin mononucleotide (FMN) binding to the FMN riboswitch. Covalent modification occurs at the designed site and modulates riboswitch function in a cellular reporter system, highlighting the potential of covalent mechanisms of action for bioactive RNA ligands.

Indexed as

Drug DesignRiboswitchSmall Molecule LibrariesFlavin MononucleotideLigandsModels, MolecularMolecular StructureNucleic Acid ConformationFlavin MononucleotideLigandsRiboswitchSmall Molecule Libraries

Identifiers

PMID41056098
PMCPMC12550836

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