Induced protein degradation: an emerging drug discovery paradigm

AC Lai, CM Crews - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Small-molecule drug discovery has traditionally focused on occupancy of a binding site that
directly affects protein function, and this approach typically precludes targeting proteins that …

Targeted protein degradation: from chemical biology to drug discovery

PM Cromm, CM Crews - Cell chemical biology, 2017 - cell.com
Traditional pharmaceutical drug discovery is almost exclusively focused on directly
controlling protein activity to cure diseases. Modulators of protein activity, especially …

Small-molecule modulation of protein homeostasis

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Control of protein levels by nucleic-acid-based technologies has proven to be a useful
research tool but lacks the advantages of small molecules with respect to cell permeability …

The rise of degrader drugs

M Teng, NS Gray - Cell Chemical Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The cancer genomics revolution has served up a plethora of promising and challenging
targets for the drug discovery community. The field of targeted protein degradation (TPD) …

Androgen receptor function and androgen receptor–targeted therapies in breast cancer: a review

M Kono, T Fujii, B Lim, MS Karuturi, D Tripathy… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The androgen receptor (AR) pathway is emerging as a potential therapeutic
target in breast cancer. To date, AR-targeted drugs have been approved only for treatment of …

Nuclear receptors: recent drug discovery for cancer therapies

L Zhao, S Zhou, JÅ Gustafsson - Endocrine reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Nuclear receptors (NRs) are transcription factors actively involved in many aspects of human
physiology and pathology, serving as sensors of stimuli, master regulators of downstream …

CBP/p300: critical co-activators for nuclear steroid hormone receptors and emerging therapeutic targets in prostate and breast cancers

AR Waddell, H Huang, D Liao - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The CREB-binding protein (CBP) and p300 are paralogous lysine
acetyltransferases that serve as critical co-activators for transcription factors involved in …

Targeting Brd4 for cancer therapy: inhibitors and degraders

Y Duan, Y Guan, W Qin, X Zhai, B Yu, H Liu - Medchemcomm, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bromodomain-containing protein 4 (Brd4) plays an important role in mediating the
expression of genes involved in cancers and non-cancer diseases such as inflammatory …

Evolution of androgen receptor targeted therapy for advanced prostate cancer

YNS Wong, R Ferraldeschi, G Attard… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2014 - nature.com
The discovery of androgen dependence in prostate cancer in 1941 by Huggins and
colleagues has remained the backbone for the treatment of this disease. However, although …

Targeted protein degradation by small molecules

DP Bondeson, CM Crews - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Protein homeostasis networks are highly regulated systems responsible for maintaining the
health and productivity of cells. Whereas therapeutics have been developed to disrupt …