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 …

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 …

Put a ring on it: application of small aliphatic rings in medicinal chemistry

MR Bauer, P Di Fruscia, SCC Lucas… - RSC Medicinal …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Aliphatic three-and four-membered rings including cyclopropanes, cyclobutanes, oxetanes,
azetidines and bicyclo [1.1. 1] pentanes have been increasingly exploited in medicinal …

A decade of FDA-approved drugs (2010–2019): trends and future directions

DG Brown, HJ Wobst - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
A total of 378 novel drugs and 27 biosimilars approved by the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) between 2010 and 2019 were evaluated according to approval …

Emerging strategies to target RAS signaling in human cancer therapy

K Chen, Y Zhang, L Qian, P Wang - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract RAS mutations (HRAS, NRAS, and KRAS) are among the most common
oncogenes, and around 19% of patients with cancer harbor RAS mutations. Cells harboring …

Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) come of age: entering the third decade of targeted protein degradation

MJ Bond, CM Crews - RSC chemical biology, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the discovery of PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) twenty years ago,
targeted protein degradation (TPD) has changed the landscape of drug development …

Molecular glues: the adhesive connecting targeted protein degradation to the clinic

JM Sasso, R Tenchov, DS Wang, LS Johnson… - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation is a rapidly exploding drug discovery strategy that uses small
molecules to recruit disease-causing proteins for rapid destruction mainly via the ubiquitin …

Bispecific aptamer chimeras enable targeted protein degradation on cell membranes

Y Miao, Q Gao, M Mao, C Zhang, L Yang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to regulate membrane protein abundance offers great opportunities for
developing therapeutic sites for various diseases. Herein, we describe a platform for the …

Strategies for designing proteolysis targeting chimaeras (PROTACs)

S He, G Dong, J Cheng, Y Wu… - Medicinal Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Proteolysis targeting chimaeras (PROTACs) is a cutting edge and rapidly growing technique
for new drug discovery and development. Currently, the largest challenge in the molecular …

Discovery of norbornene as a novel hydrophobic tag applied in protein degradation

S Xie, F Zhan, J Zhu, Y Sun, H Zhu, J Liu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrophobic tagging (HyT) is a potential therapeutic strategy for targeted protein
degradation (TPD). Norbornene was discovered as an unprecedented hydrophobic tag in …