Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Chemical Biology, 10(3), p. 1216-1229, 2022
DOI: 10.1039/d2cb00161f
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In this work, it is shown that an N-acyl hemiaminal motif present in many natural products can function as an electrophilic centre, mediating covalent reactivity in biological systems, reacting with both thiols and amines.