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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Antibody targeting of E3 ubiquitin ligases for receptor degradation

H Marei, WTK Tsai, YS Kee, K Ruiz, J He, C Cox, T Sun… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most current therapies that target plasma membrane receptors function by antagonizing
ligand binding or enzymatic activities. However, typical mammalian proteins comprise …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] PROTAC'ing oncoproteins: targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

JM Kelm, DS Pandey, E Malin, H Kansou, S Arora… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Molecularly targeted cancer therapies substantially improve patient outcomes, although the
durability of their effectiveness can be limited. Resistance to these therapies is often related …

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 …

Progress and challenges in targeted protein degradation for neurodegenerative disease therapy

Y Fang, J Wang, M Zhao, Q Zheng, C Ren… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are currently incurable diseases that cause progressive
degeneration of nerve cells. Many of the disease-causing proteins of NDs are “undruggable” …

Targeting ferroptosis: paving new roads for drug design and discovery

Y Gu, Y Li, J Wang, L Zhang, J Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis, first proposed in 2012, is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death
characterized by excessive polyunsaturated fatty acid oxidation. In the past decade …