[HTML][HTML] Advances in covalent drug discovery

L Boike, NJ Henning, DK Nomura - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent drugs have been used to treat diseases for more than a century, but tools that
facilitate the rational design of covalent drugs have emerged more recently. The purposeful …

Fragment-to-lead medicinal chemistry publications in 2020

IJP De Esch, DA Erlanson, W Jahnke… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) continues to evolve and make an impact in the
pharmaceutical sciences. We summarize successful fragment-to-lead studies that were …

[HTML][HTML] Fragment-based covalent ligand discovery

W Lu, M Kostic, T Zhang, J Che, MP Patricelli… - RSC chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted covalent inhibitors have regained widespread attention in drug discovery and have
emerged as powerful tools for basic biomedical research. Fueled by considerable …

Reversible dual-covalent molecular locking of the 14-3-3/ERRγ protein–protein interaction as a molecular glue drug discovery approach

BA Somsen, RJC Schellekens… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecules that stabilize protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are invaluable as tool
compounds for biophysics and (structural) biology, and as starting points for molecular glue …

Molecular glue discovery: current and future approaches

JA Dewey, C Delalande, SA Azizi, V Lu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The intracellular interactions of biomolecules can be maneuvered to redirect signaling,
reprogram the cell cycle, or decrease infectivity using only a few dozen atoms. Such …

What makes a good protein–protein interaction stabilizer: Analysis and application of the dual-binding mechanism

SY Chen, M Zacharias - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are essential for biological processes including immune
reactions and diseases. Inhibition of PPIs by drug-like compounds is a common basis for …

On the specificity of protein–protein interactions in the context of disorder

K Teilum, JG Olsen, BB Kragelund - Biochemical Journal, 2021 - portlandpress.com
With the increased focus on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and their large
interactomes, the question about their specificity—or more so on their multispecificity—arise …

[HTML][HTML] Protein–protein interactions: developing small-molecule inhibitors/stabilizers through covalent strategies

B Lucero, KR Francisco, LJ Liu, CR Caffrey… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
The development of small-molecule inhibitors or stabilizers of selected protein–protein
interactions (PPIs) of interest holds considerable promise for the development of research …

Emerging and Re-emerging Warheads for Targeted Covalent Inhibitors: An Update

L Hillebrand, XJ Liang, RAM Serafim… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent inhibitors and other types of covalent modalities have seen a revival in the past two
decades, with a variety of new targeted covalent drugs having been approved in recent …

[HTML][HTML] Clues to molecular glues

TM Geiger, SC Schäfer, JK Dreizler, M Walz… - Current Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular Glues, here defined as small molecules that interact with two protein surfaces to
induce or enhance affinity of these two proteins to each other, have received substantial …