[HTML][HTML] Applications of protein ubiquitylation and deubiquitylation in drug discovery

Y Chen, H Xue, J Jin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is the major machinery mediating specific protein
turnover in eukaryotic cells. By ubiquitylating unwanted, damaged, or harmful proteins and …

An artificial intelligence accelerated virtual screening platform for drug discovery

G Zhou, DV Rusnac, H Park, D Canzani… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based virtual screening is a key tool in early drug discovery, with growing
interest in the screening of multi-billion chemical compound libraries. However, the success …

Modulating β-catenin homeostasis for cancer therapy

Y Xu, Y Yu, R Yan, X Ke, Y Qu - Trends in Cancer, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract β-Catenin is a well-established driver of many cancers; however, there are
challenges in developing agents targeting β-catenin for clinical use. Recent progress has …

Proteome-scale discovery of protein degradation and stabilization effectors

J Poirson, H Cho, A Dhillon, S Haider, AZ Imrit… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation and stabilization are promising therapeutic modalities
because of their potency, versatility and their potential to expand the druggable target …

Reversible male contraception by targeted inhibition of serine/threonine kinase 33

AF Ku, KL Sharma, HM Ta, CM Sutton, KM Bohren… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Men or mice with homozygous serine/threonine kinase 33 (STK33) mutations are sterile
owing to defective sperm morphology and motility. To chemically evaluate STK33 for male …

Principles of paralog-specific targeted protein degradation engaging the C-degron E3 KLHDC2

DC Scott, S Dharuman, E Griffith, SC Chai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
PROTAC®(proteolysis-targeting chimera) molecules induce proximity between an E3 ligase
and protein-of-interest (POI) to target the POI for ubiquitin-mediated degradation …

Development of PROTAC Degrader Drugs for Cancer

V Vetma, S O'Connor, A Ciulli - Annual Review of Cancer …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The development of novel drug modalities is necessary to overcome the current critical
issues in the treatment of cancer, namely toxicity, insufficient efficacy, and the development …

Unlocking DCAFs To Catalyze Degrader Development: An Arena for Innovative Approaches

Q Miao, VD Kadam, A Mukherjee, Z Tan… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemically induced proximity-based targeted protein degradation (TPD) has become a
prominent paradigm in drug discovery. With the clinical benefit demonstrated by certain …

Discovery of SOCS7 as a versatile E3 ligase for protein-based degraders

A Cornebois, M Sorbara, M Cristol, E Vigne… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) strategy harnesses the ubiquitin-proteasome system
(UPS) to degrade a protein of interest (POI) by bringing it into proximity with an E3 ubiquitin …

NRBP1 pseudokinase binds to and activates the WNK pathway in response to osmotic stress

R Amnekar, T Dite, P Lis, S Bell, F Brown, C Johnson… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
WNK family kinases are regulated by osmotic stress and control ion homeostasis by
activating SPAK and OXSR1 kinases. Using a proximity ligation approach, we found that …