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 …

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 …

Semiconducting polymer nano-PROTACs for activatable photo-immunometabolic cancer therapy

C Zhang, Z Zeng, D Cui, S He, Y Jiang, J Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunometabolic intervention has been applied to treat cancer via inhibition of certain
enzymes associated with intratumoral metabolism. However, small-molecule inhibitors and …

Targeting biomolecular condensation and protein aggregation against cancer

JL Silva, D Foguel, VF Ferreira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less entities arising from liquid–liquid phase
separation, hold dichotomous roles in health and disease. Alongside their physiological …

[HTML][HTML] PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs)—past, present and future

M Pettersson, CM Crews - Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 2019 - Elsevier
The majority of currently used therapeutics are small molecule-based and utilize occupancy-
driven pharmacology as the mode of action (MOA), in which the protein function is …

Kinase inhibitors: the road ahead

FM Ferguson, NS Gray - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathways have been successfully targeted to inhibit
proliferation and angiogenesis for cancer therapy. However, kinase deregulation has been …

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 …

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 …

The advantages of targeted protein degradation over inhibition: an RTK case study

GM Burslem, BE Smith, AC Lai, S Jaime-Figueroa… - Cell chemical …, 2018 - cell.com
Proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology has emerged over the last two decades
as a powerful tool for targeted degradation of endogenous proteins. Herein we describe the …

Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) come of age: entering the third decade of targeted protein degradation

MJ Bond, CM Crews - RSC chemical biology, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the discovery of PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) twenty years ago,
targeted protein degradation (TPD) has changed the landscape of drug development …