
The Raj Group
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Cyclic peptides. Fluorescent Probes. Using organic synthesis to help solve medical problems. #Bioorganic
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https://raj.emorychem.science/ 10-07-2020 01:20:20
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Super proud of undergraduate students in my lab Daniel Wang Daniel Wang and Patrick Czabala who executed the entire project and published Nature Communications paper nature.com/articles/s4146…. #proud PI #FuTine #homogeneous bioconjugation #multicomponent

First paper from my lab by Rachel WIlls in the field of Chemical Sensors to visualize biological metabolites inside live cells. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… This sensor has the potential to act as a diagnostic tool for early disease detection. Chemical Science


Check out the PTM detection method from my lab by Benjamin Emenike. Multicomponent Oxidative Nitrile Thiazolidination Reaction for Selective Modification of N-terminal Dimethylation Posttranslational Modification | pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… #jacs Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS)

Mystery finally solved for our flagship Exclusive intramolecular nature of “CyClick Chemistry” developed by Victor Tolulope Adebomi and Applied by Angele Bruce It is all about IMHB interactions and Zwitterion.Great collaboration with K.N Houk lab UCLA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…


Great conversation and dinner with ChemBio group College of Chemistry Toste Group Chris Chang and Matthew Francis. Thank you for hosting.


Introducing a new fluorescent IR sensors to measure the total aldehyde levels in vivo Chemical Science. Congratulations Rachel WIlls Dr. Rajendra Shirke & The Raj Group Emory Chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Introducing Tag-free approach for making and sequencing cyclic peptide libraries for identifying lead compounds for biological targets Angewandte Chemie . Great collaboration and Congratulations! Angele Bruce Victor Tolulope Adebomi The Raj Group Sarafianos Lab Gaurav Bhardwaj onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Check out the first chemical approach for the selective modification of Dimethyl lysine PTMs to Aldehyde under physiological conditions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Emory Chemistry Congratulations! Benjamin Emenike (newly minted PhD) from The Raj Group #PTMs #TACO pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Check out the chemical approach for making Allysine PTMs and its application in the synthesis of peptide aldehydes. Angewandte Chemie The Raj Group Emory Chemistry #allysine #PTMs #peptide Congratulations! Benjamin Emenike and talented undergraduate Sophia Shaheen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…


Raj lab is thrilled to announce that we’ve swept up 5 awards in Research at both undergraduate and graduate levels including best dissertation award. Congratulations! Benjamin Lyndsey Prosser John Talabot ; Sophia and Tuan Emory Chemistry Emory College #researchExcellence #ScienceWins


Check out our Copper (I) Nitrene Platform for the Chemoproteomic profilling of Methionine. Nature Communications Emory Chemistry Congratulations! Benjamin Emenike and Samrat Sahu The Raj Group #chemoproteomics #CuNiP platform link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Congrats Kyle F. Biegasiewicz - great to see this come together! Its awesome to have such a talented creative biocatalysis group in the department!!!

Acrolein-Mediated Conversion of Lysine to Electrophilic Heterocycles for Protein Diversification and Toxicity Profiling | Journal of the American Chemical Society Monika Raj Emory University Emory Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Another awesome advance from Monika Raj and collaborators Emory Chemistry Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University! Congratulations!

KFB Lab Alert: Enzymatic Halide Recycling for intermolecular bond formation is now online J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Congratulations to Manik Sharma, Cameron Pascoe, Stacey Jones, and Sophie Barthel! And huge thank you to The Davis Lab for an awesome collaboration! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
