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 …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

Advances in targeting 'undruggable'transcription factors with small molecules

MJ Henley, AN Koehler - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer,
autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors …

[PDF][PDF] PROTACs: an emerging therapeutic modality in precision medicine

DA Nalawansha, CM Crews - Cell chemical biology, 2020 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as an exciting new era in chemical
biology and drug discovery. PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC) technology targets …

The CDK inhibitor CR8 acts as a molecular glue degrader that depletes cyclin K

M Słabicki, Z Kozicka, G Petzold, YD Li, M Manojkumar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular glue compounds induce protein–protein interactions that, in the context of a
ubiquitin ligase, lead to protein degradation. Unlike traditional enzyme inhibitors, these …

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 …

Rational discovery of molecular glue degraders via scalable chemical profiling

C Mayor-Ruiz, S Bauer, M Brand, Z Kozicka… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is a new therapeutic modality based on drugs that destabilize
proteins by inducing their proximity to E3 ubiquitin ligases. Of particular interest are …

E3 ligase ligands for PROTACs: how they were found and how to discover new ones

T Ishida, A Ciulli - … Advancing the Science of Drug Discovery, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Bifunctional degrader molecules, also called proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), are
a new modality of chemical tools and potential therapeutics to understand and treat human …