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 …

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 …

PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue

M Békés, DR Langley, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to
tackle disease-causing proteins that have historically been highly challenging to target with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Advances in targeting 'undruggable'transcription factors with small molecules

MJ Henley, AN Koehler - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer,
autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors …

Target and tissue selectivity of PROTAC degraders

RG Guenette, SW Yang, J Min, B Pei… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) strategies have revolutionized how scientists tackle
challenging protein targets deemed undruggable with traditional small molecule inhibitors …

Targeted protein degradation: expanding the toolbox

M Schapira, MF Calabrese, AN Bullock… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) and related molecules that induce targeted
protein degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome system represent a new therapeutic …

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 …