Chasing molecular glue degraders: screening approaches

A Domostegui, L Nieto-Barrado… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
… Here, we provide an overview of the “molecular glue” concept, … clinical and preclinical
molecular glue degraders, and discuss … , molecular glue degraders can induce the degradation of …

Haven't got a glue: protein surface variation for the design of molecular glue degraders

Z Kozicka, NH Thomä - Cell Chemical Biology, 2021 - cell.com
… in ubiquitination and subsequent degradation of the recruited … already work as molecular
glue degraders, with many more … by monovalent degraders, with a focus on molecular glues

Rational discovery of molecular glue degraders via scalable chemical profiling

C Mayor-Ruiz, S Bauer, M Brand, Z Kozicka… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
… be liganded via small organic molecules. Conversely, molecular glue degraders were shown
to … thalidomide analogs (IMiDs) as molecular glue degraders exemplify how this particular …

Rational chemical design of molecular glue degraders

ES Toriki, JW Papatzimas, K Nishikawa… - ACS central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
… Targeted protein degradation with molecular glue degraders … through proteasome-mediated
degradation. However, we … -targeting ligands into molecular glue degraders. To overcome …

Emerging strategies for prospective discovery of molecular glue degraders

B Wang, S Cao, N Zheng - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
degradation of the target. Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) and molecular glue
(MG) degraders are two major classes of protein degraders (Figure 1a). PROTACs are bivalent …

Profiling the landscape of drug resistance mutations in neosubstrates to molecular glue degraders

PM Gosavi, KC Ngan, MJR Yeo, C Su, J Li… - ACS Central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
… To identify candidate drug resistance mechanisms to molecular glue degraders, we … treated
with either vehicle or the appropriate molecular glue degraders to select for candidate drug …

Discovery of molecular glue degraders via isogenic morphological profiling

A Ng, F Offensperger, JA Cisneros… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular glue degraders (MGDs) are small molecules that degrade proteins of interest via
the ubiquitin–proteasome system. While MGDs were historically discovered serendipitously, …

Design principles for cyclin K molecular glue degraders

Z Kozicka, DJ Suchyta, V Focht, G Kempf… - Nature chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
… Of particular interest are molecular glue degraders, which … discoveries of other molecular
glue degraders 7,8,9,10,11,12,… (CDK) inhibitor, is a molecular glue degrader that binds CDK12–…

Novel mechanisms of molecular glue-induced protein degradation

S Alabi - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
molecular glues have exceptional promise as a therapeutic modality. (1) Thus far, molecular
glue degradersmolecular glues can be utilized to induce the degradation of neosubstrates. …

Simple structural modifications converting a bona fide MDM2 PROTAC degrader into a molecular glue molecule: a cautionary tale in the design of PROTAC degraders

J Yang, Y Li, A Aguilar, Z Liu, CY Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… a PROTAC MDM2 degrader but instead works as a molecular glue, inducing degradation of
a … can convert a bona fide PROTAC degrader into a molecular glue compound, which has a …