An overview of PROTACs: a promising drug discovery paradigm

Z Liu, M Hu, Y Yang, C Du, H Zhou, C Liu, Y Chen… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) technology has emerged as a novel therapeutic
paradigm in recent years. PROTACs are heterobifunctional molecules that degrade target …

Small‐molecule PROTACS: new approaches to protein degradation

M Toure, CM Crews - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The current inhibitor‐based approach to therapeutics has inherent limitations owing to its
occupancy‐based model: 1) there is a need to maintain high systemic exposure to ensure …

PROTAC degraders as chemical probes for studying target biology and target validation

V Němec, MP Schwalm, S Müller… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Small molecule degraders such as PROTACs (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) have
emerged as new promising pharmacological modalities and the first PROTAC drug …

The state of the art of PROTAC technologies for drug discovery

C Wang, C Zheng, H Wang, L Zhang, Z Liu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein degradation technology has progressed dramatically since 2001 when proteolysis
targeting chimera (PROTAC) was first reported. Various of distinctive degradation …

Tracking the PROTAC degradation pathway in living cells highlights the importance of ternary complex measurement for PROTAC optimization

MP Schwalm, A Krämer, A Dölle, J Weckesser, X Yu… - Cell chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
The multi-step degradation process of PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) poses a
challenge for their rational development, as the rate-limiting steps that determine PROTACs …

Assays and technologies for developing proteolysis targeting chimera degraders

X Liu, X Zhang, D Lv, Y Yuan, G Zheng… - Future Medicinal …, 2020 - Future Science
Targeted protein degradation by small-molecule degraders represents an emerging mode of
action in drug discovery. Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are small molecules …

[HTML][HTML] Proteomic approaches advancing targeted protein degradation

G Sathe, GP Sapkota - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging modality for research and therapeutics.
Most TPD approaches harness cellular ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathways …

Chemistries of bifunctional PROTAC degraders

C Cao, M He, L Wang, Y He, Y Rao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a novel and promising therapeutic
strategy using small molecules to induce ubiquitin-dependent degradation of proteins. It has …

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) in cancer therapy

X Li, W Pu, Q Zheng, M Ai, S Chen, Y Peng - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are engineered techniques for targeted protein
degradation. A bifunctional PROTAC molecule with two covalently-linked ligands recruits …

PROTACs: great opportunities for academia and industry

X Sun, H Gao, Y Yang, M He, Y Wu, Y Song… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Although many kinds of therapies are applied in the clinic, drug-resistance is a major and
unavoidable problem. Another disturbing statistic is the limited number of drug targets, which …