Targeted protein degradation: advances, challenges, and prospects for computational methods

B Mostofian, HJ Martin, A Razavi, S Patel… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The therapeutic approach of targeted protein degradation (TPD) is gaining momentum due
to its potentially superior effects compared with protein inhibition. Recent advancements in …

Targeted protein degradation: current and emerging approaches for E3 ligase deconvolution

Y Xiao, Y Yuan, Y Liu, Z Lin, G Zheng… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD), including the use of proteolysis-targeting chimeras
(PROTACs) and molecular glue degraders (MGDs) to degrade proteins, is an emerging …

Functional E3 ligase hotspots and resistance mechanisms to small-molecule degraders

A Hanzl, R Casement, H Imrichova, SJ Hughes… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is a novel pharmacology established by drugs that recruit
target proteins to E3 ubiquitin ligases. Based on the structure of the degrader and the target …

Mechanism of degrader-targeted protein ubiquitinability

C Crowe, MA Nakasone, S Chandler, C Craigon… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Small-molecule degraders of disease-driving proteins offer a clinically proven modality with
enhanced therapeutic efficacy and potential to tackle previously undrugged targets. Stable …

An efficient path classification algorithm based on variational autoencoder to identify metastable path channels for complex conformational changes

Y Qiu, MS O'Connor, M Xue, B Liu… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conformational changes (ie, dynamic transitions between pairs of conformational states)
play important roles in many chemical and biological processes. Constructing the Markov …

Benchmarking methods for PROTAC ternary complex structure prediction

E Rovers, M Schapira - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are bifunctional compounds that recruit an E3
ligase to a target protein to induce ubiquitination and degradation of the target. Rational …

The potential of cross-linking mass spectrometry in the development of protein–protein interaction modulators

M Ruwolt, I Piazza, F Liu - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) can provide a wealth of information on
endogenous protein–protein interaction (PPI) networks and protein binding interfaces …

Lysineless HiBiT and NanoLuc tagging systems as alternative tools for monitoring targeted protein degradation

H Lin, K Riching, MP Lai, D Lu, R Cheng… - ACS Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Target protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as a revolutionary approach in drug
discovery, leveraging the cell's intrinsic machinery to selectively degrade disease …

Biophysical and computational approaches to study ternary complexes: a 'cooperative relationship'to rationalize targeted protein degradation

JA Ward, C Perez‐Lopez, C Mayor‐Ruiz - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Degraders have illustrated that compound‐induced proximity to E3 ubiquitin ligases can
prompt the ubiquitination and degradation of disease‐relevant proteins. Hence, this …

Protein–protein interfaces in molecular glue-induced ternary complexes: classification, characterization, and prediction

H Rui, KS Ashton, J Min, C Wang, PR Potts - RSC Chemical Biology, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular glues are a class of small molecules that stabilize the interactions between
proteins. Naturally occurring molecular glues are present in many areas of biology where …