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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Allostery: allosteric cancer drivers and innovative allosteric drugs

R Nussinov, M Zhang, R Maloney, Y Liu, CJ Tsai… - Journal of molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here, we discuss the principles of allosteric activating mutations, propagation downstream of
the signals that they prompt, and allosteric drugs, with examples from the Ras signaling …

Translational PK–PD for targeted protein degradation

DW Bartlett, AM Gilbert - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted protein degradation has emerged from the chemical biology toolbox as one of the
most exciting areas for novel therapeutic development across the pharmaceutical industry …

Recent advances in induced proximity modalities

CSC Ng, SM Banik - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Challenging disease targets necessitate new approaches for therapeutic intervention.
Rewiring protein-biomolecule interactions with proximity-inducing agents extends …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Selective Wee1 degradation by PROTAC degraders recruiting VHL and CRBN E3 ubiquitin ligases

MC Aublette, TA Harrison, EJ Thorpe… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ser/Thr protein kinase Wee1 plays a regulatory role at the G 2/M checkpoint by
phosphorylating CDK1 when DNA is damaged to allow time for DNA to repair, disruption of …

Modeling the effect of cooperativity in ternary complex formation and targeted protein degradation mediated by heterobifunctional degraders

D Park, J Izaguirre, R Coffey, H Xu - ACS bio & med Chem Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemically induced proximity between certain endogenous enzymes and a protein of
interest (POI) inside cells may cause post-translational modifications to the POI with …

Exploring PROTAC cooperativity with coarse-grained alchemical methods

H Mai, MH Zimmer, TF Miller III - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) is a novel drug modality that facilitates the
degradation of a target protein by inducing proximity with an E3 ligase. In this work, we …

Atomic-resolution prediction of degrader-mediated ternary complex structures by combining molecular simulations with hydrogen deuterium exchange

T Dixon, D MacPherson, B Mostofian, T Dauzhenka… - Biorxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as a powerful approach in drug discovery
for removing (rather than inhibiting) proteins implicated in diseases. A key step in this …