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 …

Target identification of natural medicine with chemical proteomics approach: probe synthesis, target fishing and protein identification

X Chen, Y Wang, N Ma, J Tian, Y Shao, B Zhu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Natural products are an important source of new drugs for the treatment of various diseases.
However, developing natural product-based new medicines through random moiety …

Natural product-based proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs)

M Liu, AP Martyn, RJ Quinn - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: upto 2022 Natural products have an embedded recognition of protein surfaces.
They possess this property as they are produced by biosynthetic enzymes and are …

Natural product-inspired targeted protein degraders: advances and perspectives

J Li, Z Cai, XW Li, C Zhuang - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD), a promising therapeutic strategy in drug discovery, has
great potential to regulate the endogenous degradation of undruggable targets with small …

Currently available strategies for target identification of bioactive natural products

G Li, X Peng, Y Guo, S Gong, S Cao, F Qiu - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, biologically active natural products have gradually become important agents
in the field of drug research and development because of their wide availability and variety …

Quantitative proteomics analysis reveals proteins associated with high melatonin content in barley seeds under NaCl-induced salt stress

G Zhang, Y Yan, X Zeng, Y Wang… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Soil salinization limits hull-less barley cultivation in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China.
However, some wild hull-less barley seeds accumulate high melatonin (MEL) during …

Photoaffinity labelling with small molecules

RA Homan, JD Lapek, CM Woo, S Niessen… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Small molecules can serve as leads for new therapeutics as well as powerful tools to
investigate biological processes. Understanding the interactions of these molecules …

Development of natural product-based targeted protein degraders as anticancer agents

C Chen, Y Feng, C Zhou, Z Liu, Z Tang, Y Zhang… - Bioorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as a powerful approach for eliminating
cancer-causing proteins through an “event-driven” pharmacological mode. Proteolysis …

Dehydrocurvularin is a potent antineoplastic agent irreversibly blocking ATP-citrate lyase: evidence from chemoproteomics

Z Deng, NK Wong, Z Guo, K Zou, Y Xiao… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Dehydrocurvularin is a potent antineoplastic agent irreversibly blocking ATP-citrate lyase:
evidence from chemoproteomics - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C9CC00256A …

Pseudolaric acid B exhibits anti-cancer activity on human hepatocellular carcinoma through inhibition of multiple carcinogenic signaling pathways

H Zhang, J Li, H Luo, L Zhao, Z Zhang, X Shen - Phytomedicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Pseudolaric acid B (PAB), a diterpene acid isolated from the root bark
of Pseudolarix kaempferi, exhibits a potent anti-cancer activity in a variety of tumor cells …