PROTACs: past, present and future

K Li, CM Crews - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules consisting of
one ligand that binds to a protein of interest (POI) and another that can recruit an E3 …

Chemistries of bifunctional PROTAC degraders

C Cao, M He, L Wang, Y He, Y Rao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a novel and promising therapeutic
strategy using small molecules to induce ubiquitin-dependent degradation of proteins. It has …

Chasing molecular glue degraders: screening approaches

A Domostegui, L Nieto-Barrado… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) govern all biological processes. Some small molecules
modulate PPIs through induced protein proximity. In particular, molecular glue degraders …

Design principles for cyclin K molecular glue degraders

Z Kozicka, DJ Suchyta, V Focht, G Kempf… - Nature chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular glue degraders are an effective therapeutic modality, but their design principles
are not well understood. Recently, several unexpectedly diverse compounds were reported …

Expanding chemical probe space: quality criteria for covalent and degrader probes

IV Hartung, J Rudolph, MM Mader… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Within druggable target space, new small-molecule modalities, particularly covalent
inhibitors and targeted degraders, have expanded the repertoire of medicinal chemists …

Targeted protein degradation by electrophilic PROTACs that stereoselectively and site-specifically engage DCAF1

Y Tao, D Remillard, EV Vinogradova… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation induced by heterobifunctional compounds and molecular
glues presents an exciting avenue for chemical probe and drug discovery. To date, small …

Affinity and cooperativity modulate ternary complex formation to drive targeted protein degradation

RP Wurz, H Rui, K Dellamaggiore… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation via “hijacking” of the ubiquitin-proteasome system using
proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) has evolved into a novel therapeutic modality …

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 …

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 …

Molecular glue discovery: current and future approaches

JA Dewey, C Delalande, SA Azizi, V Lu… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The intracellular interactions of biomolecules can be maneuvered to redirect signaling,
reprogram the cell cycle, or decrease infectivity using only a few dozen atoms. Such …