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 …

Protein degraders enter the clinic—a new approach to cancer therapy

D Chirnomas, KR Hornberger, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Heterobifunctional protein degraders, such as PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC)
protein degraders, constitute a novel therapeutic modality that harnesses the cell's natural …

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 …

Kinase drug discovery 20 years after imatinib: progress and future directions

P Cohen, D Cross, PA Jänne - Nature reviews drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Protein kinases regulate nearly all aspects of cell life, and alterations in their expression, or
mutations in their genes, cause cancer and other diseases. Here, we review the remarkable …

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 …

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 …

Challenges and opportunities in cancer drug resistance

RA Ward, S Fawell, N Floc'h, V Flemington… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
There has been huge progress in the discovery of targeted cancer therapies in recent years.
However, even for the most successful and impactful cancer drugs which have been …

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 …

PROTAC: an effective targeted protein degradation strategy for cancer therapy

SM Qi, J Dong, ZY Xu, XD Cheng, WD Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) technology is an effective endogenous protein
degradation tool developed in recent years that can ubiquitinate the target proteins through …

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras as therapeutics and tools for biological discovery

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
New biological tools provide new techniques to probe fundamental biological processes.
Here we describe the burgeoning field of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which …