Mechanism of degrader-targeted protein ubiquitinability

C Crowe, M Nakasone, S Chandler, MH Tatham… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Small molecule degraders of disease-driving proteins offer a clinically proven modality with
enhanced therapeutic efficacy and the potential to tackle previously undrugged targets …

Proteome-scale induced proximity screens reveal highly potent protein degraders and stabilizers

J Poirson, A Dhillon, H Cho, MHY Lam, N Alerasool… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Targeted protein degradation and stabilization are promising therapeutic modalities due to
their potency and versatility. However, only few E3 ligases and deubiquitinases have been …

Targeted protein degradation and the enzymology of degraders

SL Fisher, AJ Phillips - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degradation is an emerging strategy for drug discovery that employs small
molecules to catalyze the ubiquitination of target proteins, ultimately causing their …

Cellular resistance mechanisms to targeted protein degradation converge toward impairment of the engaged ubiquitin transfer pathway

P Ottis, C Palladino, P Thienger, A Britschgi… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimeras are bifunctional small molecules capable of recruiting a target
protein of interest to an E3 ubiquitin ligase that facilitates target ubiquitination followed by …

Perspectives on the development of first-in-class protein degraders

KM Rambacher, MF Calabrese… - Future Medicinal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Targeted protein degradation is a broad and expanding field aimed at the modulation of
protein homeostasis. A focus of this field has been directed toward molecules that hijack the …

Targeted protein degradation as a powerful research tool in basic biology and drug target discovery

T Wu, H Yoon, Y Xiong, SE Dixon-Clarke… - Nature Structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Controlled perturbation of protein activity is essential to study protein function in cells and
living organisms. Small molecules that hijack the cellular protein ubiquitination machinery to …

Discovery of Monovalent Direct Degraders of BRD4 that Act via the Recruitment of DCAF11

GS Parker, JI Toth, S Fish, G Blanco, T Kampert… - Molecular cancer …, 2024 - AACR
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) using the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) is a
rapidly growing drug discovery modality to eliminate pathogenic proteins. Strategies for TPD …

A deep dive into degrader-induced protein-protein interfaces

P Galli, C Pla-Prats, NH Thomä - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) relies on a comprehensive understanding of interfaces
between hijacked E3 ligases and their substrates. In vitro techniques often do not capture …

Chemical rewiring of ubiquitination by degraders and their selectivity routes

R Whelan, C Mayor-Ruiz - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is an essential process that curtails cellular levels of damaged and redundant
proteins. Chemical biologists have harnessed this natural system to induce the degradation …

Identification and selectivity profiling of small-molecule degraders via multi-omics approaches

NS Scholes, C Mayor-Ruiz, GE Winter - Cell Chemical Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The therapeutic modality of targeted protein degradation promises to overcome limitations of
traditional pharmacology. Small-molecule degraders recruit disease-causing proteins to E3 …