• Acridinone-based anion transporters 

      McNaughton, Daniel A.; Macreadie, Lauren K.; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2021
      The arrangement of hydrogen bond donors around a central lipophilic scaffold has proven a successful strategy in the development of potent chloride transporters. In this work, we revisit an acridinone 1,9-bis(thio)urea ...
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    • Advances in Anion Receptor Chemistry 

      Chen, Lijun; Berry, Stuart N.; Wu, Xin; Howe, Ethan N.W.; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2020-01-01
      This review covers advances in anion complexation in the years 2017 and 2018. The review focuses on the applications of anion receptor chemistry, including sensing, self-assembly, extraction, transport, catalysis, and ...
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    • Advances in applied supramolecular technologies 

      Williams, George T.; Haynes, Cally J.E.; Fares, Mohamed; Caltagirone, Claudia; Hiscock, Jennifer; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2021
      Supramolecular chemistry is a comparatively young field that to date has mainly been focused on building a foundation of fundamental understanding. With much progress in this area, researchers are seeking to apply this ...
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    • Advances in fluorescent and colorimetric sensors for anionic species 

      McNaughton, Daniel A.; Fares, Mohamed; Picci, Giacomo; Gale, Philip A.; Caltagirone, Claudia
      Published 2021
      In this review we cover recent developments in fluorescent and colorimetric anion sensors. These systems employ a range of different non-covalent interactions including hydrogen- and halogen-bonding, Lewis acidic boron-based ...
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    • Anion binding in metal-organic frameworks 

      Wu, Xin; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2021
      Despite commonly being used as the host for gases, solvents and other neutral molecules, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have received recent attention as supramolecular anion binding hosts with a broad range of environmental ...
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    • Anion carriers as potential treatments for cystic fibrosis: transport in cystic fibrosis cells, and additivity to channel-targeting drugs† 

      Li, Hongyu; Valkenier, Hennie; Thorne, Abigail G.; Dias, Christopher M.; Cooper, James A.; Kieffer, Marion; Busschaert, Nathalie; Gale, Philip A.; Sheppard, David N.; Davis, Anthony P.
      Published 2019-10-01
      Defective anion transport is a hallmark of the genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF). One approach to restore anion transport to CF cells utilises alternative pathways for transmembrane anion transport, including artificial ...
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    • Anion receptor chemistry: Highlights from 2016 

      Gale, Philip A.; Howe, Ethan N.W.; Wu, Xin; Spooner, Michael J.
      Published 2018-02-01
      This review covers recent advances in anion receptor chemistry from 2016, including developments in self-assembly, sensing, anion separation, transport, catalysis and fundamental advances in anion recognition systems.
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    • Anion transport and supramolecular medicinal chemistry 

      Gale, Philip A.; Davis, Jeffery T.; Quesada, Roberto
      Published 2017-01-01
      New approaches to the transmembrane transport of anions are discussed in this review. Advances in the design of small molecule anion carriers are reviewed in addition to advances in the design of synthetic anion channels. ...
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    • Anion transport by ortho-phenylene bis-ureas across cell and vesicle membranes 

      Dias, Christopher M.; Li, Hongyu; Valkenier, Hennie; Karagiannidis, Louise E.; Gale, Philip A.; Sheppard, David N.; Davis, Anthony P.
      Published 2017-12-01
      Ortho-Phenylene bis-ureas serve as anionophores in cells expressing halide-sensitive yellow fluorescent protein, as well as in synthetic vesicles. Activities can reach high levels, and are strongly dependent on the ...
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    • Aryl urea substituted fatty acids: a new class of protonophoric mitochondrial uncoupler that utilises a synthetic anion transporter 

      Rawling, Tristan; MacDermott-Opeskin, Hugh; Roseblade, Ariane; Pazderka, Curtis; Clarke, Callum; Bourget, Kirsi; Wu, Xin; Lewis, William; Noble, Benjamin; Gale, Philip A.; O'Mara, Megan L.; Cranfield, Charles; Murray, Michael
      Published 2020
      Respiring mitochondria establish a proton gradient across the mitochondrial inner membrane (MIM) that is used to generate ATP. Protein-independent mitochondrial uncouplers collapse the proton gradient and disrupt ATP ...
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    • Binding and transport properties of a benzo[b]thiophene-based mono-(thio)urea library 

      Moiteiro, Cristina; Marques, Igor; Ryder, William G.; Cachatra, Vasco; Carvalho, Sílvia; Chen, Li-Jun; Goodfellow, Brian J.; Gale, Philip A.; Félix, Vítor
      Published 2021
      Using the chemical versatility of the benzo[ b ]thiophene motif, an extensive library of 24 (thio)urea receptors, with different binding properties and lipophilicities was prepared and included α,α-, α,β-, β,β-, β,γ-, α,γ-, ...
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    • Carbazole-based bis-ureas and thioureas as electroneutral anion transporters 

      Wang, Patrick; Wu, Xin; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2021
      We report a series of easily accessible carbazole-based bis-ureas and thioureas as effective anion receptors and transporters. The compounds exhibit moderate Cl− binding affinity in wet DMSO and Cl− transport capabilities ...
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    • Crown ether-thiourea conjugates as ion transporters 

      Zhao, Zhixing; Tang, Bailing; Yan, Xiaosheng; Wu, Xin; Li, Zhao; Gale, Philip A.; Jiang, Yun-Bao
      Published 2022
      Na+, Cl− and K+ are the most abundant electrolytes present in biological fluids that are essential to the regulation of pH homeostasis, membrane potential and cell volume in living organisms. Herein, we report synthetic ...
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    • Cyclic peptide unguisin A is an anion receptor with high affinity for phosphate and pyrophosphate 

      Ariawan, A. Daryl; Webb, James E.A.; Howe, Ethan N.W.; Gale, Philip A.; Thordarson, Pall; Hunter, Luke
      Published 2017-02-01
      Unguisin A (1) is a marine-derived, GABA-containing cyclic heptapeptide. The biological function of this flexible macrocycle is obscure. Here we show that compound 1 lacks any detectable activity in antimicrobial growth ...
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    • Delivering anion transporters to lipid bilayers in water 

      McNaughton, Daniel A.; To, Tsz Ying (Teresa); Hawkins, Bryson A.; Hibbs, David E.; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2021
      Cyclodextrins have been employed as delivery agents for lipophilic anion transporters, which allow their incorporation into lipid bilayers without using an organic solvent or pre-incorporation.
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    • Design of Chiral Supramolecular Polymers Exhibiting a Negative Nonlinear Response 

      Chen, Xuan-Xuan; Lin, Xiao-Yan; Wu, Xin; Gale, Philip A.; Anslyn, Eric V.; Jiang, Yun-Bao
      Published 2019-01-01
      Many synthetic and supramolecular chiral polymeric systems are known to exhibit the “majority rules effect” (MRE), a positive nonlinear response in which a small enantiomeric excess (ee) of the chiral building blocks leads ...
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    • Development of a library of thiophene-based drug-like LEGO molecules: evaluation of their anion binding, transport properties and cytotoxicity 

      Vieira, Paulo; Miranda, Margarida Q.; Marques, Igor; Carvalho, Sílvia; Li-Jun, Chen; Howe, Ethan N.W.; Zhen, Carl; Leung, Claudia Y.; Spooner, Michael J.; Morgado, Bárbara; da Cruz e Silva, Odete A.B.; Moiteiro, Cristina; Gale, Philip A.; Félix, Vítor
      Published 2020-01-01
      The anion binding and transport properties of an extensive library of thiophene-based molecules are reported. Seventeen bis-urea positional isomers, with different binding conformations and lipophilicities, were synthetized ...
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    • Dissecting the chloride–nitrate anion transport assay 

      Yang, Yufeng; Wu, Xin; Busschaert, Nathalie; Furuta, Hiroyuki; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2017-07-01
      A systematic study of chloride vs. nitrate selectivity across six anion transporters has revealed a good correlation between the selectivities of their anion binding and membrane transport properties. This work reveals the ...
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    • Fatty Acid Fueled Transmembrane Chloride Transport 

      Howe, Ethan N.W.; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2019-06-21
      Generation of chemical gradients across biological membranes of cellular compartments is a hallmark of all living systems. Here we report a proof-of-concept prototype transmembrane pumping system in liposomes. The pump ...
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    • Fluorescent squaramides as anion receptors and transmembrane anion transporters 

      Bao, Xiaoping; Wu, Xin; Berry, Stuart N.; Howe, Ethan N.W.; Chang, Young-Tae; Gale, Philip A.
      Published 2018-01-01
      A series of squaramide-based anion transporters functionalised with the 1,8-naphthalimide fluorophore has been developed for improved ionophoric activity and fluorescent imaging in cells.
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