Protein degraders enter the clinic—a new approach to cancer therapy

D Chirnomas, KR Hornberger, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Heterobifunctional protein degraders, such as PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC)
protein degraders, constitute a novel therapeutic modality that harnesses the cell's natural …

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 …

An expanded lexicon for the ubiquitin code

I Dikic, BA Schulman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the ubiquitin code has greatly evolved from conventional E1, E2 and
E3 enzymes that modify Lys residues on specific substrates with a single type of ubiquitin …

[HTML][HTML] The different autophagy degradation pathways and neurodegeneration

A Fleming, M Bourdenx, M Fujimaki, C Karabiyik… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The term autophagy encompasses different pathways that route cytoplasmic material to
lysosomes for degradation and includes macroautophagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy …

The BioGRID database: A comprehensive biomedical resource of curated protein, genetic, and chemical interactions

R Oughtred, J Rust, C Chang, BJ Breitkreutz… - Protein …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The BioGRID (Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets, thebiogrid.
org) is an open‐access database resource that houses manually curated protein and …

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 …

Targeting NF-κB pathway for the therapy of diseases: mechanism and clinical study

H Yu, L Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, H Hu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2020 - nature.com
NF-κB pathway consists of canonical and non-canonical pathways. The canonical NF-κB is
activated by various stimuli, transducing a quick but transient transcriptional activity, to …

Mitochondrial quality control in health and in Parkinson's disease

MA Eldeeb, RA Thomas, MA Ragheb… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
As a central hub for cellular metabolism and intracellular signaling, the mitochondrion is a
pivotal organelle, dysfunction of which has been linked to several human diseases including …

Mechanisms of substrate processing during ER-associated protein degradation

JC Christianson, E Jarosch, T Sommer - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Maintaining proteome integrity is essential for long-term viability of all organisms and is
overseen by intrinsic quality control mechanisms. The secretory pathway of eukaryotes …

Insights from a 30-year journey: function, regulation and therapeutic modulation of PD1

K Chamoto, T Yaguchi, M Tajima, T Honjo - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
PD1 was originally discovered in 1992 as a molecule associated with activation-induced cell
death in T cells. Over the past 30 years, it was found that PD1 has a critical role in avoiding …