Bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins: biological functions, diseases and targeted therapy

ZQ Wang, ZC Zhang, YY Wu, YN Pi, SH Lou… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
BET proteins, which influence gene expression and contribute to the development of cancer,
are epigenetic interpreters. Thus, BET inhibitors represent a novel form of epigenetic …

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 …

Drug discovery targeting bromodomain-containing protein 4

Z Liu, P Wang, H Chen, EA Wold, B Tian… - Journal of medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
BRD4, the most extensively studied member of the BET family, is an epigenetic regulator
that localizes to DNA via binding to acetylated histones and controls the expression of …

Clinical trials for BET inhibitors run ahead of the science

G Andrieu, AC Belkina, GV Denis - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2016 - Elsevier
Several cancer clinical trials for small molecule inhibitors of BET bromodomain proteins
have been initiated. There is enthusiasm for the anti-proliferative effect of inhibiting BRD4 …

Triazole-fused pyrimidines in target-based anticancer drug discovery

XJ Dai, LP Xue, SK Ji, Y Zhou, Y Gao, YC Zheng… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the development of targeted drugs has featured prominently in the
treatment of cancer, which is among the major causes of mortality globally. Triazole-fused …

Targeting Brd4 for cancer therapy: inhibitors and degraders

Y Duan, Y Guan, W Qin, X Zhai, B Yu, H Liu - Medchemcomm, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Bromodomain-containing protein 4 (Brd4) plays an important role in mediating the
expression of genes involved in cancers and non-cancer diseases such as inflammatory …

Discovery of N-Ethyl-4-[2-(4-fluoro-2,6-dimethyl-phenoxy)-5-(1-hydroxy-1-methyl-ethyl)phenyl]-6-methyl-7-oxo-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridine-2-carboxamide (ABBV-744) …

GS Sheppard, L Wang, SD Fidanze… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The BET family of proteins consists of BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and BRDt. Each protein contains
two distinct bromodomains (BD1 and BD2). BET family bromodomain inhibitors under …

1, 2, 4-Triazolo [1, 5-a] pyrimidines in drug design

K Oukoloff, B Lucero, KR Francisco, KR Brunden… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The 1, 2, 4-triazolo [1, 5-a] pyrimidine (TP) heterocycle, in spite of its relatively
simple structure, has proved to be remarkably versatile as evidenced by its use in many …

Targeting bromodomain-selective inhibitors of BET proteins in drug discovery and development

J Chen, P Tang, Y Wang, J Wang, C Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Blocking the interactions between bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins and
acetylated lysines of histones by small molecules has important implications for the …

[HTML][HTML] Bivalent ligands for protein degradation in drug discovery

M Scheepstra, KFW Hekking, L van Hijfte… - Computational and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Targeting the “undruggable” proteome remains one of the big challenges in drug discovery.
Recent innovations in the field of targeted protein degradation and manipulation of the …