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 …

Advancing targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy

B Dale, M Cheng, KS Park, HÜ Kaniskan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The human proteome contains approximately 20,000 proteins, and it is estimated that more
than 600 of them are functionally important for various types of cancers, including nearly 400 …

Proximity-based modalities for biology and medicine

X Liu, A Ciulli - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular proximity orchestrates biological function, and blocking existing proximities is an
established therapeutic strategy. By contrast, strengthening or creating neoproximity with …

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 …

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 …

The PROTACtable genome

M Schneider, CJ Radoux, A Hercules… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are an emerging drug modality that may offer
new opportunities to circumvent some of the limitations associated with traditional small …

A selective and orally bioavailable VHL-recruiting PROTAC achieves SMARCA2 degradation in vivo

C Kofink, N Trainor, B Mair, S Wöhrle, M Wurm… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation offers an alternative modality to classical inhibition and holds
the promise of addressing previously undruggable targets to provide novel therapeutic …

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 …

Direct-to-biology accelerates PROTAC synthesis and the evaluation of linker effects on permeability and degradation

CE Hendrick, JR Jorgensen, C Chaudhry… - ACS medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A platform to accelerate optimization of proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) has been
developed using a direct-to-biology (D2B) approach with a focus on linker effects. A large …

Degrader-antibody conjugates

PS Dragovich - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Degrader-antibody conjugates (DACs) are novel entities that combine a proteolysis
targeting chimera (PROTAC) payload with a monoclonal antibody via some type of chemical …