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Development of targeted protein degradation therapeutics

Chamberlain, Philip P., Hamann, Lawrence G.·2019·Nature Chemical Biology

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation as a therapeutic modality has seen dramatic progress and massive investment in recent years because of the convergence of two key scientific breakthroughs: optimization of first-generation peptidic proteolysis-targeted chimeras (PROTACs) into more drug-like molecules able to support in vivo proof of concept and the discovery that clinical molecules function as degraders by binding and repurposing the proteins cereblon and DCAF15. This provided clinical validation for the general approach through the cereblon modulator class of drugs and provided highly drug-like and ligand-efficient E3 ligase binders upon which to tether target-binding moieties. Increasingly rational and systematic approaches including biophysical and structural studies on ternary complexes are being leveraged as the field advances. In this Perspective we summarize the discoveries that have laid the foundation for future degradation therapeutics, focusing on those classes of small molecules that redirect E3 ubiquitin ligases to non-native substrates.

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  • Molecular glues constitute another important therapeutic class of targeted protein degraders.

    “Molecular glues, based on the serendipitous discovery that thalidomide and its analogues act as degrader molecules, constitute another important therapeutic class1–8.”

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Authors
Chamberlain, P. P., & Hamann, L. G.
Corresponding author
Chamberlain, Philip P.
Venue
Nature Chemical Biology
Published
2019-09-16
Volume
15
Issue
10
Pages
937-944
ISSN
  • 1552-4450 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-4469
OpenAlex
W2974568688
Cited by
489
References
77
Citations by year
2026: 50 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 84 · 2023: 74 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 70 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 1
FWCI
4.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Chemical Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
Keywords
targeted protein degradation, PROTACs, DCAF15, protein degraders, ternary complex, ligand efficiency, drug repurposing, small molecule drugs
MeSH terms
Binding Sites, Humans, Protein Binding, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex, Small Molecule Libraries, Proteolysis

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