Small-molecule displacement of a cryptic degron causes conditional protein degradation

KM Bonger, L Chen, CW Liu, TJ Wandless - Nature chemical biology, 2011 - nature.com
The ability to rapidly regulate the functions of specific proteins in living cells is a valuable
tool for biological research. Here we describe a new technique by which the degradation of …

Diving into the water: inducible binding conformations for BRD4, TAF1 (2), BRD9, and CECR2 bromodomains

TD Crawford, V Tsui, EM Flynn, S Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The biological role played by non-BET bromodomains remains poorly understood, and it is
therefore imperative to identify potent and highly selective inhibitors to effectively explore the …

Assessing the cell permeability of bivalent chemical degraders using the chloroalkane penetration assay

CA Foley, F Potjewyd, KN Lamb, LI James… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bivalent chemical degraders provide a catalytic route to selectively degrade disease-
associated proteins. By linking target-specific ligands with E3 ubiquitin ligase recruiting …

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 …

Defining the human C2H2 zinc finger degrome targeted by thalidomide analogs through CRBN

QL Sievers, G Petzold, RD Bunker, A Renneville… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide are clinically approved
therapies for the treatment of multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies. These …

SPR-measured dissociation kinetics of PROTAC ternary complexes influence target degradation rate

MJ Roy, S Winkler, SJ Hughes, C Whitworth… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bifunctional degrader molecules, known as proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs),
function by recruiting a target to an E3 ligase, forming a target/PROTAC/ligase ternary …

Degradation of polycomb repressive complex 2 with an EED-targeted bivalent chemical degrader

F Potjewyd, AMW Turner, J Beri, JM Rectenwald… - Cell chemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Protein degradation via the use of bivalent chemical degraders provides an alternative
strategy to block protein function and assess the biological roles of putative drug targets …

Structural characterization of degrader-induced ternary complexes using hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and computational modeling: implications …

SJ Eron, H Huang, RV Agafonov… - ACS Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The field of targeted protein degradation (TPD) has grown exponentially over the past
decade with the goal of developing therapies that mark proteins for destruction leveraging …

Rapid and direct control of target protein levels with VHL-recruiting dTAG molecules

B Nabet, FM Ferguson, BKA Seong, M Kuljanin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chemical biology strategies for directly perturbing protein homeostasis including the
degradation tag (dTAG) system provide temporal advantages over genetic approaches and …

[HTML][HTML] A critical evaluation of the approaches to targeted protein degradation for drug discovery

R Chopra, A Sadok, I Collins - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a great deal of excitement around the concept of targeting proteins for degradation
as an alternative to conventional inhibitory small molecules and antibodies. Protein …