The PROTAC gold rush

K Garber - Nat. Biotechnol, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation never had it so good. In July, Pfizer paid Arvinas $650 million
up front, plus a $350-million equity investment, to jointly develop a PROTAC degrader, now …

Discovery of an orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor of prosurvival B-cell lymphoma 2 proteins

CM Park, M Bruncko, J Adickes, J Bauch… - Journal of medicinal …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Overexpression of prosurvival proteins such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL has been correlated with
tumorigenesis and resistance to chemotherapy, and thus, the development of antagonists of …

[HTML][HTML] MCL-1 and BCL-xL-dependent resistance to the BCL-2 inhibitor ABT-199 can be overcome by preventing PI3K/AKT/mTOR activation in lymphoid …

GS Choudhary, S Al-Harbi, S Mazumder, BT Hill… - Cell death & …, 2015 - nature.com
Overexpression of anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family members is a hallmark of many lymphoid
malignancies, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma …

Targeting anti‐apoptotic BCL 2 family proteins in haematological malignancies–from pathogenesis to treatment

M Vogler, HS Walter, MJS Dyer - British journal of haematology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The B‐cell lymphoma 2 (BCL 2) family of proteins comprise key regulators of apoptosis and
are implicated in the pathogenesis of many malignancies, including lymphomas and …

Bioorthogonal PROTAC prodrugs enabled by on-target activation

M Chang, F Gao, D Pontigon, G Gnawali… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have become promising therapeutic
modalities, important concerns exist about the potential toxicity of the approach owing to …

Rational design of bioorthogonally activatable PROTAC for tumor-targeted protein degradation

T Bi, P Liang, Y Zhou, H Wang, R Huang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein degradation mediated by the proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) has emerged
as an efficient strategy to accurately control intracellular protein levels. However, the …

In vivo efficacy of the Bcl-2 antagonist ABT-737 against aggressive Myc-driven lymphomas

KD Mason, CJ Vandenberg, CL Scott… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Deregulated Myc expression drives many human cancers, including Burkitt's lymphoma and
a highly aggressive subset of diffuse large cell lymphomas. Myc-driven tumors often display …

Small-molecule-induced polymerization triggers degradation of BCL6

M Słabicki, H Yoon, J Koeppel, L Nitsch… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Effective and sustained inhibition of non-enzymatic oncogenic driver proteins is a major
pharmacological challenge. The clinical success of thalidomide analogues demonstrates …

[HTML][HTML] PROTAC'ing oncoproteins: targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

JM Kelm, DS Pandey, E Malin, H Kansou, S Arora… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Molecularly targeted cancer therapies substantially improve patient outcomes, although the
durability of their effectiveness can be limited. Resistance to these therapies is often related …

Targeting of BCL2 family proteins with ABT-199 and homoharringtonine reveals BCL2-and MCL1-dependent subgroups of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

M Klanova, L Andera, J Brazina, J Svadlenka… - Clinical Cancer …, 2016 - AACR
Purpose: To investigate the roles of BCL2, MCL1, and BCL-XL in the survival of diffuse large
B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Experimental designs: Immunohistochemical analysis of 105 …