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 …

Advancing targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

B Dale, M Cheng, KS Park, HÜ Kaniskan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The human proteome contains approximately 20,000 proteins, and it is estimated that more
than 600 of them are functionally important for various types of cancers, including nearly 400 …

Molecular glues for targeted protein degradation: from serendipity to rational discovery

G Dong, Y Ding, S He, C Sheng - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation is a promising area in the discovery and development of
innovative therapeutics. Molecular glues mediate proximity-induced protein degradation and …

Cell cycle on the crossroad of tumorigenesis and cancer therapy

J Liu, Y Peng, W Wei - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Aberrancy in cell cycle progression is one of the fundamental mechanisms underlying
tumorigenesis, making regulators of the cell cycle machinery rational anticancer therapeutic …

Recent advances in targeting the “undruggable” proteins: from drug discovery to clinical trials

X Xie, T Yu, X Li, N Zhang, LJ Foster, C Peng… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Undruggable proteins are a class of proteins that are often characterized by large, complex
structures or functions that are difficult to interfere with using conventional drug design …

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 …

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 …

Emerging degrader technologies engaging lysosomal pathways

Y Ding, D Xing, Y Fei, B Lu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) provides unprecedented opportunities for drug
discovery. While the proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology has already …

Discovery of CRBN as a target of thalidomide: a breakthrough for progress in the development of protein degraders

J Yamamoto, T Ito, Y Yamaguchi… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Progress in strategies aimed at breaking down therapeutic target proteins has led to a
paradigm shift in drug discovery. Thalidomide and its derivatives are the only protein …

Major advances in targeted protein degradation: PROTACs, LYTACs, and MADTACs

SB Alabi, CM Crews - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Of late, targeted protein degradation (TPD) has surfaced as a novel and innovative chemical
tool and therapeutic modality. By co-opting protein degradation pathways, TPD facilitates …