CRISPR screen reveals BRD2/4 molecular glue-like degrader via recruitment of DCAF16

AG Shergalis, VL Marin, DY Rhee… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular glues (MGs) are monovalent small molecules that induce an interaction between
proteins (native or non-native partners) by altering the protein–protein interaction (PPI) …

Rational chemical design of molecular glue degraders

ES Toriki, JW Papatzimas, K Nishikawa… - ACS central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation with molecular glue degraders has arisen as a powerful
therapeutic modality for eliminating classically undruggable disease-causing proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Template-assisted covalent modification of DCAF16 underlies activity of BRD4 molecular glue degraders

YD Li, MW Ma, MM Hassan, M Hunkeler, M Teng… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Small molecules that induce protein-protein interactions to exert proximity-driven
pharmacology such as targeted protein degradation are a powerful class of therapeutics 1 …

Structural complementarity facilitates E7820-mediated degradation of RBM39 by DCAF15

TB Faust, H Yoon, RP Nowak, KA Donovan, Z Li… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
The investigational drugs E7820, indisulam and tasisulam (aryl-sulfonamides) promote the
degradation of the splicing factor RBM39 in a proteasome-dependent mechanism. While the …

Discovery of Molecular Glue Degraders via Isogenic Morphological Profiling

A Ng, F Offensperger, JA Cisneros… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular glue degraders (MGDs) are small molecules that degrade proteins of interest via
the ubiquitin–proteasome system. While MGDs were historically discovered serendipitously …

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 …

Molecular glue concept solidifies

K Baek, BA Schulman - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular-glue-mediated proximity-induced degradation now allows unprecedented
therapeutic targeting of previously undruggable proteins. Structures showing how aryl …

Discovery of new binders for DCAF1, an emerging ligase target in the targeted protein degradation field

A Vulpetti, P Holzer, N Schmiedeberg… - ACS Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this study, we describe the rapid identification of potent binders for the WD40 repeat
domain (WDR) of DCAF1. This was achieved by two rounds of iterative focused screening of …

Profiling the landscape of drug resistance mutations in neosubstrates to molecular glue degraders

PM Gosavi, KC Ngan, MJR Yeo, C Su, J Li… - ACS Central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) holds immense promise for drug discovery, but
mechanisms of acquired resistance to degraders remain to be fully identified. Here, we used …

Rational discovery of molecular glue degraders via scalable chemical profiling

C Mayor-Ruiz, S Bauer, M Brand, Z Kozicka… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is a new therapeutic modality based on drugs that destabilize
proteins by inducing their proximity to E3 ubiquitin ligases. Of particular interest are …