TCO-active ester as drug-delivery system

Milan Vrabel et al. believe that performing abiotic chemical reactions within particular organelles at the subcellular level opens up new avenues: by manipulating biological processes in a targeted manner, they can be studied in more detail and this strategy can also be used to develop organelle-targeted drug-delivery systems. (TCO-NHS / SC-8070 / SC-8072 / SC-8073)

Rastislav Dzijak et al.: JACS Au 2021, 1, 23−30 : Structurally Redesigned Bioorthogonal Reagents for Mitochondria-Specific Prodrug Activation

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.0c00053