[HTML][HTML] PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue

M Békés, DR Langley, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to
tackle disease-causing proteins that have historically been highly challenging to target with …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted protein degradation: mechanisms, strategies and application

L Zhao, J Zhao, K Zhong, A Tong, D Jia - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Traditional drug discovery mainly focuses on direct regulation of protein activity. The
development and application of protein activity modulators, particularly inhibitors, has been …

[HTML][HTML] H3K4me3 regulates RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pause-release

H Wang, Z Fan, PV Shliaha, M Miele, RC Hendrickson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) is associated with transcriptional start sites
and has been proposed to regulate transcription initiation,. However, redundant functions of …

[HTML][HTML] Cohesin and CTCF control the dynamics of chromosome folding

P Mach, PI Kos, Y Zhan, J Cramard, S Gaudin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In mammals, interactions between sequences within topologically associating domains
enable control of gene expression across large genomic distances. Yet it is unknown how …

[HTML][HTML] Exclusion of m6A from splice-site proximal regions by the exon junction complex dictates m6A topologies and mRNA stability

A Uzonyi, D Dierks, R Nir, OS Kwon, U Toth, I Barbosa… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a widespread destabilizing mark on mRNA, is non-
uniformly distributed across the transcriptome, yet the basis for its selective deposition is …

RNA polymerase II dynamics shape enhancer–promoter interactions

G Barshad, JJ Lewis, AG Chivu, A Abuhashem… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How enhancers control target gene expression over long genomic distances remains an
important unsolved problem. Here we investigated enhancer–promoter communication by …

[HTML][HTML] Small-molecule inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and more: FDA-approved novel therapeutic drugs for solid tumors from 1991 to 2021

Q Wu, W Qian, X Sun, S Jiang - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has always been a
forerunner in drug evaluation and supervision. Over the past 31 years, 1050 drugs …

Advancing targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

B Dale, M Cheng, KS Park, HÜ Kaniskan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The human proteome contains approximately 20,000 proteins, and it is estimated that more
than 600 of them are functionally important for various types of cancers, including nearly 400 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Lysosome-targeting chimaeras for degradation of extracellular proteins

SM Banik, K Pedram, S Wisnovsky, G Ahn, NM Riley… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The majority of therapies that target individual proteins rely on specific activity-modulating
interactions with the target protein—for example, enzyme inhibition or ligand blocking …