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 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 …

A selective BCL-XL PROTAC degrader achieves safe and potent antitumor activity

S Khan, X Zhang, D Lv, Q Zhang, Y He, P Zhang… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
B-cell lymphoma extra large (BCL-XL) is a well-validated cancer target. However, the on-
target and dose-limiting thrombocytopenia limits the use of BCL-XL inhibitors, such as …

Targeted protein degradation: elements of PROTAC design

SL Paiva, CM Crews - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Targeted protein degradation using Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) has
emerged as a novel therapeutic modality in drug discovery. PROTACs mediate the …

Bromodomains: a new target class for drug development

AG Cochran, AR Conery, RJ Sims III - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Less than a decade ago, it was shown that bromodomains, acetyl lysine 'reader'modules
found in proteins with varied functions, were highly tractable small-molecule targets. This is …

Recent developments in PROTAC‐mediated protein degradation: from bench to clinic

Z Hu, CM Crews - ChemBioChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Proteolysis‐targeting chimeras (PROTACs), an emerging paradigm‐shifting
technology, hijacks the ubiquitin‐proteasome system for targeted protein degradation …

PROTAC'ing oncoproteins: targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

JM Kelm, DS Pandey, E Malin, H Kansou, S Arora… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Molecularly targeted cancer therapies substantially improve patient outcomes, although the
durability of their effectiveness can be limited. Resistance to these therapies is often related …

Major advances in targeted protein degradation: PROTACs, LYTACs, and MADTACs

SB Alabi, CM Crews - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Of late, targeted protein degradation (TPD) has surfaced as a novel and innovative chemical
tool and therapeutic modality. By co-opting protein degradation pathways, TPD facilitates …

BET proteins as targets for anticancer treatment

A Stathis, F Bertoni - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) proteins are epigenetic readers that regulate
gene expression and are involved in cancer pathogenesis. Over the last years, several BET …

Protac-induced protein degradation in drug discovery: breaking the rules or just making new ones?

I Churcher - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation, using bifunctional small molecules (Protacs) to remove
specific proteins from within cells, has emerged as a novel drug discovery strategy with the …