[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 …

Breaking Bad Proteins—Discovery Approaches and the Road to Clinic for Degraders

C Bouvier, R Lawrence, F Cavallo, W Xolalpa… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) describe compounds that bind to and induce
degradation of a target by simultaneously binding to a ubiquitin ligase. More generally …

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 …

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 …

Discovery of Potent SOS1 PROTACs with Effective Antitumor Activities against NCI-H358 Tumor Cells In Vitro/In Vivo

X Pang, D Cui, B Lv, CY Wang - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Directly targeted KRAS inhibitors are now facing resistance problems, which might be
partially solved by the combination of SOS1 inhibitors with KRAS inhibitors. However, this …

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 …

Direct degradation and stabilization of proteins: New horizons in treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Y Wang, J Zheng, Y Long, W Wu, Y Zhu - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is featured with excessive hepatic lipid
accumulation and its global prevalence is soaring. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the accuracy of permeability data to gain predictive power: assessing sources of variability in assays using cell monolayers

CL Pires, MJ Moreno - Membranes, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ability to predict the rate of permeation of new compounds across biological membranes
is of high importance for their success as drugs, as it determines their efficacy …