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 …

Unifying principles of bifunctional, proximity-inducing small molecules

CJ Gerry, SL Schreiber - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Nature uses a variety of tools to mediate the flow of information in cells, many of which
control distances between key biomacromolecules. Researchers have thus generated …

Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS

CJ Schulze, KJ Seamon, Y Zhao, YC Yang, J Cregg… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The discovery of small-molecule inhibitors requires suitable binding pockets on protein
surfaces. Proteins that lack this feature are considered undruggable and require innovative …

Concurrent inhibition of oncogenic and wild-type RAS-GTP for cancer therapy

M Holderfield, BJ Lee, J Jiang, A Tomlinson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract RAS oncogenes (collectively NRAS, HRAS and especially KRAS) are among the
most frequently mutated genes in cancer, with common driver mutations occurring at codons …

PAAN/MIF nuclease inhibition prevents neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease

H Park, TI Kam, H Peng, SC Chou… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Parthanatos-associated apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) nuclease (PAAN), also known as
macrophage migration inhibitor factor (MIF), is a member of the PD-D/E (X) K nucleases that …

Strategies for the diversity-oriented synthesis of macrocycles

KT Mortensen, TJ Osberger, TA King, HF Sore… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Macrocycles have long been recognized as useful chemical entities for medicine, with
naturally occurring and synthetic macrocycles clinically approved for use as prescription …

Translational and therapeutic evaluation of RAS-GTP inhibition by RMC-6236 in RAS-driven cancers

J Jiang, L Jiang, BJ Maldonato, Y Wang, M Holderfield… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
RAS-driven cancers comprise up to 30% of human cancers. RMC-6236 is a RAS (ON) multi-
selective noncovalent inhibitor of the active, GTP-bound state of both mutant and wild-type …

Manumycin polyketides act as molecular glues between UBR7 and P53

Y Isobe, M Okumura, LM McGregor, SM Brittain… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular glues are an intriguing therapeutic modality that harness small molecules to
induce interactions between proteins that typically do not interact. However, such molecules …

Recent achievements and current trajectories of diversity-oriented synthesis

CJ Gerry, SL Schreiber - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
For two decades, diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) has facilitated the assembly of small-
molecule libraries comprising a variety of complex molecular architectures. Here, we …

Structural and functional annotation of solute carrier transporters: implication for drug discovery

V Dvorak, G Superti-Furga - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Solute carriers (SLCs) represent the largest group of membrane
transporters in the human genome. They play a central role in controlling the …