An engineered chimeric toxin that cleaves activated mutant and wild-type RAS inhibits tumor growth

V Vidimar, GL Beilhartz, M Park… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Despite nearly four decades of effort, broad inhibition of oncogenic RAS using small-
molecule approaches has proven to be a major challenge. Here we describe the …

SaLT&PepPr is an interface-predicting language model for designing peptide-guided protein degraders

G Brixi, T Ye, L Hong, T Wang, C Monticello… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are critical for biological processes and predicting the
sites of these interactions is useful for both computational and experimental applications. We …

Molecular glues: enhanced protein-protein interactions and cell proteome editing

EG Weagel, JM Foulks, A Siddiqui… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2022 - Springer
The druggable genome is limited by structural features that can be targeted by small
molecules in disease-relevant proteins. While orthosteric and allosteric protein modulators …

Targeted protein knockdown using small molecule degraders

K Raina, CM Crews - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Small molecule protein degraders (PROTACs) can target the 'undruggable'
proteome.•Ligands that bind the target anywhere on its surface can be used to make …

Targeted degradation of proteins localized in subcellular compartments by hybrid small molecules

K Okuhira, T Shoda, R Omura, N Ohoka, T Hattori… - Molecular …, 2017 - ASPET
Development of novel small molecules that selectively degrade pathogenic proteins would
provide an important advance in targeted therapy. Recently, we have devised a series of …

Broad-spectrum proteome editing with an engineered bacterial ubiquitin ligase mimic

MB Ludwicki, J Li, EA Stephens, RW Roberts… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Manipulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway to achieve targeted silencing of cellular
proteins has emerged as a reliable and customizable strategy for remodeling the …

Impact of target warhead and linkage vector on inducing protein degradation: comparison of bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) degraders derived from …

KH Chan, M Zengerle, A Testa… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The design of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) is a powerful small-molecule
approach for inducing protein degradation. PROTACs conjugate a target warhead to an E3 …

Combinatorial Ubiquitination REal-time PROteolysis (CURE-PROs): a modular platform for generating reversible, self-assembling bifunctional targeted degraders

SF Giardina, E Valdambrini, PK Singh… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are bifunctional molecules that bring a target
protein and an E3 ubiquitin ligase into proximity to append ubiquitin, thus directing target …

Synthetic biology approaches for targeted protein degradation

RP Chen, AS Gaynor, W Chen - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Protein degradation is an effective native mechanism used in modulating intracellular
information, and thus it plays an essential role in maintaining cellular homeostasis …

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras as therapeutics and tools for biological discovery

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
New biological tools provide new techniques to probe fundamental biological processes.
Here we describe the burgeoning field of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which …