Targeted protein degradation: expanding the toolbox

M Schapira, MF Calabrese, AN Bullock… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) and related molecules that induce targeted
protein degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome system represent a new therapeutic …

PROTACs: an emerging therapeutic modality in precision medicine

DA Nalawansha, CM Crews - Cell chemical biology, 2020 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as an exciting new era in chemical
biology and drug discovery. PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC) technology targets …

[HTML][HTML] A potent and selective small-molecule degrader of STAT3 achieves complete tumor regression in vivo

L Bai, H Zhou, R Xu, Y Zhao, K Chinnaswamy… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is an attractive cancer therapeutic
target. Here we report the discovery of SD-36, a small-molecule degrader of STAT3. SD-36 …

Bromodomains: a new target class for drug development

AG Cochran, AR Conery, RJ Sims III - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Less than a decade ago, it was shown that bromodomains, acetyl lysine 'reader'modules
found in proteins with varied functions, were highly tractable small-molecule targets. This is …

Targeted protein degradation by electrophilic PROTACs that stereoselectively and site-specifically engage DCAF1

Y Tao, D Remillard, EV Vinogradova… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation induced by heterobifunctional compounds and molecular
glues presents an exciting avenue for chemical probe and drug discovery. To date, small …

Map** the degradable kinome provides a resource for expedited degrader development

KA Donovan, FM Ferguson, JW Bushman, NA Eleuteri… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) refers to the use of small molecules to induce ubiquitin-
dependent degradation of proteins. TPD is of interest in drug development, as it can address …

Discovery of ARD-69 as a highly potent proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) degrader of androgen receptor (AR) for the treatment of prostate cancer

X Han, C Wang, C Qin, W **ang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report herein the discovery of highly potent PROTAC degraders of androgen receptor
(AR), as exemplified by compound 34 (ARD-69). ARD-69 induces degradation of AR protein …

Electrophilic PROTACs that degrade nuclear proteins by engaging DCAF16

X Zhang, VM Crowley, TG Wucherpfennig… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Ligand-dependent protein degradation has emerged as a compelling strategy to
pharmacologically control the protein content of cells. So far, however, only a limited number …

Driving E3 ligase substrate specificity for targeted protein degradation: lessons from nature and the laboratory

AD Cowan, A Ciulli - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Methods to direct the degradation of protein targets with proximity-inducing molecules that
coopt the cellular degradation machinery are advancing in leaps and bounds, and diverse …

Differential PROTAC substrate specificity dictated by orientation of recruited E3 ligase

BE Smith, SL Wang, S Jaime-Figueroa, A Harbin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract PROteolysis-TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are hetero-bifunctional molecules
that recruit an E3 ubiquitin ligase to a given substrate protein resulting in its targeted …