[PDF][PDF] Exploiting ubiquitin ligase cereblon as a target for small-molecule compounds in medicine and chemical biology

T Ito, Y Yamaguchi, H Handa - Cell Chemical Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Cereblon (CRBN), originally identified as a gene associated with intellectual disability, was
identified as primary target of thalidomide. Accumulating evidence has shown that CRBN is …

Molecular mechanisms of cereblon-based drugs

T Asatsuma-Okumura, T Ito, H Handa - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Thalidomide, well known for its potent teratogenicity, has been re-evaluated as a clinically
effective drug for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Although the direct target of thalidomide …

Cereblon: promise and challenges for combating human diseases

HK Kim, JE Seol, SW Ahn, S Jeon, CS Park… - Pflügers Archiv-European …, 2021 - Springer
Cereblon (CRBN) is a substrate recognition protein in the E3-ligase ubiquitin complex. The
binding target of CRBN varies according to tissues and cells, and the protein regulates …

Cereblon modulators: Low molecular weight inducers of protein degradation

PP Chamberlain, BE Cathers - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2019 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degradation has become an exciting new paradigm in drug discovery with
the potential to target new protein families for therapeutic intervention. In 2010, Hiroshi …

De-novo design of cereblon (CRBN) effectors guided by natural hydrolysis products of thalidomide derivatives

C Heim, D Pliatsika, F Mousavizadeh… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation via cereblon (CRBN), a substrate receptor of an E3 ubiquitin
ligase complex, is an increasingly important strategy in various clinical settings, in which the …

Discovery of CRBN as a target of thalidomide: a breakthrough for progress in the development of protein degraders

J Yamamoto, T Ito, Y Yamaguchi… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Progress in strategies aimed at breaking down therapeutic target proteins has led to a
paradigm shift in drug discovery. Thalidomide and its derivatives are the only protein …

A FRET-based assay for the identification and characterization of cereblon ligands

I Boichenko, S Deiss, K Bär… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Cereblon serves as an ubiquitin ligase substrate receptor that can be tuned toward different
target proteins by various cereblon-binding agents. This offers one of the most promising …

Ligands for cereblon: 2017–2021 patent overview

A Kazantsev, M Krasavin - Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Cereblon (CRBN), the substrate receptor of the CRL4CRBN E3 ubiquitin ligase
has been extensively studied due to its involvement in many biological processes. It has …

Ligand-mediated protein degradation reveals functional conservation among sequence variants of the CUL4-type E3 ligase substrate receptor cereblon

AA Akuffo, AY Alontaga, R Metcalf, MS Beatty… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
Upon binding to thalidomide and other immunomodulatory drugs, the E3 ligase substrate
receptor cereblon (CRBN) promotes proteosomal destruction by engaging the DDB1 …

Molecular glue CELMoD compounds are regulators of cereblon conformation

ER Watson, S Novick, ME Matyskiela, PP Chamberlain… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cereblon (CRBN) is a ubiquitin ligase (E3) substrate receptor protein co-opted by CRBN E3
ligase modulatory drug (CELMoD) agents that target therapeutically relevant proteins for …