Novel approaches to targeted protein degradation technologies in drug discovery

Y Xue, AA Bolinger, J Zhou - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Target protein degradation (TPD) provides a novel therapeutic modality, other
than inhibition, through the direct depletion of target proteins. Two primary human protein …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in covalent drug discovery

D Schaefer, X Cheng - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In spite of the increasing number of biologics license applications, the development of
covalent inhibitors is still a growing field within drug discovery. The successful approval of …

Chemical Specification of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Engagement by Cysteine-Reactive Chemistry

RC Sarott, I You, YD Li, ST Toenjes… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation relies on small molecules that induce new protein–protein
interactions between targets and the cellular protein degradation machinery. Most of these …

Targeted Protein Degradation through Recruitment of the CUL4 Complex Adaptor Protein DDB1

M Meyers, S Cismoski, A Panidapu… - ACS Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation has arisen as a powerful therapeutic modality for eliminating
proteins. Thus far, most heterobifunctional proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have …

[HTML][HTML] Template-assisted covalent modification of DCAF16 underlies activity of BRD4 molecular glue degraders

YD Li, MW Ma, MM Hassan, M Hunkeler, M Teng… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Small molecules that induce protein-protein interactions to exert proximity-driven
pharmacology such as targeted protein degradation are a powerful class of therapeutics 1 …

Structural and functional annotation of solute carrier transporters: implication for drug discovery

V Dvorak, G Superti-Furga - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Solute carriers (SLCs) represent the largest group of membrane
transporters in the human genome. They play a central role in controlling the …

The expanding repertoire of covalent warheads for drug discovery

NV Mehta, MS Degani - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The reactive functionalities of drugs that engage in covalent interactions with the
enzyme/receptor residue in either a reversible or an irreversible manner are …

[HTML][HTML] Functionalizing tandem mass tags for streamlining click-based quantitative chemoproteomics

NR Burton, KM Backus - Communications Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Mapping the ligandability or potential druggability of all proteins in the human proteome is a
central goal of mass spectrometry-based covalent chemoproteomics. Achieving this …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking the mechanism of covalent molecular glue stabilization using native mass spectrometry

CJA Verhoef, DF Kay, L van Dijck, RG Doveston… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular glues are powerful tools for the control of protein–protein interactions. Yet, the
mechanisms underlying multi-component protein complex formation remain poorly …

Emerging strategies for prospective discovery of molecular glue degraders

B Wang, S Cao, N Zheng - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Molecular glue (MG) degraders are monovalent small molecule compounds that co-opt E3
ubiquitin ligases to target neo-substrates for proteasomal degradation. Here, we provide a …