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 …

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 …

Discovery of small molecule ligands for the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 ligase and their use as inhibitors and PROTAC degraders

CJ Diehl, A Ciulli - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Cullin RING E3 ligase is an essential enzyme in the ubiquitin-
proteasome system that recruits substrates such as the hypoxia inducible factor for …

The SWI/SNF complex in cancer—biology, biomarkers and therapy

P Mittal, CWM Roberts - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer genome-sequencing studies have revealed a remarkably high prevalence of
mutations in genes encoding subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodelling complexes …

Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes: emerging mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

RC Centore, GJ Sandoval, LMM Soares, C Kadoch… - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Small molecule-based targeting of chromatin regulatory factors has emerged as a promising
therapeutic strategy in recent years. The development and ongoing clinical evaluation of …

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 …

Sarcoma treatment in the era of molecular medicine

TGP Grünewald, M Alonso, S Avnet… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Sarcomas are heterogeneous and clinically challenging soft tissue and bone cancers.
Although constituting only 1% of all human malignancies, sarcomas represent the second …

DCAF1-based PROTACs with activity against clinically validated targets overcoming intrinsic-and acquired-degrader resistance

M Schröder, M Renatus, X Liang, F Meili… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) mediates protein level through small molecule induced
redirection of E3 ligases to ubiquitinate neo-substrates and mark them for proteasomal …

Spliceosomal disruption of the non-canonical BAF complex in cancer

D Inoue, GL Chew, B Liu, BC Michel, J Pangallo… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
SF3B1 is the most commonly mutated RNA splicing factor in cancer,,–, but the mechanisms
by which SF3B1 mutations promote malignancy are poorly understood. Here we integrated …

Chromatin regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities in cancer

AM Valencia, C Kadoch - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Research over the past several decades has unmasked a major contribution of disrupted
chromatin regulatory processes to human disease, particularly cancer. Advances in genome …