From thalidomide to rational molecular glue design for targeted protein degradation

V Oleinikovas, P Gainza, T Ryckmans… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Thalidomide and its derivatives are powerful cancer therapeutics that are among the best-
understood molecular glue degraders (MGDs). These drugs selectively reprogram the E3 …

Small-molecule discovery through DNA-encoded libraries

AA Peterson, DR Liu - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
The development of bioactive small molecules as probes or drug candidates requires
discovery platforms that enable access to chemical diversity and can quickly reveal new …

Functional E3 ligase hotspots and resistance mechanisms to small-molecule degraders

A Hanzl, R Casement, H Imrichova, SJ Hughes… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is a novel pharmacology established by drugs that recruit
target proteins to E3 ubiquitin ligases. Based on the structure of the degrader and the target …

Delivering on the promise of protein degraders

MN O'Brien Laramy, S Luthra, MF Brown… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past 3 years, the first bivalent protein degraders intentionally designed for targeted
protein degradation (TPD) have advanced to clinical trials, with an initial focus on …

Recruitment of FBXO22 for targeted degradation of NSD2

DY Nie, JR Tabor, J Li, M Kutera, J St-Germain… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic strategy that would benefit
from new chemical entities with which to recruit a wider variety of ubiquitin E3 ligases to …

Alkylamine-tethered molecules recruit FBXO22 for targeted protein degradation

C Kagiou, JA Cisneros, J Farnung, J Liwocha… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) relies on small molecules to recruit proteins to E3
ligases to induce their ubiquitylation and degradation by the proteasome. Only a few of the …

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 …

A mechanistic pharmacodynamic modeling framework for the assessment and optimization of proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs)

RTU Haid, A Reichel - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The field of targeted protein degradation is growing exponentially. Yet, there is an unmet
need for pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models that provide mechanistic insights, while …

The new direction of drug development: Degradation of undruggable targets through targeting chimera technology

X Liang, H Ren, F Han, R Liang… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Imbalances in protein and noncoding RNA levels in vivo lead to the occurrence of many
diseases. In addition to the use of small molecule inhibitors and agonists to restore these …

PROTACs: Current and Future Potential as a Precision Medicine Strategy to Combat Cancer

KA Rutherford, KJ McManus - Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 2024 - AACR
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTAC) are an emerging precision medicine strategy,
which targets key proteins for proteolytic degradation to ultimately induce cancer cell killing …