[HTML][HTML] Exploring the chemical space of orally bioavailable PROTACs

G Apprato, V Poongavanam, DG Jimenez, Y Atilaw… - Drug Discovery …, 2024 - Elsevier
A principal challenge in the discovery of proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) as oral
medications is their bioavailability. To facilitate drug design, it is therefore essential to …

Macrocycles and macrocyclization in anticancer drug discovery: Important pieces of the puzzle

C Zhang, F Liu, Y Zhang, C Song - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing disease-related proteins have been identified as novel therapeutic targets.
Macrocycles are emerging as potential solutions, bridging the gap between conventional …

Chamelogk: A chromatographic Chameleonicity quantifier to design orally bioavailable beyond-rule-of-5 drugs

D Garcia Jimenez, M Vallaro… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
New chemical modalities in drug discovery include molecules belonging to the bRo5
chemical space. Because of their complex and flexible structure, bRo5 compounds often …

Bifunctional degraders of cyclin dependent kinase 9 (CDK9): Probing the relationship between linker length, properties, and selective protein degradation

RJ Tokarski II, CM Sharpe, AC Huntsman… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) is a promising therapeutic target in multiple
cancer types, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Protein degraders, also known as …

IMHB-Mediated Chameleonicity in Drug Design: A Focus on Structurally Related PROTACs

D Garcia Jimenez, M Rossi Sebastiano… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular chameleonicity may enable compounds to compensate for the unfavorable ADME
properties typically associated with complex molecules, such as PROTACs. Here we present …

Conformational sampling deciphers the chameleonic properties of a VHL-based degrader

G Ermondi, DG Jimenez, M Rossi Sebastiano… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chameleonicity (the capacity of a molecule to adapt its conformations to the environment)
may help to identify orally bioavailable drugs in the beyond-Rule-of-5 chemical space …

Incorporating Synthetic Accessibility in Drug Design: Predicting Reaction Yields of Suzuki Cross-Couplings by Leveraging AbbVie's 15-Year Parallel Library Data Set

P Raghavan, AJ Rago, P Verma… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Despite the increased use of computational tools to supplement medicinal chemists'
expertise and intuition in drug design, predicting synthetic yields in medicinal chemistry …

Beyond Rule of Five and PROTACs in Modern Drug Discovery: Polarity Reducers, Chameleonicity, and the Evolving Physicochemical Landscape

E Price, M Weinheimer, A Rivkin… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Developing orally bioavailable drugs demands an understanding of absorption in early drug
development. Traditional methods and physicochemical properties optimize absorption for …

Structural and Physicochemical Features of Oral PROTACs

M Schade, JS Scott, TG Hayhow, A Pike… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Achieving oral bioavailability with Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) is a key
challenge. Here, we report the in vivo pharmacokinetic properties in mouse, rat, and dog of …

Computational methods and key considerations for in silico design of proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTACs)

A Abbas, F Ye - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), as heterobifunctional molecules, have
garnered significant attention for their ability to target previously undruggable proteins. Due …