Chasing molecular glue degraders: screening approaches

A Domostegui, L Nieto-Barrado… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) govern all biological processes. Some small molecules
modulate PPIs through induced protein proximity. In particular, molecular glue degraders …

PROTAC degraders as chemical probes for studying target biology and target validation

V Němec, MP Schwalm, S Müller… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Small molecule degraders such as PROTACs (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) have
emerged as new promising pharmacological modalities and the first PROTAC drug …

Drag-and-drop genome insertion of large sequences without double-strand DNA cleavage using CRISPR-directed integrases

MTN Yarnall, EI Ioannidi, C Schmitt-Ulms… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Programmable genome integration of large, diverse DNA cargo without DNA repair of
exposed DNA double-strand breaks remains an unsolved challenge in genome editing. We …

Platelet factors attenuate inflammation and rescue cognition in ageing

AB Schroer, PB Ventura, J Sucharov, R Misra… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Identifying therapeutics to delay, and potentially reverse, age-related cognitive decline is
critical in light of the increased incidence of dementia-related disorders forecasted in the …

Blood factors transfer beneficial effects of exercise on neurogenesis and cognition to the aged brain

AM Horowitz, X Fan, G Bieri, LK Smith… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Reversing brain aging may be possible through systemic interventions such as exercise. We
found that administration of circulating blood factors in plasma from exercised aged mice …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery and characterization of a selective IKZF2 glue degrader for cancer immunotherapy

S Bonazzi, E d'Hennezel, REJ Beckwith, L Xu… - Cell Chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Malignant tumors can evade destruction by the immune system by attracting immune-
suppressive regulatory T cells (Treg) cells. The IKZF2 (Helios) transcription factor plays a …

High‐efficiency prime editing enables new strategies for broad‐spectrum resistance to bacterial blight of rice

A Gupta, B Liu, QJ Chen, B Yang - Plant biotechnology journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Using genetic resistance against bacterial blight (BB) caused by Xanthomonas oryzae
pathovar oryzae (Xoo) is a major objective in rice breeding programmes. Prime editing (PE) …

Quantitative live-cell kinetic degradation and mechanistic profiling of PROTAC mode of action

KM Riching, S Mahan, CR Corona… - ACS chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A new generation of heterobifunctional small molecules, termed proteolysis targeting
chimeras (PROTACs), targets proteins for degradation through recruitment to E3 ligases and …

mTOR-mediated cancer drug resistance suppresses autophagy and generates a druggable metabolic vulnerability

N Gremke, P Polo, A Dort, J Schneikert… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer cells have a characteristic metabolism, mostly caused by alterations in signal
transduction networks rather than mutations in metabolic enzymes. For metabolic drugs to …

[HTML][HTML] Establishment of a reverse genetics system for SARS-CoV-2 using circular polymerase extension reaction

S Torii, C Ono, R Suzuki, Y Morioka, I Anzai, Y Fauzyah… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the
causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although multiple mutations have …