A tale of two tails: efficient profiling of protein degraders by specific functional and target engagement readouts

AL Chernobrovkin, C Cázares-Körner… - … the Science of Drug …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Targeted protein degradation represents an area of great interest, potentially offering
improvements with respect to dosing, side effects, drug resistance, and reaching …

The vital role of proteomics in characterizing novel protein degraders

AX Zhang, K Cassidy, G Dahl… - … the Science of Drug …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Mass spectrometry-based proteomics profiling is a discovery tool that enables researchers
to understand the mechanisms of action of drug candidates. When applied to proteolysis …

Small-molecule degraders beyond PROTACs—challenges and opportunities

JM Kastl, G Davies, E Godsman… - … the Science of Drug …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a recent strategy, utilizing the cell's proteostasis
machinery to deplete specific proteins. This represents a paradigm shift in early drug …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of cellular degradation kinetics for understanding mechanisms in targeted protein degradation

KM Riching, EA Caine, M Urh, DL Daniels - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted protein degradation has exploded over the past several years due to preclinical
and early clinical therapeutic success of numerous compounds, and the emergence of new …

Proteome integral solubility alteration (PISA) assay in mammalian cells for deep, high-confidence, and high-throughput target deconvolution

X Zhang, O Lytovchenko, SL Lundström, RA Zubarev… - Bio …, 2022 - bio-protocol.org
Chemical proteomics focuses on the drug–target–phenotype relationship for target
deconvolution and elucidation of the mechanism of action—key and bottleneck in drug …

Critical assessment of targeted protein degradation as a research tool and pharmacological modality

M Kostic, LH Jones - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Small molecules continue to dominate drug discovery because of their ease of use, lower
cost of manufacturing, and access to intracellular targets. However, despite these …

Perspectives on the development of first-in-class protein degraders

KM Rambacher, MF Calabrese… - Future Medicinal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Targeted protein degradation is a broad and expanding field aimed at the modulation of
protein homeostasis. A focus of this field has been directed toward molecules that hijack the …

Targeted protein degradation: Emerging concepts and protein state-specific targeting principles

AJ Tao, GE Gadbois, SA Buczynski… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degraders are heterobifunctional small molecules that link a target ligand
or bait to an E3-ligase binder via a chemical spacer. Upon entering the cell, these ligands …

Chasing molecular glue degraders: screening approaches

A Domostegui, L Nieto-Barrado… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) govern all biological processes. Some small molecules
modulate PPIs through induced protein proximity. In particular, molecular glue degraders …

E3-specific degrader discovery by dynamic tracing of substrate receptor abundance

A Hanzl, E Barone, S Bauer, H Yue… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a new pharmacology based on small-molecule
degraders that induce proximity between a protein of interest (POI) and an E3 ubiquitin …