Bioorthogonal chemistry for prodrug activation in vivo

Q Fu, S Shen, P Sun, Z Gu, Y Bai, X Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Prodrugs have emerged as a major strategy for addressing clinical challenges by improving
drug pharmacokinetics, reducing toxicity, and enhancing treatment efficacy. The emergence …

Target protein degradation by protacs: A budding cancer treatment strategy

D Choudhary, A Kaur, P Singh, G Chaudhary… - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the most common causes of death. So, its lethal effect increases with time.
Near about hundreds of cancers are known in humans. Cancer treatment is done to cure or …

Nanoscale Metal–Organic Framework with an X-ray Triggerable Prodrug for Synergistic Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy

Z Xu, W Zhen, C McCleary, T Luo, X Jiang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As heavy-metal-based nanoscale metal–organic frameworks (nMOFs) are excellent
radiosensitizers for radiotherapy via enhanced energy deposition and reactive oxygen …

Self-assembled nano-PROTAC enables near-infrared photodynamic proteolysis for cancer therapy

W Wang, C Zhu, B Zhang, Y Feng… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confining the protein degradation activity of proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) to
cancer lesions ensures precision treatment. However, it still remains challenging to precisely …

Stimuli‐Responsive PROTACs for Controlled Protein Degradation

K An, X Deng, H Chi, Y Zhang, Y Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) represent a promising therapeutic
modality to address undruggable and resistant issues in drug discovery. However, potential …

Stimuli-activatable PROTACs for precise protein degradation and cancer therapy

J Gao, L Yang, S Lei, F Zhou, H Nie, B Peng, T Xu… - Science bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) approach has attracted extensive attention in
the past decade, which represents an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to …

Recent advances in pro-PROTAC development to address on-target off-tumor toxicity

C Chen, Y Yang, Z Wang, H Li, C Dong… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology represents a novel and promising
modality for targeted protein degradation with transformative implications for the clinical …

Rational design of bioorthogonally activatable PROTAC for tumor-targeted protein degradation

T Bi, P Liang, Y Zhou, H Wang, R Huang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein degradation mediated by the proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) has emerged
as an efficient strategy to accurately control intracellular protein levels. However, the …

Targeted delivery of PROTAC-based prodrug activated by bond-cleavage bioorthogonal chemistry for microneedle-assisted cancer therapy

J Huang, Z Yao, B Li, Y Ping - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
Proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) is emerging as a new strategy to degrade target
proteins in a precise way by taking advantage of the cellular ubiquitin-proteasome system …

Coordination-driven FBXW7 DNAzyme-Fe nanoassembly enables a binary switch of breast cancer cell cycle checkpoint responses for enhanced ferroptosis …

J Yu, Y Zhang, L Li, Y Xiang, X Yao, Y Zhao, K Cai… - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is a mainstream modality for breast cancer treatment that employs ionizing
radiation (IR) to damage tumor cell DNA and elevate ROS stress, which demonstrates …