An analysis of successful hit-to-clinical candidate pairs

DG Brown - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
An analysis of 156 published clinical candidates from the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
between 2018 and 2021 was conducted to identify lead generation strategies most …

Drug development targeting the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) for the treatment of human cancers

X Zhang, S Linder, M Bazzaro - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells are characterized by a higher rate of protein turnover and greater demand for
protein homeostasis compared to normal cells. In this scenario, the ubiquitin–proteasome …

Proteasome substrate receptors and their therapeutic potential

V Osei-Amponsa, KJ Walters - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022 - cell.com
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is critical for protein quality control and regulating
protein lifespans. Following ubiquitination, UPS substrates bind multidomain receptors that …

Role of proteasomes in inflammation

CC Goetzke, F Ebstein, T Kallinich - Journal of clinical medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) is involved in multiple cellular functions including
the regulation of protein homeostasis, major histocompatibility (MHC) class I antigen …

Site-specific proteasome inhibitors

AF Kisselev - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Proteasome is a multi-subunit protein degradation machine, which plays a key role in the
maintenance of protein homeostasis and, through degradation of regulatory proteins, in the …

Proteasome inhibitors: harnessing proteostasis to combat disease

DJ Sherman, J Li - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The proteasome is the central component of the main cellular protein degradation pathway.
During the past four decades, the critical function of the proteasome in numerous …

Proteasome inhibitors and their pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and metabolism

J Wang, Y Fang, RA Fan, CJ Kirk - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The proteasome is responsible for mediating intracellular protein degradation and
regulating cellular function with impact on tumor and immune effector cell biology. The …

On the role of the immunoproteasome in protein homeostasis

M Basler, M Groettrup - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Numerous cellular processes are controlled by the proteasome, a multicatalytic protease in
the cytosol and nucleus of all eukaryotic cells, through regulated protein degradation. The …

The role of quantum chemistry in covalent inhibitor design

LM Mihalovits, GG Ferenczy… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The recent ascent of targeted covalent inhibitors (TCI) in drug discovery brings new
opportunities and challenges to quantum chemical reactivity calculations supporting …

Structure-based optimization and discovery of M3258, a specific inhibitor of the immunoproteasome subunit LMP7 (β5i)

M Klein, M Busch, M Friese-Hamim… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteasomes are broadly expressed key components of the ubiquitin-dependent protein
degradation pathway containing catalytically active subunits (β1, β2, and β5). LMP7 (β5i) is …