Epigenetics-targeted drugs: Current paradigms and future challenges

W Dai, X Qiao, Y Fang, R Guo, P Bai, S Liu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetics governs a chromatin state regulatory system through five key mechanisms: DNA
modification, histone modification, RNA modification, chromatin remodeling, and non-coding …

Targeted Covalent Modification Strategies for Drugging the Undruggable Targets

T Tamura, M Kawano, I Hamachi - Chemical Reviews, 2025 - ACS Publications
The term “undruggable” refers to proteins or other biological targets that have been
historically challenging to target with conventional drugs or therapeutic strategies because …

Template-assisted covalent modification underlies activity of covalent molecular glues

YD Li, MW Ma, MM Hassan, M Hunkeler… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular glues are proximity-inducing small molecules that have emerged as an attractive
therapeutic approach. However, developing molecular glues remains challenging, requiring …

Alkylamine-tethered molecules recruit FBXO22 for targeted protein degradation

C Kagiou, JA Cisneros, J Farnung, J Liwocha… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) relies on small molecules to recruit proteins to E3
ligases to induce their ubiquitylation and degradation by the proteasome. Only a few of the …

Delineating cysteine-reactive compound modulation of cellular proteostasis processes

AR Julio, F Shikwana, C Truong, NR Burton… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Covalent modulators and covalent degrader molecules have emerged as drug modalities
with tremendous therapeutic potential. Toward realizing this potential, mass spectrometry …

Chemical specification of E3 ubiquitin ligase engagement by cysteine-reactive chemistry

RC Sarott, I You, YD Li, ST Toenjes… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation relies on small molecules that induce new protein–protein
interactions between targets and the cellular protein degradation machinery. Most of these …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Template-assisted covalent modification of DCAF16 underlies activity of BRD4 molecular glue degraders

YD Li, MW Ma, MM Hassan, M Hunkeler, M Teng… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Small molecules that induce protein-protein interactions to exert proximity-driven
pharmacology such as targeted protein degradation are a powerful class of therapeutics 1 …

Targeted Protein Degradation through Recruitment of the CUL4 Complex Adaptor Protein DDB1

M Meyers, S Cismoski, A Panidapu… - ACS chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation has arisen as a powerful therapeutic modality for eliminating
proteins. Thus far, most heterobifunctional proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have …

Structural and functional annotation of solute carrier transporters: implication for drug discovery

V Dvorak, G Superti-Furga - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Solute carriers (SLCs) represent the largest group of membrane
transporters in the human genome. They play a central role in controlling the …