PROTACs: past, present and future

K Li, CM Crews - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules consisting of
one ligand that binds to a protein of interest (POI) and another that can recruit an E3 …

Synthesis, assembly, and applications of hybrid nanostructures for biosensing

S Zhang, R Geryak, J Geldmeier, S Kim… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

Inhibition of RAS function through targeting an allosteric regulatory site

R Spencer-Smith, A Koide, Y Zhou, RR Eguchi… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
RAS GTPases are important mediators of oncogenesis in humans. However,
pharmacological inhibition of RAS has proved challenging. Here we describe a functionally …

Strategies targeting protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 for cancer therapy

Y Song, S Wang, M Zhao, X Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 encoded by PTPN11 is a promising therapeutic
target for cancer therapy, while the multifaceted roles of SHP2 complicate the drug discovery …

Affimer proteins are versatile and renewable affinity reagents

C Tiede, R Bedford, SJ Heseltine, G Smith, I Wijetunga… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Molecular recognition reagents are key tools for understanding biological processes and are
used universally by scientists to study protein expression, localisation and interactions …

Functions of Shp2 in cancer

J Zhang, F Zhang, R Niu - Journal of cellular and molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Diagnostics and therapies have shown evident advances. Tumour surgery, chemotherapy
and radiotherapy are the main techniques in treat cancers. Targeted therapy and drug …

Inhibition of SHP2-mediated dephosphorylation of Ras suppresses oncogenesis

S Bunda, K Burrell, P Heir, L Zeng… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Ras is phosphorylated on a conserved tyrosine at position 32 within the switch I region via
Src kinase. This phosphorylation inhibits the binding of effector Raf while promoting the …

Nanobodies and recombinant binders in cell biology

J Helma, MC Cardoso, S Muyldermans… - Journal of Cell …, 2015 - rupress.org
Antibodies are key reagents to investigate cellular processes. The development of
recombinant antibodies and binders derived from natural protein scaffolds has expanded …

Structures of a FtsZ single protofilament and a double-helical tube in complex with a monobody

J Fujita, H Amesaka, T Yoshizawa, K Hibino… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
FtsZ polymerizes into protofilaments to form the Z-ring that acts as a scaffold for accessory
proteins during cell division. Structures of FtsZ have been previously solved, but detailed …

Conformational interconversion of MLKL and disengagement from RIPK3 precede cell death by necroptosis

SE Garnish, Y Meng, A Koide, JJ Sandow… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Phosphorylation of the MLKL pseudokinase by the RIPK3 kinase leads to MLKL
oligomerization, translocation to, and permeabilization of, the plasma membrane to induce …