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2025

Wang, Y., Sonani, R. R., Marshall, L., Bianco, S., Marshall, K., Pincham, A., Yang, H., Serpell, L. C., Seddon, A. M., Egelman, E. H., Thomson, A. R., Adams, D. J. (2025) Self-assembly of off-target peptide sequences: implications for the design of soft materials. Small, (doi: 10.1002/smll.202507714)

Marshall, O., Sutherland, A. (2025) Expanding the fluorescent toolkit: molecular design, synthesis and biological application of unnatural amino acids. Chemical Science,

Burianova, V. K., Zeng, L., Thom, A. W., Radcliffe-Kennedy, N. C., Magennis, S., Sutherland, A. (2025) Environment-sensitive fluorescent tryptophan analogues via indole C-2 alkenylation reactions. Chemical Communications, 61, pp. 11621-11624. (doi: 10.1039/D5CC02114F)

Marshall, O., Sutherland, A. (2025) One-pot synthesis of alkynyl-conjugated phenylalanine analogues for peptide-based fluorescent imaging. Organic Letters, 27, pp. 8023-8027. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c02361)

Brettell, S. B., Cann, G., Begen, A., Sharma, S., Mahindra, A., Carruthers, L. V., Milligan, G., Clarke, D. J., Tobin, A. B., Jamieson, A. G. (2025) Lysine targeting covalent inhibitors of malarial kinase PfCLK3. RSC Medicinal Chemistry, (doi: 10.1039/d5md00335k)

Waddell, L. J.N., Okunade, O. A.M., Dodds, A. C., Lok, M. C.H., Khanizeman, R. N., Sutherland, A. (2025) Iron-catalyzed thioarylation of arenes using saccharin-derived reagents. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 90, pp. 5564-5573. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.5c00250)

Burianova, V. K., Mcerlain, H., Sutherland, A. (2025) Transition-metal-mediated radiohalogenation using aryl boron reagents. Synthesis, 57, pp. 1402-1414. (doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1775408)

Zeng, L., Marshall, O., McGrory, R., Clarke, R., Brown, R. J., Kadodwala, M., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A. (2025) Synthesis of fluorescent dibenzofuran α-amino acids: conformationally rigid analogues of tyrosine. Organic Letters, 27, pp. 2475-2479. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c00433)

Morgan, D. C., McDougall, L., Knuhtsen, A., Buetow, L., Steven, C. F., Shepperson, O., Huang, D. T., Hulme, A. N., Jamieson, A. G. (2025) Raman active diyne-Girder conformationally constrained p53 stapled peptides bind to MDM2 for visualisation without fluorophores. RSC Chemical Biology, 6, pp. 394-403. (doi: 10.1039/D4CB00288A)

Eaglesfield, R., Fernandez-Vizarra, E., Lacko, E., Caldwell, S. T., Sloan, N. L., Siciarz, D., Hartley, R. C., Tokatlidis, K. (2025) Sub-organellar mitochondrial hydrogen peroxide observed using a SNAP tag targeted coumarin-based fluorescent reporter. Redox Biology, 80, (doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2025.103502)

Marshall, O., McGrory, R., Songsri, S., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A. (2025) Expedient discovery of fluorogenic amino acid-based probes via one-pot palladium-catalysed arylation of tyrosine. Chemical Science, 16, pp. 3490-3497. (doi: 10.1039/D5SC00020C)

Morgan, T. E. F., Grant, E. K., Shaw, R. C., Waddell, L. J. N., Henry, M. C., McErlain, H., Alcaide-Corral, C. J., Pimlott, S. L., Tavares, A. A. S., Sutherland, A. (2025) Synthesis and evaluation of 6-arylaminobenzamides as positron emission tomography imaging ligands for the sphingosine-1-phosphate-5 receptor. RSC Medicinal Chemistry, (doi: 10.1039/D4MD00929K)

Luk, C. et al. (2025) Paracrine role of endothelial IGF-1 receptor in depot-specific adipose tissue adaptation in male mice. Nature Communications, 16, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54669-1)

2024

Brettell, S. B., Janha, O., Begen, A., Cann, G., Sharma, S., Olaniyan, N., Yelland, T., Hole, A. J., Alam, B., Mayville, E., Gillespie, R., Capper, M., Fidock, D. A., Milligan, G., Clarke, D. J., Tobin, A. B., Jamieson, A. G. (2024) Targeting PfCLK3 with covalent inhibitors: a novel strategy for malaria treatment. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 67, pp. 18895-18910. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c01300)

Vosbein, P., Vergara, P. P., Huang, D. T., Thomson, A. R. (2024) An engineered ubiquitin binding coiled coil peptide. Chemical Science, 15, pp. 15776-15782. (doi: 10.1039/d4sc04204b)

Chaubey, S. K., Kumar, R., Lalaguna, P. L., Kartau, M., Bianco, S., Tabouillot, V., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A., Lyutakov, O., Gadegaard, N., Karimullah, A. S., Kadodwala, M. (2024) Ultrasensitive Raman detection of biomolecular conformation at the attomole scale using chiral nanophotonics. Small, 20, (doi: 10.1002/smll.202404536)

Vosbein, P., Paredes Vergara, P., Huang, D. T., Thomson, D. (2024) AlphaFold ensemble competition screens enable peptide binder design with single-residue sensitivity. ACS Chemical Biology, 19, pp. 2198-2205. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00418)

Faragher, R. G. A., Hartley, R. C. (2024) Drug discovery for ageing: SIMPs, NEDs and screening challenges. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 23, pp. 725-726. (doi: 10.1038/d41573-024-00087-3)

Masclef, J.-B., Acs, E. M. N., Koehnke, J., Prunet, J., Schmidt, B. V.K.J. (2024) PEGose block poly(lactic acid) nanoparticles for cargo delivery. Macromolecules, 57, pp. 6013-6023. (doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c00528)

Songsri, S., McErlain, H., Sutherland, A. (2024) Stereoselective synthesis of meso- and L,L-diaminopimelic acids from enone-derived α-amino acids. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89, pp. 10363-10370. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c00916)

Riley, L. M., Marshall, O., Harkiss, A. H., Senn, H. M., Sutherland, A. (2024) Synthesis of β-pyridyl α-amino acids: conformationally sensitive charge transfer-based fluorophores. Organic Letters, 26, pp. 5391-5395. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01951)

Masclef, J.-B., Prunet, J., Schmidt, B. V.K.J. (2024) Synthesis of PEG-polycycloether block copolymers: poloxamer mimics containing a rigid helical block. Advanced Science, 11, (doi: 10.1002/advs.202310277)

Clarke, R., Zeng, L., Atkinson, B. C., Kadodwala, M., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A. (2024) Fluorescent carbazole-derived α-amino acids; structural mimics of tryptophan. Chemical Science, 15, pp. 5944-5949. (doi: 10.1039/D4SC01173B)

Cardwell, P. A., Del Moro, C., Murphy, M. P., Lapthorn, A. J., Hartley, R. C. (2024) Human mitochondrial glutathione transferases: Kinetic parameters and accommodation of a mitochondria-targeting group in substrates. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 104, (doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117712)

Bai, M., Gallen, E., Memarzadeh, S., Howie, J., GAO, X., Kuo, C.-W. S., Brown, E., Swingler, S., Wilson, S. J., Shattock, M. J., France, D. J., Fuller, W. (2024) Targeted degradation of zDHHC-PATs decreases substrate S -palmitoylation. PLoS ONE, 19, (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299665)

Knyzeliene, A., MacAskill, M. G., Alcaide-Corral, C. J., Morgan, T. E., Henry, M. C., Lucatelli, C., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A., Tavares, A. A.S. (2024) [18F]LW223 has low non-displaceable binding in murine brain, enabling high sensitivity TSPO PET imaging. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 44, pp. 397-406. (doi: 10.1177/0271678x231205661)

Dell, M., Tran, M. A., Capper, M. J., Sundaram, S., Fiedler, J., Koehnke, J., Hellmich, U. A., Hertweck, C. (2024) Trapping of a polyketide synthase module after C−C bond formation reveals transient acyl carrier domain interactions. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 63, (doi: 10.1002/anie.202315850)

McErlain, H., Andrews, M. J., Watson, A. J.B., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A. (2024) Ligand-enabled copper-mediated radioiodination of arenes. Organic Letters, 26, pp. 1528-1532. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c00356)

Chintalapudi, V., Wilson, C., Clark, J. S. (2024) Synthesis of the I-K fused polyether array of CTX3C and related ciguatoxins by use of a gold-catalyzed cyclization reaction. Organic Letters, 26, pp. 769-976. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c03782)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2024) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 41, pp. 157-161. (doi: 10.1039/d4np90005g)

Waddell, L. J.N., Wilson, C., Sutherland, A. (2024) Trifluoromethylthiolation of Arenes using Lewis acid and Lewis base dual catalysis. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89, pp. 1275-1284. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c02571)

2023

Triantafyllakis, M., Alexander, S., Woolford, S., Wilson, C., Clark, J. S. (2023) Synthesis of the A−F fragment of the Pacific ciguatoxin CTX3C by iterative ring-closing metathesis and Tsuji–Trost allylation. Chemistry: A European Journal, 27, (doi: 10.1002/chem.202303121)

Dodds, A. C., Sansom, H. G., Magennis, S. W., Sutherland, A. (2023) Synthesis of Thiazoloindole α‑Amino Acids: Chromophores Amenable to One- and Two-Photon Induced Fluorescence. Organic Letters, 25, pp. 8942-8946. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c03851)

Mcguire, K., He, S., Gracie, J., Bryson, C., Zheng, D., Clark, A. W., Koehnke, J., France, D. J., Nau, W. M., Lee, T.-C., Peveler, W. J. (2023) Supramolecular click chemistry for surface modification of quantum dots mediated by Cucurbit[7]uril. ACS Nano, 17, pp. 21585-21594. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c06601)

Sikandar, A., Popoff, A., Jumde, R. P., Mándi, A., Kaur, A., Elgaher, W. A. M., Rosenberger, L., Hüttel, S., Jansen, R., Hunter, M., Köhnke, J., Hirsch, A. K. H., Kurtán, T., Müller, R. (2023) Revision of the absolute configurations of chelocardin and amidochelocardin. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, (doi: 10.1002/anie.202306437)

Dodds, A. C., Waddell, L. J.N., Sutherland, A. (2023) Regioselective functionalization of arenes using iron triflimide catalysis. Synlett, 34, pp. 1852-1865. (doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1751445)

McGrory, R., Clarke, R., Marshall, O., Sutherland, A. (2023) Fluorescent α-amino acids via Heck–Matsuda reactions of phenylalanine-derived arenediazonium salts. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 21, pp. 6932-6939. (doi: 10.1039/d3ob01096a)

Kolling, D., Haupenthal, J., Hirsch, A., Koehnke, J. (2023) Facile production of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factor LasB in Escherichia coli for structure‐based drug design. ChemBioChem, 24, (doi: 10.1002/cbic.202300185)

Songsri, S., Harkiss, A. H., Sutherland, A. (2023) Synthesis and photophysical properties of charge-transfer based pyrimidine-derived ∝-amino acids. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 88, pp. 13214-13224. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c01437)

McGrory, R., Morgan, D. C., Jamieson, A. G., Sutherland, A. (2023) Rotamer-controlled dual emissive α-amino acids. Organic Letters, 25, pp. 5844-5849. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c02112)

Audic, A., Prunet, J. (2023) Synthesis of the CDF ring system of hexacyclinic acid. Synthesis, 55, pp. 2333-2342. (doi: 10.1055/a-2022-1809)

Morgan, D. C., McDougall, L., Knuhtsen, A., Jamieson, A. G. (2023) Development of bifunctional, Raman active diyne‐girder stapled α‐helical peptides. Chemistry: A European Journal, 29, (doi: 10.1002/chem.202300855)

Waddell, L. J.N., Senkans, M. R., Sutherland, A. (2023) Regioselective C–H thiocyanation of arenes by iron(III) chloride catalysis. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 88, pp. 7208-7218. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00454)

Uno, S., Harkiss, A. H., Chowdhury, R., Caldwell, S. T., Prime, T. A., James, A. M., Gallagher, B., Prudent, J., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P. (2023) Incorporating a polyethyleneglycol linker to enhance the hydrophilicity of mitochondria‐targeted triphenylphosphonium constructs. ChemBioChem, 24, (doi: 10.1002/cbic.202200774)

Adam, S., Zheng, D., Klein, A., Volz, C., Mullen, W., Shirran, S. L., Smith, B. O., Kalinina, O. V., Müller, R., Koehnke, J. (2023) Unusual peptide-binding proteins guide pyrroloindoline alkaloid formation in crocagin biosynthesis. Nature Chemistry, 15, pp. 560-568. (doi: 10.1038/s41557-023-01153-w)

Riley, L., Mclay, T. N., Sutherland, A. (2023) Synthesis and fluorescent properties of alkynyl- and alkenyl-fused benzotriazole-derived α-amino acids. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 88, pp. 2453-2463. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c02886)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2023) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 40, pp. 223-227. (doi: 10.1039/D3NP90007J)

Koehnke, J. (2023) Caught in the act. Nature Chemical Biology, 19, pp. 7-8. (doi: 10.1038/s41589-022-01180-7)

2022

Tabouillot, V., Kumar, R., Lalaguna, P. L., Hajji, M., Clarke, R., Karimullah, A. S., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A., Gadegaard, N., Hashiyada, S., Kadodwala, M. (2022) Near-field probing of optical superchirality with plasmonic circularly polarized luminescence for enhanced bio-detection. ACS Photonics, 9, pp. 3617-3624. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01073)

McErlain, H., McLean, E. B., Morgan, T. E. F., Burianova, V. K., Tavares, A. A. S., Sutherland, A. (2022) Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of SynVesT-1, A synaptic density positron emission tomography imaging agent. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87, pp. 14443-14451. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c01895)

She, S., Bell, N. L., Zheng, D., Mathieson, J. S., Castro, M. D., Long, D.-L., Koehnke, J., Cronin, L. (2022) Robotic synthesis of peptides containing metal-oxide-based amino acids. Chem, 8, pp. 2734-2748. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.07.007)

Waddell, L., Henry, M., Mostafa, M., Sutherland, A. (2022) One-pot synthesis of diaryl sulfonamides using an iron and copper catalyzed aryl C–H amidation process. Synthesis, 54, pp. 4551-4560. (doi: 10.1055/a-1884-6988)

Archibald, L. J., Brown, E. A., Millard, C. J., Watson, P. J., Robertson, N. S., Wang, S., Schwabe, J. W. R., Jamieson, A. G. (2022) Hydroxamic acid-modified peptide library provides insights into the molecular basis for the substrate selectivity of HDAC corepressor complexes. ACS Chemical Biology, 17, pp. 2572-2582. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00510)

Miljkovic, J. L., Burger, N., Gawel, J. M., Mulvey, J. F., Norman, A. A. I., Nishimura, T., Tsujihata, Y., Logan, A., Sauchanka, O., Caldwell, S. T., Morris, J. L., Prime, T. A., Warrington, S., Prudent, J., Bates, G. R., Aksentijeviü, D., Prag, H. A., James, A. M., Krieg, T., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P. (2022) Rapid and selective generation of H2S within mitochondria protects against cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury. Redox Biology, 55, (doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2022.102429)

Atkinson, B. C., Thomson, A. R. (2022) Structured cyclic peptide mimics by chemical ligation. Peptide Science, 114, (doi: 10.1002/pep2.24266)

Mahindra, A., Jenkins, L., Marsango, S., Huggett, M., Huggett, M., Robinson, L., Gillespie, J., Rajamanickam, M., Morrison, A., McElroy, S., Tikhonova, I. G., Milligan, G., Jamieson, A. G. (2022) Investigating the structure–activity relationship of 1,2,4-triazine G-protein-coupled receptor 84 (GPR84) antagonists. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 65, pp. 11270-11290. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c00804)

Cariello, M., Pant, N., Harkiss, A. H., Tracey, F. M., Cameron, J., Skabara, P. J., Holliman, P. J., Docampo, P., Cooke, G. (2022) Synthesis of SOT-OH and its application as a building block for the synthesis of new dimeric and trimeric Spiro-OMeTAD materials. Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 7, pp. 899-905. (doi: 10.1039/D2ME00038E)

Dodds, A. C., Puddu, S., Sutherland, A. (2022) Thioarylation of anilines using dual catalysis: two-step synthesis of phenothiazines. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 20, pp. 5602-5614. (doi: 10.1039/D2OB01082H)

James, A. M., Norman, A. A. I., Houghton, J. W., Prag, H. A., Logan, A., Antrobus, R., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P. (2022) Native chemical ligation approach to sensitively probe tissue acyl-CoA pools. Cell Chemical Biology, 29, pp. 1232-1244.e5. (doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2022.04.005)

Romiti, F., Decultot, L., Clark, J. S. (2022) Convergent synthesis of the C1-C29 framework of amphidinolide F. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87, pp. 8126-8141. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00850)

Burger, N., James, A. M., Mulvey, J. F., Hoogewijs, K., Ding, S., Fearnley, I. M., Loureiro-López, M., Norman, A. A.I., Arndt, S., Mottahedin, A., Sauchanka, O., Hartley, R. C., Krieg, T., Murphy, M. P. (2022) ND3 Cys39 in complex I is exposed during mitochondrial respiration. Cell Chemical Biology, 29, pp. 636-649.e14. (doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.10.010)

Camargo, L. L., Montezano, A. C., Hussain, M., Wang, Y., Zou, Z., Rios, F. J., Neves, K. B., Alves-Lopes, R., Awan, F. R., Guzik, T. J., Jensen, T., Hartley, R. C., Touyz, R. M. (2022) Central role of c-Src in NOX5- mediated redox signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells in human hypertension. Cardiovascular Research, 118, pp. 1359-1373. (doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvab171)

Sikandar, A., Lopatniuk, M., Luzhetskyy, A., Müller, R., Koehnke, J. (2022) Total in vitro biosynthesis of the thioamitide thioholgamide and investigation of the pathway. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, pp. 5136-5144. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c00402)

Dodds, A. C., Sutherland, A. (2022) Synthesis of phenoxathiins using an iron-catalysed C–H thioarylation. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 20, pp. 1738-1748. (doi: 10.1039/D2OB00022A)

Ryan, D. G., Knatko, E. V., Casey, A. M., Hukelmann, J. L., Dayalan Naidu, S., Brenes, A. J., Ekkunagul, T., Baker, C., Higgins, M., Tronci, L., Nikitopolou, E., Honda, T., Hartley, R. C., O’Neill, L. A.J., Frezza, C., Lamond, A. I., Abramov, A. Y., Arthur, J. S. C., Cantrell, D. A., Murphy, M. P., Dinkova-Kostova, A. T. (2022) Nrf2 activation reprograms macrophage intermediary metabolism and suppresses the type I interferon response. iScience, 25, (doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103827)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2022) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 39, pp. 217-221. (doi: 10.1039/D2NP90004A)

Yelland, T., Garcia, E., Parry, C., Kowalczyk, D., Wojnowska, M., Gohlke, A., Zalar, M., Cameron, K., Goodwin, G., Yu, Q., Zhu, P.-C., Elmaghloob, Y., Pugliese, A., Archibald, L., Jamieson, A., Chen, Y. X., McArthur, D., Bower, J., Ismail, S. (2022) Stabilization of the RAS:PDE6D complex is a novel strategy to inhibit RAS signaling. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 65, pp. 1898-1914. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c01265)

Prag, H. A., Pala, L., Kula-Alwar, D., Mulvey, J. F., Luping, D., Beach, T. E., Booty, L. M., Hall, A. R., Logan, A., Sauchanka, V., Caldwell, S. T., Robb, E. L., James, A. M., Xu, Z., Saeb-Parsy, K., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P., Krieg, T. (2022) Ester prodrugs of malonate with enhanced intracellular delivery protect against cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in vivo. Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, 36, pp. 1-13. (doi: 10.1007/s10557-020-07033-6)

Ojeda Porras, A. C., Aouzal, R., Wilson, C., Prunet, J. (2022) Relay ring-closing metathesis strategies towards the synthesis of the ABC tricycle of Taxol. Tetrahedron, 106-07, (doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2022.132630)

Neckebroeck, A., Kelly, S. M., Smith, B. O., Clark, J. S. (2022) Synthesis of the prototypical cyclopropyl dipeptide mimic and evaluation of its turn-inducing capability. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87, pp. 258-270. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02344)

Decultot, L., Clark, J. S. (2022) Synthetic studies on amphidinolide F: exploration of macrocycle construction by intramolecular Stille coupling. Organic Letters, 24, pp. 7600-7604. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c03045)

2021

Mcerlain, H., Riley, L. M., Sutherland, A. (2021) Palladium-catalyzed C—P bond-forming reactions of aryl nonaflates accelerated by iodide. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, pp. 17036-17049. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02172)

MacAskill, M. G., Wimberley, C., Morgan, T. E. F., Alcaide‑Corral, C. J., Newby, D. E., Lucatelli, C., Sutherland, A., Pimlott, S. L., Tavares, A. A. S. (2021) Modelling [18F]LW223 PET data using simplified imaging protocols for quantification of TSPO expression in the rat heart and brain. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 49, pp. 137-145. (doi: 10.1007/S00259-021-05482-1)

Mahindra, A., Tejeda, G., Rossi, M., Janha, O., Herbert, I., Morris, C., Morgan, D. C., Beattie, W., Montezano, A. C., Hudson, B., Tobin, A. B., Bhella, D., Touyz, R. M., Jamieson, A. G., Baillie, G. S., Blair, C. M. (2021) Peptides derived from the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding motif bind to ACE2 but do not block ACE2-mediated host cell entry or pro-inflammatory cytokine induction. PLoS ONE, 16, (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260283)

Carter, R. N. et al. (2021) The hepatic compensatory response to elevated systemic sulfide promotes diabetes. Cell Reports, 37, (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109958)

Morgan, T. E.F., Riley, L. M., Tavares, A. A.S., Sutherland, A. (2021) Automated Radiosynthesis of cis- and trans-4-[18F]Fluoro-L-proline using [18F]Fluoride. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, pp. 14054-14060. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00755)

Brooks, S., Charlton, G., Letort, A., Prunet, J., Bucher, G. (2021) Calculations on the ruthenium-catalyzed diene and dienyne ring-closing metathesis reactions in the synthesis of taxol derivatives. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, pp. 13056-13070. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c01879)

Franz, L., Kazmaier, U., Truman, A. W., Koehnke, J. (2021) Bottromycins - biosynthesis, synthesis and activity. Natural Product Reports, 38, pp. 1659-1683. (doi: 10.1039/D0NP00097C)

Scott, A. J., Niitsu, A., Kratochvil, H. T., Lang, E. J. M., Sengel, J. T., Dawson, W. M., Mahendran, K. R., Mravic, M., Thomson, A. R., Brady, R. L., Liu, L., Mulholland, A. J., Bayley, H., DeGrado, W. F., Wallace, M. I., Woolfson, D. N. (2021) Constructing ion channels from water-soluble α-helical barrels. Nature Chemistry, 13, pp. 643-650. (doi: 10.1038/s41557-021-00688-0)

Cairns, A. G., McQuaker, S. J., Murphy, M. P., Hartley, R. C. (2021) Insights on targeting small molecules to the mitochondrial matrix and the preparation of MitoB and MitoP as exomarkers of mitochondrial hydrogen peroxide. Humana

Morgan, D. C., Morris, C., Mahindra, A., Blair, C. M., Tejeda, G., Herbert, I., Turnbull, M. L., Lieber, G., Willett, B. J., Logan, N., Smith, B., Tobin, A. B., Bhella, D., Baillie, G. S., Jamieson, A. G. (2021) Stapled ACE2 peptidomimetics designed to target the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein do not prevent virus internalisation. Peptide Science, 113, (doi: 10.1002/pep2.24217)

Rhys, G. G., Dawson, W. M., Beesley, J. L., Martin, F. J.O., Brady, R. L., Thomson, A. R., Woolfson, D. N. (2021) How coiled-coil assemblies accommodate multiple aromatic residues. Biomacromolecules, 22, pp. 2010-2019. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00131)

Caldwell, S. T., O'Byrne, S., Wilson, C., Cvetko, F., Murphy, M. P., McCarron, J. G., Hartley, R. C. (2021) Photoactivated release of membrane impermeant sulfonates inside cells. Chemical Communications, 57, pp. 3917-3920. (doi: 10.1039/D0CC07713E)

Dodds, A. C., Sutherland, A. (2021) Regioselective C-H thioarylation of electron-rich arenes by iron(III) triflimide catalysis. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86, pp. 5922-5932. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00448)

Welch, A., Tavares, A. A. S., Pimlott, S., Sutherland, A. (2021) PET and SPECT in drug development. Wiley

MacAskill, M. G., Stadulyte, A., Williams, L., Morgan, T. E. F., Sloan, N. L., Alcaide-Corral, C. J., Walton, T., Wimberley, C., McKenzie, C.-A., Spath, N., Mungall, W., BouHaidar, R., Dweck, M. R., Gray, G. A., Newby, D. E., Lucatelli, C., Sutherland, A., Pimlott, S. L., Tavares, A. A.S. (2021) Quantification of macrophage-driven inflammation during myocardial infarction with 18F-LW223, a novel TSPO radiotracer with binding independent of the rs6971 human polymorphism. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 62, pp. 536-544. (doi: 10.2967/jnumed.120.243600)

Gaddale Devanna, K. K., Gawel, J. M., Prime, T. A., Cvetko, F., Benincá, C., Caldwell, S. T., Negoda, A., Harrison, A., James, A. M., Pavlov, E. V., Murphy, M. P., Hartley, R. C. (2021) Tetra-arylborate lipophilic anions as targeting groups. Chemical Communications, 57, pp. 3147-3150. (doi: 10.1039/D0CC07924C)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2021) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 38, pp. 287-291. (doi: 10.1039/D1NP90005F)

Axer, A., Jumde, R. P., Adam, S., Faust, A., Schäfers, M., Fobker, M., Koehnke, J., Hirsch, A. K. H., Gilmour, R. (2021) Enhancing glycan stability via site-selective fluorination: modulating substrate orientation by molecular design. Chemical Science, 12, pp. 1286-1294. (doi: 10.1039/D0SC04297H)

Audic, A., Oriez, R., Prunet, J. (2021) Dramatic influence of ester steric hindrance on the diastereoselectivity of a Michael addition towards the synthesis of the ABC tricycle of hexacyclinic acid. Tetrahedron, 79, (doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131843)

Montalbán-López, M. et al. (2021) New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering. Natural Product Reports, 38, pp. 130-239. (doi: 10.1039/D0NP00027B)

Cvetko, F., Caldwell, S. T., Higgins, M., Suzuki, T., Yamamoto, M., Prag, H. A., Hartley, R. C., Dinkova-Kostova, A., Murphy, M. P. (2021) Nrf2 is activated by disruption of mitochondrial thiol homeostasis but not by enhanced mitochondrial superoxide production. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 296, (doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.016551)

Knuhtsen, A., Whiting, R., McWhinnie, F. S., Whitmore, C., Smith, B. O., Green, A. C., Timperley, C. M., Kinnear, K. I., Jamieson, A. G. (2021) μ-conotoxin KIIIA peptidomimetics that block human voltage-gated sodium channels. Peptide Science, 113, (doi: 10.1002/pep2.24203)

Franz, L., Koehnke, J. (2021) Leader peptide exchange to produce hybrid, new-to-nature ribosomal natural products. Chemical Communications, 57, pp. 6372-6375. (doi: 10.1039/D0CC06889F)

McGrory, R., Faggyas, R., Sutherland, A. (2021) One-pot synthesis of N-substituted benzannulated triazoles via stable arene diazonium salts. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 19, pp. 6127-6140. (doi: 10.1039/D1OB00968K)

Ruddell, S., Sugrue, E., Memarzadeh, S., Hellam, L. M., Wilson, S., France, D. (2021) Synthesis, enantiomeric resolution and biological evaluation of HIV capsid inhibition activity for racemic, (S)- and (R)-PF74. Molecules, 26, (doi: 10.3390/molecules26133919)

Tan, S. M., Lindblom, R. S. J., Ziemann, M., Laskowski, A., Granata, C., Snelson, M., Thallas-Bonke, V., El-Osta, A., Baeza-Garza, C. D., Caldwell, S. T., Hartley, R. C., Krieg, T., Cooper, M. E., Murphy, M. P., Coughlan, M. T. (2021) Targeting methylglyoxal in diabetic kidney disease using the mitochondria-targeted compound MitoGamide. Nutrients, 13, (doi: 10.3390/nu13051457)

Hodgkinson, T., Tsimbouri, P. M., Llopis-Hernandez, V., Campsie, P., Scurr, D., Childs, P. G., Phillips, D., Donnelly, S., Wells, J. A., O’Brien, F. J., Salmeron-Sanchez, M., Burgess, K., Alexander, M., Vassalli, M., Oreffo, R. O.C., Reid, S., France, D. J., Dalby, M. (2021) The use of nanovibration to discover specific and potent bioactive metabolites that stimulate osteogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stem cells. Science Advances, 7, (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb7921)

2020

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J. Clark, S., Popadynec, M. (2020) Stereoselective synthesis of the I–L fragment of the Pacific ciguatoxins. Toxins, 12, (doi: 10.3390/toxins12120740)

Sikandar, A., Lopatniuk, M., Luzhetskyy, A., Koehnke, J. (2020) Non-heme monooxygenase ThoJ catalyzes thioholgamide β-hydroxylation. ACS Chemical Biology, 15, pp. 2815-2819. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00637)

Aggarwal, V. K., Armstrong, S. K., Caggiano, L., Chibale, K., Clayden, J., Coldham, I., Greeves, N., Hartley, R. C., Knight, J. G., Kuhnert, N., Mitchell, H. J., Nelson, A., O'Brien, P., Thomas, S. P., Wyatt, P. (2020) Stuart Warren (24 Dec 1938–22 Mar 2020) Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, pp. 7236-7237. (doi: 10.1039/D0OB90121K)

Mahindra, A., Janha, O., Mapesa, K., Sanchez Azqueta, A., Alam, M. M., Amambua-Ngwa, A., Nwakanma, D. C., Tobin, A. B., Jamieson, A. G. (2020) Development of potent PfCLK3 inhibitors based on TCMDC-135051 as a new class of antimalarials. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 63, pp. 9300-9315. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00451)

Pala, L., Senn, H. M., Caldwell, S. T., Prime, T. A., Warrington, S., Bright, T. P., Prag, H. A., Wilson, C., Murphy, M., Hartley, R. C. (2020) Enhancing the mitochondrial uptake of phosphonium cations by carboxylic acid incorporation. Frontiers in Chemistry, 8, (doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00783)

Prag, H. A., Kula-Alwar, D., Pala, L., Caldwell, S. T., Beach, T. E., James, A. M., Saeb-Parsy, K., Krieg, T., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P. (2020) Selective delivery of dicarboxylates to mitochondria by conjugation to a lipophilic cation via a cleavable linker. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 17, pp. 3526-3540. (doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00533)

Chowdhury, A. R., Zielonka, J., Kalyanaraman, B., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P., Avadhani, N. G. (2020) Mitochondria-targeted paraquat and metformin mediate ROS production to induce multiple pathways of retrograde signaling: a dose-dependent phenomenon. Redox Biology, 36, (doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2020.101606)

Beach, T. E., Prag, H. A., Pala, L., Logan, A., Huang, M. M., Gruszczyk, A. V., Martin, J. L., Mahbubani, K., Hamed, M. O., Hosgood, S. A., Nicholson, M. A., James, A. M., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P., Saeb-Parsy, K. (2020) Targeting succinate dehydrogenase with malonate ester prodrugs decreases renal ischemia reperfusion injury. Redox Biology, 36, (doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2020.101640)

Sikandar, A., Franz, L., Adam, S., Santos-Aberturas, J., Horbal, L., Luzhetskyy, A., Truman, A. W., Kalinina, O. V., Koehnke, J. (2020) The bottromycin epimerase BotH defines a group of atypical α/β-hydrolase-fold enzymes. Nature Chemical Biology, 16, pp. 1013-1018. (doi: 10.1038/s41589-020-0569-y)

Minard, A., Morgan, D., Raguseo, F., Di Porzio, A., Liano, D., Jamieson, A. G., Di Antonio, M. (2020) A short peptide that preferentially binds c-MYC G-quadruplex DNA. Chemical Communications, 56, pp. 8940-8943. (doi: 10.1039/D0CC02954H)

Dubost, E., Mcerlain, H., Babin, V., Sutherland, A., Cailly, T. (2020) Recent advances in synthetic methods for radioiodination. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 85, pp. 8300-8310. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00644)

Crecente Garcia, S., Neckebroeck, A., Clark, J. S., Smith, B. O., Thomson, A. R. (2020) β-turn mimics by chemical ligation. Organic Letters, 22, pp. 4424-4428. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01427)

Sood, D. E., Champion, S., Dawson, D. M., Chabbra, S., Bode, B. E., Sutherland, A., Watson, A. J. B. (2020) Deoxyfluorination with CuF2: enabled by using a Lewis base activating group. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 59, pp. 8460-8463. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202001015)

Henry, M. C., Abbinante, V. M., Sutherland, A. (2020) Iron-catalyzed regioselective synthesis of 2-arylbenzoxazoles and 2-arylbenzothiazoles via alternative reaction pathways. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, pp. 2819-2826. (doi: 10.1002/ejoc.202000014)

Popadynec, M., Clark, J. S., Gibbard, H. (2020) Bidirectional synthesis of the IJK fragment of ciguatoxin CTX3C by sequential double ring-closing metathesis and Tsuji-Trost allylation. Organic Letters, 22, pp. 3734-3738. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01238)

Magnussen, H. M., Ahmed, S. F., Sibbet, G. J., Hristova, V. A., Nomura, K., Hock, A. K., Archibald, L. J., Jamieson, A. G., Fushman, D., Vousden, K. H., Weissman, A. M., Huang, D. T. (2020) Structural basis for DNA damage-induced phosphoregulation of MDM2 RING domain. Nature Communications, 11, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15783-y)

Garzón-Posse, F., Prunet, J., Gamba-Sánchez, D. (2020) An alternative approach to the synthesis of the three fragments of Anachelin H. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, pp. 2702-2715. (doi: 10.1039/D0OB00315H)

Henry, M. C., Sutherland, A. (2020) Synthesis of benzo[b]furans by intramolecular C–O bond formation using iron and copper catalysis. Organic Letters, 22, pp. 2766-2770. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00754)

Keller, L., Canuto, K. M., Liu, C., Suzuki, B. M., Almaliti, J., Sikandar, A., Naman, C. B., Glukhov, E., Luo, D., Duggan, B. M., Luesch, H., Koehnke, J., O’Donoghue, A. J., Gerwick, W. H. (2020) Tutuilamides A–C: vinyl-chloride-containing cyclodepsipeptides from marine cyanobacteria with potent elastase inhibitory properties. ACS Chemical Biology, 15, pp. 751-757. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00992)

Wittmann, S., Tiniakos, A. F., Prunet, J. (2020) Diastereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted olefins using a silicon-tether ring-closing metathesis strategy. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, pp. 2297-2306. (doi: 10.1039/C9OB02563D)

Altuna-Ruiz de Eguino, A., Cormack, P. A.G., Prunet, J. (2020) Olefin cross metathesis as a versatile method for the facile functionalization of porous polymers. Organic Letters, 22, pp. 2481-2485. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00726)

Burger, N., Logan, A., Prime, T. A., Mottahedin, A., Caldwell, S. T., Krieg, T., Hartley, R. C., James, A. M., Murphy, M. P. (2020) A sensitive mass spectrometric assay for mitochondrial CoQ pool redox state in vivo. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 147, pp. 37-47. (doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.11.028)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2020) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 37, pp. 145-149. (doi: 10.1039/D0NP90004D)

Bell, J. D., Harkiss, A. H., Nobis, D., Malcolm, E., Knuhtsen, A., Wellaway, C. R., Jamieson, A. G., Magennis, S. W., Sutherland, A. (2020) Conformationally rigid pyrazoloquinazoline α-amino acids: one- and two-photon induced fluorescence. Chemical Communications, 56, pp. 1887-1890. (doi: 10.1039/C9CC09064A)

Song, Y., Dagil, L., Fairall, L., Robertson, N., Wu, M., Ragan, T.J., Savva, C. G., Saleh, A., Morone, N., Kunze, M. B.A., Jamieson, A. G., Cole, P. A., Hansen, D. F., Schwabe, J. W.R. (2020) Mechanism of crosstalk between the LSD1 demethylase and HDAC1 deacetylase in the CoREST complex. Cell Reports, 30, pp. 2699-2711.e8. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.091)

Campbell, A., Mat Som, I., Wilson, C., Clark, J. S. (2020) Total syntheses of 11-acetoxy-4-deoxyasbestinin D, 4-deoxyasbestinin C, asbestinin-10, -20, -21 and -23. Chemistry: A European Journal, 26, pp. 1155-1160. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201904998)

Phillips, D., Brodie, G., Memarzadeh, S., Tang, G. L., France, D. J. (2020) MIDA boronate allylation – synthesis of ibuprofen. RSC Advances, 10, pp. 30624-30630. (doi: 10.1039/D0RA03338C)

2019

Tate, M., Higgins, G. C., De Blasio, M. J., Lindblom, R., Prakoso, D., Deo, M., Kiriazis, H., Park, M., Barza-Garza, C. D., Caldwell, S. T., Hartley, R. C., Krieg, T., Murphy, M. P., Coughlan, M. T., Ritchie, R. H. (2019) The mitochondria-targeted methylglyoxal sequestering compound, MitoGamide, is cardioprotective in the diabetic heart. Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, 33, pp. 669-674. (doi: 10.1007/s10557-019-06914-9)

Martin, J., Costa, A., Gruszczyk, A., Beach, T., Allen, F., Prag, H., Hinchy, E., Mahbubani, K., Hamed, M., James, A., Krieg, T., Robinson, A., Pala, L., Hartley, R., Frezza, C., Saeb-Parsy, K., Logan, A., Caldwell, S., Huang, M., Tronci, L., Nikitopoulou, E., Murphy, M. (2019) Succinate accumulation drives ischaemia-reperfusion injury during organ transplantation. Nature Metabolism, 1, pp. 966-974. (doi: 10.1038/s42255-019-0115-y)

Elustondo, F., Chintalapudi, V., Clark, J. S. (2019) A short sequence for the iterative synthesis of fused polyethers. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 102, (doi: 10.1002/hlca.201900161)

Faggyas, R. J., Sloan, N. L., Buijs, N., Sutherland, A. (2019) Synthesis of structurally diverse benzotriazoles via rapid diazotization and intramolecular cyclization of 1,2-aryldiamines. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019, pp. 5344-5353. (doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201900463)

Alam, M. M. et al. (2019) Validation of the protein kinase PfCLK3 as a multistage cross-species malarial drug target. Science, 365, (doi: 10.1126/science.aau1682)

Bell, J. D., Morgan, T. E.F., Buijs, N., Harkiss, A. H., Wellaway, C. R., Sutherland, A. (2019) Synthesis and photophysical properties of benzotriazole-derived unnatural α -amino acids. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, pp. 10436-10448. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01685)

Aimon, A., Farrugia, L. J., Clark, J. S. (2019) Synthesis of the core framework of the cornexistins by intramolecular Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi coupling. Molecules, 24, (doi: 10.3390/molecules24142654)

Qin, S., Cao, Y., Luo, Y., Jiang, S., Clark, J. S., Wang, X., Yang, G. (2019) Multi‐gram scale synthesis of chiral 3‐methyl‐2,5‐trans‐tetrahydrofurans. Helvetica Chimica Acta, 102, (doi: 10.1002/hlca.201900131)

Sikandar, A., Franz, L., Melse, O., Antes, I., Koehnke, J. (2019) Thiazoline-specific amidohydrolase PurAH is the gatekeeper of bottromycin biosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, pp. 9748-9752. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b12231)

Rhys, G. G., Wood, C. W., Beesley, J. L., Zaccai, N. R., Burton, A. J., Brady, R. L., Thomson, A. R., Woolfson, D. N. (2019) Navigating the structural landscape of de novo α-helical bundles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, pp. 8787-8797. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b13354)

MacAskill, M. G., Walton, T., Williams, L., Morgan, T. E.F., Alcaide-Corral, C. J., Dweck, M. R., Gray, G. A., Newby, D. E., Lucatelli, C., Sutherland, A., Pimlott, S. L., Tavares, A. A.S. (2019) Kinetic modelling and quantification bias in small animal PET studies with [18F]AB5186, a novel 18 kDa translocator protein radiotracer. PLoS ONE, 14, (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217515)

Lim, P. J., Duarte, T., Arezes, J., Garcia-Santos, D., Hamdi, A., Pasricha, S.-R., Armitage, A., Mehta, H., Wideman, S., Santos, A., Santos-Gonçalves, A., Morovat, A., Hughes, J., Soilleux, E., Wang, C.-Y., Bayer, A., Klenerman, P., Willberg, C., Hartley, R., Murphy, M., Babitt, J., Ponka, P., Porto, G., Drakesmith, H. (2019) Nrf2 controls iron homoeostasis in haemochromatosis and thalassaemia via Bmp6 and hepcidin. Nature Metabolism, 1, pp. 519-531. (doi: 10.1038/s42255-019-0063-6)

Henry, M. C., McGrory, R., Faggyas, R. J., Mostafa, M. A.B., Sutherland, A. (2019) One-pot ortho-amination of aryl C-H bonds using consecutive iron and copper catalysis: late-stage structural diversification of 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2-one. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 17, pp. 4629-4639. (doi: 10.1039/C9OB00712A)

Mahindra, A., Millard, C. J., Black, I., Archibald, L. J., Schwabe, J. W.R., Jamieson, A. G. (2019) Synthesis of HDAC substrate peptidomimetic inhibitors (SPIs) using Fmoc amino acids incorporating zinc-binding groups. Organic Letters, 21, pp. 3178-3182. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b00885)

Sanogo, Y., Othman, R. B., Dhambri, S., Selkti, M., Jeuken, A., Prunet, J., Férézou, J.-P., Ardisson, J., Lannou, M.-I., Sorin, G. (2019) Ti(II) and Rh(I) complexes as reagents toward a thapsigargin core. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, pp. 5821-5830. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b03249)

Molloy, J. J., O'Rourke, K., Frias, C. P., Sloan, N., West, M. J., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A., Watson, A. J.B. (2019) Mechanism of Cu-catalyzed aryl boronic acid halodeboronation using electrophilic halogen: development of a base-catalyzed iododeboronation for radiolabeling applications. Organic Letters, 21, pp. 2488-2492. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b00942)

Clark, G. C., Casewell, N. R., Elliott, C. T., Harvey, A. L., Jamieson, A. G., Strong, P. N., Turner, A. D. (2019) Friends or foes? Emerging impacts of biological toxins. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 44, pp. 365-379. (doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2018.12.004)

Antonucci, S., Mulvey, J. F., Burger, N., Di Sante, M., Hall, A. R., Hinchy, E. C., Caldwell, S., Gruszczyk, A. V., Deshwal, S., Hartley, R. C., Kaludercic, N., Murphy, M. P., Di Lisa, F., Krieg, T. (2019) Selective mitochondrial superoxide generation in vivo is cardioprotective through hormesis. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 134, pp. 678-687. (doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.01.034)

Booty, L. M., Gawel, J. M., Cvetko, F., Caldwell, S. T., Hall, A. R., Mulvey, J. F., James, A. M., Hinchy, E. C., Prime, T. A., Arndt, S., Beninca, C., Bright, T. P., Clatworthy, M. R., Ferdinand, J. R., Prag, H. A., Logan, A., Prudent, J., Krieg, T., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P. (2019) Selective disruption of mitochondrial thiol redox state in cells and in vivo. Cell Chemical Biology, 26, pp. 449-461.e8. (doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.12.002)

McDougall, L., Jamieson, A. G. (2019) Stapled peptides as potential therapeutics. Wiley

Harkiss, A. H., Bell, J. D., Knuhtsen, A., Jamieson, A. G., Sutherland, A. (2019) Synthesis and fluorescent properties of β-pyridyl α-amino acids. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, pp. 2879-2890. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00036)

Knuhtsen, A., Whitmore, C., McWhinnie, F. S., McDougall, L., Whiting, R., Smith, B. O., Timperley, C. M., Green, A. C., Kinnear, K. I., Jamieson, A. G. (2019) α-conotoxin GI triazole-peptidomimetics: potent and stable blockers of a human acetylcholine receptor. Chemical Science, 10, pp. 1671-1676. (doi: 10.1039/C8SC04198A)

Wertz, J. H., Quye, A., France, D. (2019) Turkey red prints: Identification of lead chromate, Prussian blue and logwood on Turkey red calico. Conservar Património: Studies in Historical Textiles, 31, pp. 31-39. (doi: 10.14568/cp2018019)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2019) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 36, pp. 258-262. (doi: 10.1039/C9NP90001B)

Henry, M. C., Senn, H. M., Sutherland, A. (2019) Synthesis of functionalized indolines and dihydrobenzofurans by iron and copper catalyzed aryl C-N and C-O bond formation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, pp. 346-364. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02888)

Pinho, B. R., Reis, S. D., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P., Oliveira, J. M.A. (2019) Mitochondrial superoxide generation induces a parkinsonian phenotype in zebrafish and huntingtin aggregation in human cells. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 130, pp. 318-327. (doi: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.10.446)

Lau, G. Y., Barts, N., Hartley, R. C., Tobler, M., Richards, J. G., Murphy, M. P., Arndt, S. (2019) Detection of changes in mitochondrial hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in vivo in the fish model Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae) Biology Open, 8, (doi: 10.1242/bio.041467)

Sutherland, A. (2019) Radiohalogenation of organic compounds: practical considerations and challenges for molecular imaging. Synthesis, 51, pp. 4368-4373. (doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1611885)

Sikandar, A., Koehnke, J. (2019) The role of protein–protein interactions in the biosynthesis of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides. Natural Product Reports, 36, pp. 1576-1588. (doi: 10.1039/C8NP00064F)

2018

Becerra-Figueroa, L., Tiniakos, A. F., Prunet, J., Gamba-Sánchez, D. A. (2018) Water-compatible synthesis of 2-trifluoromethyl-1,3-dioxanes. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 48, pp. 6929-6932. (doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201801367)

Tiniakos, A. F., Wittmann, S., Audic, A., Prunet, J. (2018) Novel synthesis of trisubstituted olefins for the preparation of the C16–C30 fragment of dolabelide C. Organic Letters, 21, pp. 589-592. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b03552)

Sikandar, A., Cirnski, K., Testolin, G., Volz, C., Brönstrup, M., Kalinina, O. V., Müller, R., Koehnke, J. (2018) Adaptation of a bacterial multidrug resistance system revealed by the structure and function of AlbA. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, pp. 16641-16649. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b08895)

Murphy, M. P., Hartley, R. C. (2018) Mitochondria as a therapeutic target for common pathologies. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 17, pp. 865-886. (doi: 10.1038/nrd.2018.174)

Smith, C. D., Phillips, D., Tirla, A., France, D. J. (2018) Catalytic isohypsic-redox sequences for the rapid generation of Csp3-containing heterocycles. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24, pp. 17201-17204. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201804131)

Wertz, J. H., Tang, P. L., Quye, A., France, D. (2018) Characterisation of oil and aluminium complex on replica and historical 19th c. Turkey red textiles by non-destructive diffuse reflectance FTIR spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 204, pp. 267-275. (doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2018.05.109)

Faggyas, R. J., Grace, M., Williams, L., Sutherland, A. (2018) Multibond forming tandem reactions of anilines via stable aryl diazonium salts: one-pot synthesis of 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2-ones. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83, pp. 12595-12608. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01910)

Rhys, G. G., Wood, C. W., Lang, E. J.M., Mulholland, A. J., Brady, R. L., Thomson, A. R., Woolfson, D. N. (2018) Maintaining and breaking symmetry in homomeric coiled-coil assemblies. Nature Communications, 9, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06391-y)

Kelly, R.D.W., Chandru, A., Watson, P.J., Song, Y., Blades, M., Robertson, N.S., Jamieson, A.G., Schwabe, J.W.R., Cowley, S.M. (2018) Histone deacetylase (HDAC) 1 and 2 complexes regulate both histone acetylation and crotonylation in vivo. Scientific Reports, 8, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32927-9)

Heal, J. W., Bartlett, G. J., Wood, C. W., Thomson, A. R., Woolfson, D. N. (2018) Applying graph theory to protein structures: an atlas of coiled coils. Bioinformatics, 34, pp. 3316-3323. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty347)

Wertz, J. H., France, D. J., Quye, A. (2018) Spectroscopic analysis of Turkey red oil samples as a basis for understanding historical dyed textiles. Coloration Technology, 134, pp. 319-325. (doi: 10.1111/cote.12343)

Gamba-Sanchez, D., Prunet, J. (2018) Synthesis of 1,3-diols by O-nucleophile additions to activated alkenes. Synthesis, 50, pp. 3997-4007. (doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1610248)

Alkattan, M., Prunet, J., Shaver, M. (2018) Functionalizable stereocontrolled cyclopolyethers by ring-closing metathesis as natural polymer mimics. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 57, pp. 12835-12839. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201805113)

Bell, J. D., Harkiss, A. H., Wellaway, C. R., Sutherland, A. (2018) Stereoselective synthesis of 2,6-trans-4-oxopiperidines using an acid-mediated 6-endo-trig cyclisation. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, pp. 6410-6422. (doi: 10.1039/C8OB01363B)

Kany, A. M., Sikandar, A., Yahiaoui, S., Haupenthal, J., Walter, I., Empting, M., Köhnke, J., Hartmann, R. W. (2018) Tackling pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence by a hydroxamic acid-absed LasB inhibitor. ACS Chemical Biology, 13, pp. 2449-2455. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00257)

Salin, K., Villasevil, E. M., Anderson, G. J., Auer, S. K., Selman, C., Hartley, R. C., Mullen, W., Chinopoulos, C., Metcalfe, N. B. (2018) Decreased mitochondrial metabolic requirements in fasting animals carry an oxidative cost. Functional Ecology, 32, pp. 2149-2157. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13125)

Lommel, M., Strompen, J., Hellewell, A. L., Balasubramanian, G. P., Christofidou, E. D., Thomson, A. R., Boyle, A. L., Woolfson, D. N., Puglisi, K., Hartl, M., Holstein, T. W., Adams, J. C., Özbek, S. (2018) Hydra mesoglea proteome identifies thrombospondin as a conserved component active in head organizer restriction. Scientific Reports, 8, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30035-2)

Phillips, D., Hewitt, J. F.M., France, D. (2018) Synthesis of 3,3-disubstituted heterocycles by Pd-catalyzed arylallylation of unactivated alkenes. ACS Omega, 3, pp. 8451-8459. (doi: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01021)

O'Rourke, K., Johnstone, E. S., Becker, H. M., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A. (2018) Exploring the functionalisation of the thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidinedione core: late stage access to highly substituted 5-carboxamide-6-aryl scaffolds. Tetrahedron, 74, pp. 4086-4094. (doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.06.019)

De Lucca Camargo, L., Harvey, A. P., Rios, F. J., Tsiropoulou, S., Silva, R. D. N. d. O., Cao, Z., Graham, D., McMaster, C., Burchmore, R. J., Hartley, R. C., Bulleid, N., Montezano, A. C., Touyz, R. M. (2018) Vascular Nox (NADPH oxidase) compartmentalization, protein hyperoxidation, and endoplasmic reticulum stress response in hypertension. Hypertension, 72, pp. 235-246. (doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.10824)

Guthrie, S., Jensen, T., Hartley, R. C., Ramaesh, K., Lockington, D. (2018) Assessing the accuracy of intracameral phenylephrine preparation in cataract surgery. Eye, 32, pp. 1615-1620. (doi: 10.1038/s41433-018-0143-y)

Klaus, V., Wittmann, S., Senn, H. M., Clark, J. S. (2018) Synthesis of fused tricyclic systems by thermal cope rearrangement of furan-substituted vinyl cyclopropanes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, pp. 3970-3982. (doi: 10.1039/C8OB00924D)

Gibson, E. K., Callison, J., Winfield, J. M., Sutherland, A., Carr, R. H., Eaglesham, A., Parker, S. F., Lennon, D. (2018) Spectroscopic characterization of model compounds, reactants, and byproducts connected with an isocyanate production chain. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 57, pp. 7355-7362. (doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b00853)

Zmuda, F., Blair, A., Liuzzi, M. C., Malviya, G., Chalmers, A. J., Lewis, D., Sutherland, A., Pimlott, S. L. (2018) An 18F-labeled poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase positron emission tomography imaging agent. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 61, pp. 4103-4114. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00138)

Fazakerley, D. J., Minard, A. Y., Krycer, J. R., Thomas, K. C., Stöckli, J., Harney, D. J., Burchfield, J. G., Maghzal, G. J., Caldwell, S. T., Hartley, R. C., Stocker, R., Murphy, M. P., James, D. E. (2018) Mitochondrial oxidative stress causes insulin resistance without disrupting oxidative phosphorylation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293, pp. 7315-7328. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.001254)

Jouanneau, M., Bonepally, K. R., Jeuken, A., Tap, A., Guillot, R., Ardisson, J., Férézou, J.-P., Prunet, J. (2018) Diastereoselective synthesis of an advanced intermediate of thapsigargin and other 6,12-guaianolides using a RCEYM strategy. Organic Letters, 20, pp. 2176-2180. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b00456)

Skardon-Duncan, J., Sparenberg, M., Bayle, A., Alexander, S., Clark, J. S. (2018) Stereoselective synthesis of medium-sized cyclic ethers by sequential ring-closing metathesis and Tsuji–Trost allylation. Organic Letters, 20, pp. 2782-2786. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b01082)

Morrison, S. D., Liskamp, R. M.J., Prunet, J. (2018) Tailoring polyethers for efficient post-polymerization functionalization by cross metathesis. Organic Letters, 20, pp. 2253-2256. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b00595)

Mills, E. L. et al. (2018) Itaconate is an anti-inflammatory metabolite that activates Nrf2 via alkylation of KEAP1. Nature, 5556, pp. 113-117. (doi: 10.1038/nature25986)

Girt, G. C., Mahindra, A., Al Jabri, Z. J.H., De Ste Croix, M., Oggioni, M. R., Jamieson, A. G. (2018) Lipopeptidomimetics derived from teixobactin have potent antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus. Chemical Communications, 54, pp. 2767-2770. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC06093A)

Becerra-Figueroa, L., Movilla, S., Prunet, J., Miscione, G. P., Gamba-Sánchez, D. (2018) An intramolecular oxa-Michael reaction on α,β-unsaturated α-amino-δ-hydroxycarboxylic acid esters. Synthesis of functionalized 1,3-dioxanes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, pp. 1277-1286. (doi: 10.1039/c7ob03066e)

McDougall, L., Draper, E. R., Beadle, J. D., Shipman, M., Raubo, P., Jamieson, A. G., Adams, D. (2018) Enzymatically-stable oxetane-based dipeptide hydrogels. Chemical Communications, 54, pp. 1793-1796. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC09701H)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2018) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 35, pp. 132-136. (doi: 10.1039/c7np90051a)

Cao, Z., Mitchell, L., Hsia, O., Scarpa, M., Caldwell, S. T., Alfred, A. D., Gennaris, A., Collet, J.-F., Hartley, R. C., Bulleid, N. J. (2018) Methionine sulfoxide reductase B3 requires resolving cysteine residues for full activity and can act as a stereospecific methionine oxidase. Biochemical Journal, 475, pp. 827-838. (doi: 10.1042/BCJ20170929)

Webster, S., O'Rourke, K. M., Fletcher, C., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A., Lee, A.-L. (2018) Rapid iododeboronation with and without gold catalysis: application to radiolabelling of arenes. Chemistry: A European Journal, 24, pp. 937-943. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201704534)

Harkiss, A. H., Sutherland, A. (2018) Access to 2,6-disubstituted 4-oxopiperidines using a 6-endo-trig cyclization: stereoselective synthesis of spruce alkaloid and (+)-241D. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83, pp. 535-542. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b02799)

2017

Franz, L., Adam, S., Santos-Aberturas, J., Truman, A. W., Koehnke, J. (2017) Macroamidine formation in bottromycins is catalyzed by a divergent YcaO enzyme. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, pp. 18158-18161. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b09898)

Kjaerulff, L., Sikandar, A., Zaburannyi, N., Adam, S., Herrmann, J., Koehnke, J., Müller, R. (2017) Thioholgamides: thioamide-containing cytotoxic RiPP natural products. ACS Chemical Biology, 12, pp. 2837-2841. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00676)

Fu, C., Sikandar, A., Donner, J., Zaburannyi, N., Herrmann, J., Reck, M., Wagner-Döbler, I., Koehnke, J., Müller, R. (2017) The natural product carolacton inhibits folate-dependent C1 metabolism by targeting FolD/MTHFD. Nature Communications, 8, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01671-5)

Faggyas, R. J., Calder, E. D.D., Wilson, C., Sutherland, A. (2017) One-pot asymmetric synthesis of alkylidene 1-alkylindan-1-ols using Brønsted acid and palladium catalysis. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 82, pp. 11585-11593. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b02287)

Sloan, N. L., Luthra, S. K., McRobbie, G., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A. (2017) One-pot radioiodination of aryl amines via stable diazonium salts: preparation of 125I-imaging agents. Chemical Communications, 53, pp. 11008-11011. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC06211G)

Wood, C. W., Heal, J. W., Thomson, A. R., Bartlett, G. J., Ibarra, A. A., Brady, R. L., Sessions, R. B., Woolfson, D. N. (2017) ISAMBARD: an open-source computational environment for biomolecular analysis, modelling and design. Bioinformatics, 33, pp. 3043-3050. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx352)

Shchepinova, M. M., Cairns, A. G., Prime, T. A., Logan, A., James, A. M., Hall, A. R., Vidoni, S., Arndt, S., Caldwell, S. T., Prag, H. A., Pell, V. A., Krieg, T., Mulvey, J. F., Yadav, P., Cobley, J. N., Bright, T. P., Senn, H. M., Anderson, R. F., Murphy, M. P., Hartley, R. (2017) MitoNeoD: a mitochondria-targeted superoxide probe. Cell Chemical Biology, 24, pp. 1285-1298.e12. (doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.08.003)

Henry, M. C., Sutherland, A., Mostafa, M. A.B. (2017) Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed, directed Aryl C-H/N-H cross coupling reactions. Synthesis, 49, pp. 4586-4598. (doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1588536)

Pawellek, A., Ryder, U., Tammsalu, T., King, L. J., Kreinin, H., Ly, T., Hay, R. T., Hartley, R., Lamond, A. I. (2017) Characterisation of the biflavonoid hinokiflavone as a pre-mRNA splicing modulator that inhibits SENP. eLife, 6, (doi: 10.7554/eLife.27402)

Niitsu, A., Heal, J. W., Fauland, K., Thomson, A. R., Woolfson, D. N., Thomson, A. (2017) Membrane-spanning α-helical barrels as tractable protein-design targets. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372, (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0213)

Mostafa, M. A.B., Bowley, R. M., Racys, D. T., Henry, M. C., Sutherland, A. (2017) Iron(III)-catalyzed chlorination of activated arenes. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 82, pp. 7529-7537. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b01225)

Mcaulay, K., Clark, J. S. (2017) Total synthesis of 7-epi-pukalide and 7-acetylsinumaximol B. Chemistry: A European Journal, 23, pp. 9761-9765. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201702591)

Xu, C., Wittmann, S., Gemander, M., Ruohonen, V., Clark, J. S. (2017) Trialkylphosphine-mediated synthesis of 2-Acyl furans from ynenones. Organic Letters, 19, pp. 3556-3559. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01533)

Klaus, V., Clark, J. S. (2017) Thioether-catalysed tandem synthesis of furans and cyclic ethers or lactones. Synlett, 28, pp. 1358-1362. (doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1588758)

Small, L. S.R., Bruning, M., Thomson, A. R., Boyle, A. L., Davies, R. B., Curmi, P. M.G., Forde, N. R., Linke, H., Woolfson, D. N., Bromley, E. H.C. (2017) Construction of a chassis for a tripartite protein-based molecular motor. ACS Synthetic Biology, 6, pp. 1096-1102. (doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00037)

Beadle, J. D., Knuhtsen, A., Hoose, A., Raubo, P., Jamieson, A. G., Shipman, M. (2017) Solid-phase synthesis of oxetane modified peptides. Organic Letters, 19, pp. 3303-3306. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01466)

Sinclair, F., Alkattan, M., Prunet, J., Shaver, M. P. (2017) Olefin cross metathesis and ring closing metathesis in polymer chemistry. Polymer Chemistry, 8, pp. 3385-3398. (doi: 10.1039/C7PY00340D)

Viehrig, K., Surup, F., Volz, C., Herrmann, J., Abou Fayad, A., Adam, S., Köhnke, J., Trauner, D., Müller, R. (2017) Structure and biosynthesis of crocagins: polycyclic posttranslationally modified ribosomal peptides from chondromyces crocatus. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56, pp. 7407-7410. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201612640)

Pacifico, S., Kerckhoffs, A., Fallow, A. J., Foreman, R. E., Guerrini, R., McDonald, J., Lambert, D. G., Jamieson, A. G. (2017) Urotensin-II peptidomimetic incorporating a non-reducible 1,5-triazole disulfide bond reveals a pseudo-irreversible covalent binding mechanism to the urotensin G-protein coupled receptor. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15, pp. 4704-4710. (doi: 10.1039/C7OB00959C)

Reichenbach, J., Ruddell, S. A., González-Jiménez, M., Lemes, J., Turton, D. A., France, D. J., Wynne, K. (2017) Phonon-like hydrogen-bond modes in protic ionic liquids. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, pp. 7160-7163. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b03036)

MacAskill, M., Zmuda, F., Lucatelli, C., Dweck, M., Gray, G., Newby, D., Sutherland, A., Pimlott, S., Tavares, A. (2017) Binding affinity profiles of isoquinoline carboxamide and phenoxyphenyl acetamide-based TSPO PET ligands in human brain and heart. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 58, pp. 478-478.

Mahendran, K. R., Niitsu, A., Kong, L., Thomson, A. R., Sessions, R. B., Woolfson, D. N., Bayley, H. (2017) A monodisperse transmembrane α-helical peptide barrel. Nature Chemistry, 9, pp. 411-419. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2647)

Arndt, S., Baeza-Garza, C. D., Logan, A., Rosa, T., Wedmann, R., Prime, T. A., Martin, J. L., Saeb-Parsy, K., Krieg, T., Filipovic, M. R., Hartley, R. C., Murphy, M. P. (2017) Assessment of H2S in vivo using the newly developed mitochondria-targeted mass spectrometry probe MitoA. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292, pp. 7761-7773. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.784678)

Mostafa, M., McMillan, A. E., Sutherland, A. (2017) Structural diversification of the aminobicyclo[4.3.0]nonane skeleton using alkynylsilyl-derived allylic trichloroacetimidates. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15, pp. 3035-3045. (doi: 10.1039/C7OB00456G)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2017) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 34, pp. 130-134. (doi: 10.1039/c6np90051h)

Salin, K., Auer, S. K., Villasevil, E. M., Anderson, G. J., Cairns, A. G., Mullen, W., Hartley, R. C., Metcalfe, N. B. (2017) Using the MitoB method to assess levels of reactive oxygen species in ecological studies of oxidative stress. Scientific Reports, 7, (doi: 10.1038/srep41228)

Becerra-Figueroa, L., Brun, E., Mathieson, M., Farrugia, L. J., Wilson, C., Prunet, J., Gamba-Sánchez, D. (2017) Diastereoselective synthesis of trifluoromethylated 1,3-dioxanes by intramolecular oxa-Michael reaction. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15, pp. 301-305. (doi: 10.1039/C6OB02333A)

Adler, P., Fadel, A., Prunet, J., Rabasso, N. (2017) From acyclic to cyclic α-amino vinylphosphonates by using ring-closing metathesis. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15, pp. 387-395. (doi: 10.1039/c6ob02548j)

Phillips, D., France, D. J. (2017) Palladium-catalysed heterocyclisation: a carbon-centred approach. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 6, pp. 27-40. (doi: 10.1002/ajoc.201600410)

Wertz, J. H., Quye, A., France, D., Tang, P. L., Richmond, L. (2017) Authenticating Turkey Red Textiles through Material Investigations by FTIR and UHPLC.

(2017) Cyclic Peptides: From Bioorganic Synthesis to Applications. (doi: 10.1039/9781788010153)

Sloan, N. L., Luthra, S. K., McRobbie, G., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A. (2017) Late stage iodination of biologically active agents using a one-pot process from aryl amines. RSC Advances, 7, pp. 54881-54891. (doi: 10.1039/C7RA11860K)

(2017) Synthesis of Heterocycles by Metathesis Reactions. 47, (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39941-6)

Wertz, J. H., Quye, A., France, D. (2017) Taking historical chemistry to the bench: A new perspective for modern chemists through the re-creation and analysis of 19th-century Scottish Turkey red dyed textiles. Mitteilungen: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, 25, pp. 302-328.

2016

Mostafa, M. A.B., Calder, E. D.D., Sutherland, A., Racys, D. T. (2016) Intermolecular Aryl C-H amination using sequential iron and copper catalysis. Chemistry: A European Journal, 23, pp. 1044-1047. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201605671)

Buskiewicz, I. A., Montgomery, T., Yasewicz, E. C., Huber, S. A., Murphy, M. P., Hartley, R. C., Kelly, R., Crow, M. K., Perl, A., Budd, R. C., Koenig, A. (2016) Reactive oxygen species induce virus-independent MAVS-oligomerization in systemic lupus erythematosus. Science Signaling, 9, (doi: 10.1126/scisignal.aaf1933)

Sharif, S. A.I., Calder, E. D.D., Harkiss, A., Maduro, M., Sutherland, A. (2016) Synthesis of allylic amide functionalized 2H-chromenes and coumarins using a one-pot overman rearrangement and gold(I)-catalyzed hydroarylation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, pp. 9810-9819. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b01881)

Harkiss, A., Sutherland, A. (2016) Recent advances in the synthesis and application of fluorescent α-amino acids. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14, pp. 8911-8921. (doi: 10.1039/C6OB01715K)

Wertz, J.H., Quye, A., France, D. (2016) Natural or Synthetic? The Identification of Anthraquinone Dyes on Historical Turkey Red by UHPLC-PDA Analysis.

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2016) Correction: Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 33, pp. 1239. (doi: 10.1039/c6np90040b)

Burton, A. J., Thomson, A. R., Dawson, W. M., Brady, R. L., Woolfson, D. N. (2016) Installing hydrolytic activity into a completely de novo protein framework. Nature Chemistry, 8, pp. 837-844. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2555)

Sharif, S. A.I., Calder, E. D.D., Delolo, F. G., Sutherland, A. (2016) Synthesis of 5-Amino-2,5-dihydro-1H-benzo[b]azepines using a one-pot multibond forming process. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, pp. 6697-6706. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b01357)

Fournier, L., Robert, C., Pourchet, S., Gonzalez, A., Williams, L., Prunet, J., Thomas, C. M. (2016) Facile and efficient chemical functionalization of aliphatic polyesters by cross metathesis. Polymer Chemistry, 7, pp. 3700-3704. (doi: 10.1039/C6PY00664G)

Ma, C., Letort, A., Aouzal, R., Wilkes, A., Maiti, G., Farrugia, L. J., Ricard, L., Prunet, J. (2016) Cascade metathesis reactions for the synthesis of taxane and isotaxane derivatives. Chemistry: A European Journal, 22, pp. 6891-6899. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201600592)

Watson, P. J., Millard, C. J., Riley, A. M., Robertson, N. S., Wright, L. C., Godage, H. Y., Cowley, S. M., Jamieson, A., Potter, B. V.L., Schwabe, J. W.R. (2016) Insights into the activation mechanism of class I HDAC complexes by inositol phosphates. Nature Communications, 7, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms11262)

Burton, M. J., Kapetanaki, S. M., Chernova, T., Jamieson, A. G., Dorlet, P., Santolini, J., Moody, P. C.E., Mitcheson, J. S., Davies, N. W., Schmid, R., Raven, E. L., Storey, N. M. (2016) A heme-binding domain controls regulation of ATP-dependent potassium channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, pp. 3785-3790. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1600211113)

Mostafa, M. A.B., Grafton, M. W., Wilson, C., Sutherland, A. (2016) A one-pot, three-step process for the diastereoselective synthesis of aminobicyclo[4.3.0]nonanes using consecutive palladium(II)- and ruthenium(II)-catalysis. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14, pp. 3284-3297. (doi: 10.1039/C6OB00165C)

Cant, A. A., Racys, D. T., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A. (2016) New reactions for the synthesis of aryl iodides and the generation of single-photon emission computed tomography imaging agents. (doi: 10.1002/jlcr.3377)

Clark, J. S., Xu, C. (2016) Total synthesis of (–)-nakadomarin A. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 55, pp. 4332-4335. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201600990)

Racys, D. T., Sharif, S. A.I., Pimlott, S. L., Sutherland, A. (2016) Silver(I)-catalyzed iodination of Arenes: Tuning the Lewis acidity of N-iodosuccinimide activation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, pp. 772-780. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b02761)

Hill, R. A., Sutherland, A. (2016) Hot off the press. Natural Product Reports, 33, pp. 122-126. (doi: 10.1039/c5np90052b)

Thomas, F., Burgess, N. C., Thomson, A. R., Woolfson, D. N. (2016) Controlling the assembly of coiled-coil peptide nanotubes. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 55, pp. 987-991. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201509304)

Rennie, Y. K., McIntyre, P. J., Akindele, T., Bayliss, R., Jamieson, A. (2016) A TPX2 proteomimetic has enhanced affinity for Aurora-A due to hydrocarbon stapling of a helix. ACS Chemical Biology, 11, pp. 3383-3390. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00727)

McGarry, D. J., Shchepinova, M. M., Lillla, S., Hartley, R. C., Olson, M. F. (2016) A cell-permeable biscyclooctyne as a novel probe for the identification of protein sulfenic acids. ACS Chemical Biology, 11, pp. 3300-3304. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00742)

Letort, A., Long, D.-L., Prunet, J. (2016) Study of cascade ring-closing metathesis reactions en route to an advanced intermediate of Taxol. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81, pp. 12318-12331. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02264)

Synthesis and methodology

Our expertise is built on a sound foundation of synthetic organic chemistry. We achieve the most challenging syntheses, for example the complex natural product, Nakadomarin A. We develop groundbreaking synthetic methods. In some, we combine many synthetic steps into a single concise procedure. In others, absolute stereocontrol and catalysis are used, e.g. to make carbohydrate-like polymers.

Structural design

We carefully design synthetic targets for biological functions. Stapled peptides mimic protein-protein interactions. Computational methods explore the ways in which amino acids interact, so that function can be designed into synthetic peptides. Molecular probes based on precise mechanisms allow us to identify short-lived reactive species in living organisms.

Biomedical science

With our collaborators, we address the most difficult problems in biomedicine:

  • cardiovascular disease
  • dementia
  • heart attack
  • stroke
  • cancer
  • inflammation
  • transplant

Our compounds include diagnostics such as novel PET and SPECT tracers for imaging neurological diseases. We also uncover the mechanisms of disease and develop therapeutics.

Naturally we have a wide network of collaborators including biochemists, molecular biologists, medics, and evolutionary biologists.

Our interests

Professor Stephen Clark Total synthesis of complex natural products
Dr David France Drug conjugates, anti-parasitics, anti-bacterials
Professor Richard Hartley Molecular probes, prodrugs, ROS sensors, targeting, cardiovascular, inflammation, malaria
Mr Andrew Jamieson Peptides, peptidomimetics, ion channels, pain regulation, HDAC inhibitors, cancer
Dr Joelle Prunet Stereocontrol, functionalised polymers, metathesis, total synthesis of natural products
Dr Andrew Sutherland PET and SPECT tracers, diagnostics, neurological diseases, cancer, fluorophores, one-pot multi-reaction catalytic processes
Dr Drew Thomson Designer peptides, computer modeling

PhD opportunities

The Chemical Biology and Precision Synthesis research group is always interested in hearing from potential PhD students, and invite a number to join us each year.

We work in the following research areas:

  • Synthesis and Methodology
  • Structural Design
  • Biomedical Science
  • Chemical Biology
  • Precision Synthesis

Take a look at our staff list (above) for further information on our work.

Apply for a PhD with us

Identify the area of research that interests you and contact the potential supervisor by email, then apply for admission to the School of Chemistry (the  College of Science & Engineering Graduate School handles the application process).

Please visit How to apply for a postgraduate research degree for further information.