Harnessing the anti-cancer natural product nimbolide for targeted protein degradation

JN Spradlin, X Hu, CC Ward, SM Brittain… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Nimbolide, a terpenoid natural product derived from the Neem tree, impairs cancer
pathogenicity; however, the direct targets and mechanisms by which nimbolide exerts its …

Chemoproteomics-enabled discovery of covalent RNF114-based degraders that mimic natural product function

M Luo, JN Spradlin, L Boike, B Tong, SM Brittain… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
The translation of functionally active natural products into fully synthetic small-molecule
mimetics has remained an important process in medicinal chemistry. We recently discovered …

A nimbolide-based kinase degrader preferentially degrades oncogenic BCR-ABL

B Tong, JN Spradlin, LFT Novaes, E Zhang… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) and proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have
arisen as powerful therapeutic modalities for degrading specific proteins in a proteasome …

Nimbolide, a neem limonoid, is a promising candidate for the anticancer drug arsenal

S Nagini, R Nivetha, M Palrasu… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nimbolide, a major limonoid constituent of Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem,
has attracted increasing research attention owing to its wide spectrum of pharmacological …

Covalent ligand discovery against druggable hotspots targeted by anti-cancer natural products

EA Grossman, CC Ward, JN Spradlin, LA Bateman… - Cell chemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Many natural products that show therapeutic activities are often difficult to synthesize or
isolate and have unknown targets, hindering their development as drugs. Identifying …

Nimbolide, a neem limonoid abrogates canonical NF-κB and Wnt signaling to induce caspase-dependent apoptosis in human hepatocarcinoma (HepG2) cells

K Kavitha, RV Priyadarsini, P Anitha… - European journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), an oncogenic signaling factor plays a critical role in the
development and progression of various cancers. The objective of this study was to …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical proteomics identifies druggable vulnerabilities in a genetically defined cancer

L Bar-Peled, EK Kemper, RM Suciu, EV Vinogradova… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The transcription factor NRF2 is a master regulator of the cellular antioxidant response, and
it is often genetically activated in non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) by, for instance …

Covalent ligand screening uncovers a RNF4 E3 ligase recruiter for targeted protein degradation applications

CC Ward, JI Kleinman, SM Brittain, PS Lee… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation has arisen as a powerful strategy for drug discovery allowing
the targeting of undruggable proteins for proteasomal degradation. This approach most …

Application of mass spectrometry profiling to establish brusatol as an inhibitor of global protein synthesis

S Vartanian, TP Ma, J Lee, PM Haverty… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2016 - ASBMB
The KEAP1/Nrf2 pathway senses and responds to changes in intracellular oxidative stress.
Mutations that result in constitutive activation of Nrf2 are present in several human tumors …

Harnessing the E3 ligase KEAP1 for targeted protein degradation

J Wei, F Meng, KS Park, H Yim, J Velez… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) represent a new class of promising therapeutic
modalities. PROTACs hijack E3 ligases and the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), leading …