Molecular glues for targeted protein degradation: from serendipity to rational discovery

G Dong, Y Ding, S He, C Sheng - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation is a promising area in the discovery and development of
innovative therapeutics. Molecular glues mediate proximity-induced protein degradation and …

Protein kinases: drug targets for immunological disorders

L Castelo-Soccio, H Kim, M Gadina… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Protein kinases play a major role in cellular activation processes, including signal
transduction by diverse immunoreceptors. Given their roles in cell growth and death and in …

Late-stage diversification of natural products

B Hong, T Luo, X Lei - ACS central science, 2020 - ACS Publications
Late-stage diversification of natural products is an efficient way to generate natural product
derivatives for drug discovery and chemical biology. Benefiting from the development of site …

Multispecific drugs herald a new era of biopharmaceutical innovation

RJ Deshaies - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The modern biopharmaceutical industry traces its roots to the dawn of the twentieth century,
coincident with marketing of aspirin—a signature event in the history of modern drug …

Structural basis of lenalidomide-induced CK1α degradation by the CRL4CRBN ubiquitin ligase

G Petzold, ES Fischer, NH Thomä - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Thalidomide and its derivatives, lenalidomide and pomalidomide, are immune modulatory
drugs (IMiDs) used in the treatment of haematologic malignancies,. IMiDs bind CRBN, the …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular glues for protein-protein interactions: Progressing toward a new dream

M Konstantinidou, MR Arkin - Cell Chemical Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The modulation of protein-protein interactions with small molecules is one of the most
rapidly develo** areas in drug discovery. In this review, we discuss advances over the …

Modulators of protein–protein interactions

LG Milroy, TN Grossmann, S Hennig… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Since Hedin's characterization of trypsin and antitrypsin in 1906,(1) arguably the first
account of a regulatory protein–protein interaction (PPI), contemporary understanding of …

Nucleases: diversity of structure, function and mechanism

W Yang - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Nucleases cleave the phosphodiester bonds of nucleic acids and may be endo or exo,
DNase or RNase, topoisomerases, recombinases, ribozymes, or RNA splicing enzymes. In …

[HTML][HTML] Serine/threonine phosphatases: mechanism through structure

Y Shi - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
The reversible phosphorylation of proteins is accomplished by opposing activities of kinases
and phosphatases. Relatively few protein serine/threonine phosphatases (PSPs) control the …

Calcineurin: form and function

F Rusnak, P Mertz - Physiological reviews, 2000 - journals.physiology.org
Calcineurin is a eukaryotic Ca2+-and calmodulin-dependent serine/threonine protein
phosphatase. It is a heterodimeric protein consisting of a catalytic subunit calcineurin A …