PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue

M Békés, DR Langley, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to
tackle disease-causing proteins that have historically been highly challenging to target with …

Targeting cancer metabolism in the era of precision oncology

ZE Stine, ZT Schug, JM Salvino, CV Dang - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
One hundred years have passed since Warburg discovered alterations in cancer
metabolism, more than 70 years since Sidney Farber introduced anti-folates that …

PROTACs: great opportunities for academia and industry (an update from 2020 to 2021)

M He, C Cao, Z Ni, Y Liu, P Song, S Hao, Y He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a new protein-
degradation strategy that has emerged in recent years. It uses bifunctional small molecules …

Advancing targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

B Dale, M Cheng, KS Park, HÜ Kaniskan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The human proteome contains approximately 20,000 proteins, and it is estimated that more
than 600 of them are functionally important for various types of cancers, including nearly 400 …

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) in cancer therapy

X Li, W Pu, Q Zheng, M Ai, S Chen, Y Peng - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are engineered techniques for targeted protein
degradation. A bifunctional PROTAC molecule with two covalently-linked ligands recruits …

The PROTACtable genome

M Schneider, CJ Radoux, A Hercules… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are an emerging drug modality that may offer
new opportunities to circumvent some of the limitations associated with traditional small …

Trivalent PROTACs enhance protein degradation via combined avidity and cooperativity

S Imaide, KM Riching, N Makukhin, V Vetma… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Bivalent proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) drive protein degradation by
simultaneously binding a target protein and an E3 ligase and forming a productive ternary …

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 …

E3 ligase ligands for PROTACs: how they were found and how to discover new ones

T Ishida, A Ciulli - … Advancing the Science of Drug Discovery, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Bifunctional degrader molecules, also called proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), are
a new modality of chemical tools and potential therapeutics to understand and treat human …

Targeted protein degradation: A promise for undruggable proteins

KTG Samarasinghe, CM Crews - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Protein homeostasis, or" proteostasis," is indispensable for a balanced, healthy
environment within the cell. However, when natural proteostasis mechanisms are …