Cysteine is a popular target of covalent drugs and can undergo redox modifications. Here, the authors developed cysteine probes, N-acryloylindole-alkynes, for imaging and chemoproteomics to study cysteine oxidation and to identify targetable hotspots by small molecule compounds.
- Tin-Yan Koo
- Hinyuk Lai
- Clive Yik-Sham Chung