DCAF1-based PROTACs with activity against clinically validated targets overcoming intrinsic-and acquired-degrader resistance

M Schröder, M Renatus, X Liang, F Meili… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) mediates protein level through small molecule induced
redirection of E3 ligases to ubiquitinate neo-substrates and mark them for proteasomal …

A versatile and sustainable multicomponent platform for the synthesis of protein degraders: proof-of-concept application to BRD4-degrading PROTACs

IP Bhela, A Ranza, FC Balestrero… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The use of small molecules to induce targeted protein degradation is increasingly growing in
the drug discovery landscape, and protein degraders have progressed rapidly through the …

[PDF][PDF] Chemoproteomics-enabled discovery of a covalent molecular glue degrader targeting NF-κB

EA King, Y Cho, NS Hsu, D Dovala, JM McKenna… - Cell chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation has arisen as a powerful therapeutic modality for degrading
disease targets. While proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) design is more modular, the …

Prospective discovery of small molecule enhancers of an E3 ligase-substrate interaction

KR Simonetta, J Taygerly, K Boyle, SE Basham… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) governing the recognition of substrates by E3 ubiquitin
ligases are critical to cellular function. There is significant therapeutic potential in the …

Predicting the structural basis of targeted protein degradation by integrating molecular dynamics simulations with structural mass spectrometry

T Dixon, D MacPherson, B Mostofian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a promising approach in drug discovery for degrading
proteins implicated in diseases. A key step in this process is the formation of a ternary …

3-Fluoro-4-hydroxyprolines: synthesis, conformational analysis, and stereoselective recognition by the VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase for targeted protein degradation

A Testa, X Lucas, GV Castro, KH Chan… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hydroxylation and fluorination of proline alters the pyrrolidine ring pucker and the trans: cis
amide bond ratio in a stereochemistry-dependent fashion, affecting molecular recognition of …

[PDF][PDF] Functional genomics identify distinct and overlapping genes mediating resistance to different classes of heterobifunctional degraders of oncoproteins

R Shirasaki, GM Matthews, S Gandolfi… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Heterobifunctional proteolysis-targeting chimeric compounds leverage the activity of E3
ligases to induce degradation of target oncoproteins and exhibit potent preclinical antitumor …

Chemical correction of pre-mRNA splicing defects associated with sequestration of muscleblind-like 1 protein by expanded r (CAG)-containing transcripts

A Kumar, R Parkesh, LJ Sznajder… - ACS chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Recently, it was reported that expanded r (CAG) triplet repeats (r (CAG) exp) associated with
untreatable neurological diseases cause pre-mRNA mis-splicing likely due to sequestration …

Snapshots and ensembles of BTK and cIAP1 protein degrader ternary complexes

J Schiemer, R Horst, Y Meng, JI Montgomery… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Heterobifunctional chimeric degraders are a class of ligands that recruit target proteins to E3
ubiquitin ligases to drive compound-dependent protein degradation. Advancing from initial …

A glycine-specific N-degron pathway mediates the quality control of protein N-myristoylation

RT Timms, Z Zhang, DY Rhee, JW Harper, I Koren… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ubiquitin-proteasome system is the major route through which the cell
achieves selective protein degradation. The E3 ubiquitin ligases are the major determinants …