14. S. Banerjee,  Z. V. Cakil,  K. Gallant,  J. van den Boom,  S. Palei,  H. Meyer,  M. Gersch,  D. Summerer “Light-Activatable Ubiquitin for Studying Linkage-Specific Ubiquitin Chain Formation Kinetics” Advanced Science, 2025, 12(6), e2406570.

13. S. Banerjee,  Z. V. Cakil,  K. Gallant,  J. van den Boom,  S. Palei,  H. Meyer,  M. Gersch,  D. Summerer “Light-Activatable Ubiquitin for Studying Linkage-Specific Ubiquitin Chain Formation Kinetics” Advanced Science, 2025, 12(6), e2406570.

12. S. De, R. Sahu, S. Palei, L. N. Nanda “Synthesis, SAR, and application of JQ1 analogs as PROTACs for cancer therapy” Bioorg. Med. Chem., 2024, 112, 117875

11. S. Palei, J. Weisner, M. Vogt, R. Gontala, B. Buchmuller, C. Ehrt, T. Grabe,  S. Kleinbölting, M. Müller, G. H. Clever, D. Rauh, D. Summerer  “Correction: A high-throughput effector screen identifies a novel small molecule scaffold for inhibition of ten-eleven translocation dioxygenase 2” RSC Med. Chem., 2024, 15, 753–754

10. S. Palei*, J. Weisner*, M. Vogt, R. Gontala, B. Buchmuller, C. Ehrt, T. Grabe,  S. Kleinbölting, M. Müller, G. H. Clever, D. Rauh, D. Summerer  “A high-throughput effector screen identifies a novel small molecule scaffold for inhibition of ten-eleven translocation dioxygenase 2” RSC Med. Chem., 2022, 13, 1540–1548

9. T.C. Lin, S. Palei, Daniel Summerer “Optochemical Control of TET Dioxygenases Enables Kinetic Insights into the Domain-Dependent Interplay of TET1 and MBD1 while Oxidizing and Reading 5-Methylcytosine” ACS Chem. Bio., 2022, 17, 7, 1844–1852

8. B.C. Buchmuller, J. Dröden, H. Singh, S. Palei, M. Drescher, R. Linser, D. Summerer “Evolved DNA Duplex Readers for Strand-Asymmetrically Modified 2 5‑Hydroxymethylcytosine/5-Methylcytosine CpG Dyads” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 7, 2987–2993 

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7. S. Palei, J. Jose, H.D. Mootz “Preparation of Bacterial Cell-Surface Displayed Semisynthetic Cyclic Peptides” Methods in Molecular Biology, 2022, 2371, 193-213.

6. J. Wolffgramm, B. Buchmuller, S. Palei, Á. Muñoz-Lopez, J. Kanne, P. Janning, M. R. Schweiger, D. Summerer “Light‐Activation of DNA‐Methyltransferases” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60(24):13507-13512. (Hot paper)

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5. S. Palei, H. D. Mootz “Semisynthetic head-to-tail cyclized peptides obtained by combining protein trans-splicing and intramolecular expressed protein ligation” Chem. Commun., 2021, 57(34), 4194-4197.

4. S. Palei, B. Buchmuller, J. Wolffgramm, Á. Muñoz-Lopez, S. Jung, P. Czodrowski, D. Summerer “Light-Activatable TET-Dioxygenases Reveal Dynamics of 5-Methylcytosine Oxidation and Transcriptome Reorganization” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 16, 7289-7294

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3. S. Palei*, K-S Becher*, C. Nienberg, J. Jose, H.D. Mootz “Bacterial cell surface display of semisynthetic cyclic peptide” ChemBioChem, 2019, 20, 1, 72-77. 

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2. S. Palei, H. D. Mootz “Preparation of semisynthetic macrocycle using split inteins” Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017, 1495, 77-92.

1. S. Palei, H. D. Mootz “Cyclic peptides made from synthetic and genetically encoded fragments” ChemBioChem, 2016, 17, 5, 378-382. 

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