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 …

Updates on immunotherapy and immune landscape in renal clear cell carcinoma

MC Kim, Z Jin, R Kolb, N Borcherding, JA Chatzkel… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCC) have several distinct
immunological features, including a high degree of immune infiltration and relatively low …

CD177 modulates the function and homeostasis of tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells

MC Kim, N Borcherding, KK Ahmed, AP Voigt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are one of the major immunosuppressive cell types in cancer and a
potential target for immunotherapy, but targeting tumor-infiltrating (TI) Treg cells has been …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering neoantigen vaccines to improve cancer personalized immunotherapy

Z Liu, J Lv, Q Dang, L Liu, S Weng, L Wang… - … journal of biological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy treatments harnessing the immune system herald a new era of personalized
medicine, offering considerable benefits for cancer patients. Over the past years, tumor …

PROTACs: Novel tools for improving immunotherapy in cancer

S Li, T Chen, J Liu, H Zhang, J Li, Z Wang, G Shang - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Posttranslational modifications (PTMs), such as phosphorylation, methylation, ubiquitination,
and acetylation, are important in governing protein expression levels. Proteolysis targeting …

Overcoming Gemcitabine Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer Using the BCL-XL–Specific Degrader DT2216

D Thummuri, S Khan, PW Underwood, P Zhang… - Molecular cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Pancreatic cancer is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United
States. Although gemcitabine is the standard of care for most patients with pancreatic …

Comprehensive analysis uncovers prognostic and immunogenic characteristics of cellular senescence for lung adenocarcinoma

W Lin, X Wang, Z Wang, F Shao, Y Yang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cellular senescence plays a crucial role in tumorigenesis, development and immune
modulation in cancers. However, to date, a robust and reliable cellular senescence-related …

Site-specific chemoenzymatic conjugation of high-affinity M6P glycan ligands to antibodies for targeted protein degradation

X Zhang, H Liu, J He, C Ou, TC Donahue… - ACS chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lysosome-targeting chimeras (LYTACs) offer an opportunity for the degradation of
extracellular and membrane-associated proteins of interest. Here, we report an efficient …

Trends in targeting Bcl-2 anti-apoptotic proteins for cancer treatment

Z Zhang, L Bai, L Hou, H Deng, S Luan, D Liu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Apoptosis is the major mode of programmed cell death, which conduces to maintain tissue
homeostasis, clearance of abnormal cells and development of organisms. Over the past two …

Targeted protein degradation: clinical advances in the field of oncology

AKAA Salama, MV Trkulja, E Casanova… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The field of targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a rapidly developing therapeutic modality
with the promise to tame disease-relevant proteins in ways that are difficult or impossible to …