The dawn of a new era: targeting the “undruggables” with antibody-based therapeutics

L Qian, X Lin, X Gao, RU Khan, JY Liao, S Du… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The high selectivity and affinity of antibodies toward their antigens have made them a highly
valuable tool in disease therapy, diagnosis, and basic research. A plethora of chemical and …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) come of age: entering the third decade of targeted protein degradation

MJ Bond, CM Crews - RSC chemical biology, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the discovery of PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) twenty years ago,
targeted protein degradation (TPD) has changed the landscape of drug development …

Delivering on the promise of protein degraders

MN O'Brien Laramy, S Luthra, MF Brown… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past 3 years, the first bivalent protein degraders intentionally designed for targeted
protein degradation (TPD) have advanced to clinical trials, with an initial focus on …

A potent KRAS macromolecule degrader specifically targeting tumours with mutant KRAS

N Bery, A Miller, T Rabbitts - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Tumour-associated KRAS mutations are the most prevalent in the three RAS-family isoforms
and involve many different amino-acids. Therefore, molecules able to interfere with mutant …

Selective and noncovalent targeting of RAS mutants for inhibition and degradation

KW Teng, ST Tsai, T Hattori, C Fedele, A Koide… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Activating mutants of RAS are commonly found in human cancers, but to date selective
targeting of RAS in the clinic has been limited to KRAS (G12C) through covalent inhibitors …

[HTML][HTML] Proteomic approaches advancing targeted protein degradation

G Sathe, GP Sapkota - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging modality for research and therapeutics.
Most TPD approaches harness cellular ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathways …

Targeting KRAS in Cancer: Promising Therapeutic Strategies

LM Mustachio, A Chelariu-Raicu, L Szekvolgyi… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Since the Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) is mutated
in about 25% of all human cancers and is at the center of pathways involved in …

Exquisitely specific anti-KRAS biodegraders inform on the cellular prevalence of nucleotide-loaded states

S Lim, R Khoo, YC Juang, P Gopal, H Zhang… - ACS central …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Mutations to RAS proteins (H-, N-, and K-RAS) are among the most common oncogenic
drivers, and tumors harboring these lesions are some of the most difficult to treat. Although …

Progress in RAS‐targeted therapeutic strategies: From small molecule inhibitors to proteolysis targeting chimeras

X Lu, J Jin, Y Wu, X Liu, X Liang, J Lin… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a widely considerable target in chemical biology and pharmacological research, rat
sarcoma (RAS) gene mutations play a critical driving factor in several fatal cancers. Despite …