Targeted protein degradation: from mechanisms to clinic

JM Tsai, RP Nowak, BL Ebert, ES Fischer - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation refers to the use of small molecules to induce the selective
degradation of proteins. In its most common form, this degradation is achieved through …

PROTACs: past, present and future

K Li, CM Crews - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules consisting of
one ligand that binds to a protein of interest (POI) and another that can recruit an E3 …

Cellular senescence: a key therapeutic target in aging and diseases

L Zhang, LE Pitcher, MJ Yousefzadeh… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - jci.org
Cellular senescence is a hallmark of aging defined by stable exit from the cell cycle in
response to cellular damage and stress. Senescent cells (SnCs) can develop a …

The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in drug discovery

F Meissner, J Geddes-McAlister, M Mann… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteins are the main targets of most drugs; however, system-wide methods to monitor
protein activity and function are still underused in drug discovery. Novel biochemical …

Chemistries of bifunctional PROTAC degraders

C Cao, M He, L Wang, Y He, Y Rao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a novel and promising therapeutic
strategy using small molecules to induce ubiquitin-dependent degradation of proteins. It has …

Targeted protein degradation: mechanisms, strategies and application

L Zhao, J Zhao, K Zhong, A Tong, D Jia - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Traditional drug discovery mainly focuses on direct regulation of protein activity. The
development and application of protein activity modulators, particularly inhibitors, has been …

Trends in kinase drug discovery: targets, indications and inhibitor design

MM Attwood, D Fabbro, AV Sokolov, S Knapp… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
The FDA approval of imatinib in 2001 was a breakthrough in molecularly targeted cancer
therapy and heralded the emergence of kinase inhibitors as a key drug class in the oncology …

Targeting cellular senescence with senotherapeutics: senolytics and senomorphics

L Zhang, LE Pitcher, V Prahalad… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of geroscience is that since ageing is the greatest risk factor for many diseases
and conditions, targeting the ageing process itself will have the greatest impact on human …

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 …