From conception to development: investigating PROTACs features for improved cell permeability and successful protein degradation

C Cecchini, S Pannilunghi, S Tardy… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional degraders that
specifically eliminate targeted proteins by hijacking the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) …

Decoding the messaging of the ubiquitin system using chemical and protein probes

LT Henneberg, BA Schulman - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Post-translational modification of proteins by ubiquitin is required for nearly all aspects of
eukaryotic cell function. The numerous targets of ubiquitylation, and variety of ubiquitin …

Development of BromoTag: a “Bump-and-Hole”–PROTAC system to induce potent, rapid, and selective degradation of tagged target proteins

AG Bond, C Craigon, KH Chan, A Testa… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Small-molecule-induced protein depletion technologies, also called inducible degrons,
allow degradation of genetically engineered target proteins within cells and animals. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular glues modulate protein functions by inducing protein aggregation: A promising therapeutic strategy of small molecules for disease treatment

H Wu, H Yao, C He, Y Jia, Z Zhu, S Xu, D Li… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular glues can specifically induce aggregation between two or more proteins to
modulate biological functions. In recent years, molecular glues have been widely used as …

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of trivalent PROTACs having a functionalization site with controlled orientation

Y Huang, H Yokoe, A Kaiho-Soma… - Bioconjugate …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Trivalent PROTACs having a functionalization site with controlled orientation were designed,
synthesized, and evaluated. Based on the X-ray structure of BRD protein degrader MZ1 (1) …

A Reliable and Sustainable Multicomponent Access to Protein Degraders

IP Bhela, A Ranza, M Serafini, T Pirali - 2021 - chemrxiv.org
The use of small molecules to induce targeted protein degradation is increasingly growing in
the drug discovery landscape and protein degraders have progressed rapidly through the …