PROTACs: an emerging therapeutic modality in precision medicine

DA Nalawansha, CM Crews - Cell chemical biology, 2020 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as an exciting new era in chemical
biology and drug discovery. PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC) technology targets …

Unlocking the potential of PROTACs: A comprehensive review of protein degradation strategies in disease therapy

RP Bhole, PR Kute, RV Chikhale, CG Bonde, A Pant… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The technology known asPROTACs (PROteolysisTArgeting Chimeras) is a method of
protein degradation. Utilising bifunctional small molecules, the ubiquitin-proteosome system …

PROTACs: past, present and future

K Li, CM Crews - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules consisting of
one ligand that binds to a protein of interest (POI) and another that can recruit an E3 …

Prime time for PROTACs

RJ Deshaies - Nature chemical biology, 2015 - nature.com
PROTACs are heterobifunctional small molecules that simultaneously bind a target protein
and a ubiquitin ligase, enabling ubiquitination and degradation of the target. Major progress …

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras: harnessing the ubiquitin-proteasome system to induce degradation of specific target proteins

KG Coleman, CM Crews - Annual Review of Cancer Biology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The ubiquitin-proteasome system plays a central role in regulating protein homeostasis in
mammalian cells. It is a multistep process involving the polyubiquitination of proteins prior to …

Protein degradation by in-cell self-assembly of proteolysis targeting chimeras

H Lebraud, DJ Wright, CN Johnson… - ACS central …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Selective degradation of proteins by proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) offers a
promising potential alternative to protein inhibition for therapeutic intervention. Current …

Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) come of age: entering the third decade of targeted protein degradation

MJ Bond, CM Crews - RSC chemical biology, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the discovery of PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) twenty years ago,
targeted protein degradation (TPD) has changed the landscape of drug development …

bioPROTACs as versatile modulators of intracellular therapeutic targets including proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)

S Lim, R Khoo, KM Peh, J Teo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Targeted degradation approaches such as proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) offer
new ways to address disease through tackling challenging targets and with greater potency …

PROTAC-DB: an online database of PROTACs

G Weng, C Shen, D Cao, J Gao, X Dong… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which selectively degrade targeted
proteins by the ubiquitin-proteasome system, have emerged as a novel therapeutic …

Opportunities and challenges of small molecule induced targeted protein degradation

M He, W Lv, Y Rao - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTAC) represents a new type of small molecule induced
protein degradation technology that has emerged in recent years. PROTAC uses …