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 …

Induced protein degradation: an emerging drug discovery paradigm

AC Lai, CM Crews - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Small-molecule drug discovery has traditionally focused on occupancy of a binding site that
directly affects protein function, and this approach typically precludes targeting proteins that …

Emerging mechanisms of resistance to androgen receptor inhibitors in prostate cancer

PA Watson, VK Arora, CL Sawyers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
During the past 10 years, preclinical studies implicating sustained androgen receptor (AR)
signalling as the primary driver of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have led to …

Impact of a five-dimensional framework on R&D productivity at AstraZeneca

P Morgan, DG Brown, S Lennard… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
In 2011, AstraZeneca embarked on a major revision of its research and development (R&D)
strategy with the aim of improving R&D productivity, which was below industry averages in …

Small-molecule modulation of protein homeostasis

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Control of protein levels by nucleic-acid-based technologies has proven to be a useful
research tool but lacks the advantages of small molecules with respect to cell permeability …

Androgen receptor signaling in the development of castration-resistant prostate cancer

Q Feng, B He - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Most prostate cancers are androgen-sensitive malignancies whose growths depend on the
transcriptional activity of the androgen receptor (AR). In the 1940s, Charles Huggins …

Targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in castration-resistant prostate cancer

RL Bitting, AJ Armstrong - Endocrine-related cancer, 2013 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Prostate and breast cancer are the two cancers with the highest incidence in men and
women, respectively. Here, we focus on the known biology of acquired resistance to …

Nuclear receptors: recent drug discovery for cancer therapies

L Zhao, S Zhou, JÅ Gustafsson - Endocrine reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Nuclear receptors (NRs) are transcription factors actively involved in many aspects of human
physiology and pathology, serving as sensors of stimuli, master regulators of downstream …

Journey of Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 ligase in PROTACs design: From VHL ligands to VHL-based degraders

N Setia, HTA Almuqdadi, M Abid - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The scientific community has shown considerable interest in proteolysis-targeting chimeras
(PROTACs) in the last decade, indicating their remarkable potential as a means of achieving …

CBP/p300: critical co-activators for nuclear steroid hormone receptors and emerging therapeutic targets in prostate and breast cancers

AR Waddell, H Huang, D Liao - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The CREB-binding protein (CBP) and p300 are paralogous lysine
acetyltransferases that serve as critical co-activators for transcription factors involved in …