PROTACs: great opportunities for academia and industry (an update from 2020 to 2021)

M He, C Cao, Z Ni, Y Liu, P Song, S Hao, Y He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a new protein-
degradation strategy that has emerged in recent years. It uses bifunctional small molecules …

[HTML][HTML] CDK inhibitors in cancer therapy, an overview of recent development

M Zhang, L Zhang, R Hei, X Li, H Cai… - American journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dysregulated cell division, which leads to aberrant cell proliferation, is one of the key
hallmarks of cancer. Therefore, therapeutic targets that block cell division would be effective …

A proteome-wide atlas of drug mechanism of action

DC Mitchell, M Kuljanin, J Li, JG Van Vranken… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Defining the cellular response to pharmacological agents is critical for understanding the
mechanism of action of small molecule perturbagens. Here, we developed a 96-well-plate …

Rational discovery of molecular glue degraders via scalable chemical profiling

C Mayor-Ruiz, S Bauer, M Brand, Z Kozicka… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is a new therapeutic modality based on drugs that destabilize
proteins by inducing their proximity to E3 ubiquitin ligases. Of particular interest are …

Expanding chemical probe space: quality criteria for covalent and degrader probes

IV Hartung, J Rudolph, MM Mader… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Within druggable target space, new small-molecule modalities, particularly covalent
inhibitors and targeted degraders, have expanded the repertoire of medicinal chemists …

Kinase inhibitors: the road ahead

FM Ferguson, NS Gray - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathways have been successfully targeted to inhibit
proliferation and angiogenesis for cancer therapy. However, kinase deregulation has been …

The CDK inhibitor CR8 acts as a molecular glue degrader that depletes cyclin K

M Słabicki, Z Kozicka, G Petzold, YD Li, M Manojkumar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular glue compounds induce protein–protein interactions that, in the context of a
ubiquitin ligase, lead to protein degradation. Unlike traditional enzyme inhibitors, these …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional addiction in cancer

JE Bradner, D Hnisz, RA Young - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Cancer arises from genetic alterations that invariably lead to dysregulated transcriptional
programs. These dysregulated programs can cause cancer cells to become highly …

Pharmacological perturbation of CDK9 using selective CDK9 inhibition or degradation

CM Olson, B Jiang, MA Erb, Y Liang, ZM Doctor… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9), an important regulator of transcriptional
elongation, is a promising target for cancer therapy, particularly for cancers driven by …

Advances in covalent kinase inhibitors

A Abdeldayem, YS Raouf, SN Constantinescu… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, covalent kinase inhibitors (CKI) have seen a resurgence in drug
discovery. Covalency affords a unique set of advantages as well as challenges relative to …