The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

Progress and challenges in targeted protein degradation for neurodegenerative disease therapy

Y Fang, J Wang, M Zhao, Q Zheng, C Ren… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are currently incurable diseases that cause progressive
degeneration of nerve cells. Many of the disease-causing proteins of NDs are “undruggable” …

Antibody targeting of E3 ubiquitin ligases for receptor degradation

H Marei, WTK Tsai, YS Kee, K Ruiz, J He, C Cox, T Sun… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most current therapies that target plasma membrane receptors function by antagonizing
ligand binding or enzymatic activities. However, typical mammalian proteins comprise …

Cytosolic antibody receptor TRIM21 is required for effective tau immunotherapy in mouse models

AS Mukadam, LVC Miller, AE Smith, M Vaysburd… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Aggregates of the protein tau are proposed to drive pathogenesis in neurodegenerative
diseases. Tau can be targeted by using passively transferred antibodies (Abs), but the …

TRIM21/Ro52-roles in innate immunity and autoimmune disease

EL Jones, SM Laidlaw, LB Dustin - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
TRIM21 (Ro52/SSA1) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase with key roles in immune host defence, signal
transduction, and possibly cell cycle regulation. It is also an autoantibody target in Sjögren's …

Opportunities and challenges of protein-based targeted protein degradation

F Shen, LMK Dassama - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the 20 years since the first report of a proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) molecule,
targeted protein degradation (TPD) technologies have attempted to revolutionize the fields …

Protein degradation: expanding the toolbox to restrain cancer drug resistance

H Ming, B Li, J Jiang, S Qin, EC Nice, W He… - Journal of hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Despite significant progress in clinical management, drug resistance remains a major
obstacle. Recent research based on protein degradation to restrain drug resistance has …

Potent TRIM21 and complement-dependent intracellular antiviral immunity requires the IgG3 hinge

S Foss, A Jonsson, M Bottermann, R Watkinson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Humans have four IgG antibody subclasses that selectively or differentially engage immune
effector molecules to protect against infections. Although IgG1 has been studied in detail …

TRIM family contribute to tumorigenesis, cancer development, and drug resistance

N Huang, X Sun, P Li, X Liu, X Zhang, Q Chen… - … Hematology & Oncology, 2022 - Springer
The tripartite-motif (TRIM) family represents one of the largest classes of putative single
protein RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligases. TRIM family is involved in a variety of cellular …

Aggregate-selective removal of pathological tau by clustering-activated degraders

J Benn, S Cheng, S Keeling, AE Smith, MJ Vaysburd… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Selective degradation of pathological protein aggregates while sparing monomeric forms is
of major therapeutic interest. The E3 ligase tripartite motif–containing protein 21 (TRIM21) …