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ReviewCell biochemistry and function2019

The PROTAC technology in drug development.

Yutian Zou, Danhui Ma, Yinyin Wang

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Review in Cell biochemistry and function, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers.

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129 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yutian ZouThe State Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Department of Basic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Danhui MaThe State Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Department of Basic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yinyin WangThe State Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Department of Basic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1285-0507

Funding

Chinese National Major Scientific Research Program 2016YFA0500301National Natural Science Foundation of China 81572729National Natural Science Foundation of China 81830092National Natural Science Foundation of China 81872244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, a new technology termed PROTAC, proteolysis targeting chimera, has been developed for inducing the protein degradation by a targeting molecule. This technology takes advantage of a moiety of targeted protein and a moiety of recognizing E3 ubiquitin ligase and produces a hybrid molecule to specifically knock down a targeted protein. During the first decade, three pedigreed groups worked on the development of this technology. To date, this technology has been extended by different groups, aiming to develop new drugs against different diseases including cancers. This review summarizes the contributions of the groups for the development of PROTAC. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY: This review summarized the development of the PROTAC technology for readers and also presented the author's opinions on the application of the technology in tumor therapy.

Indexed as

ProteolysisUbiquitinationDrug DevelopmentHumansProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexRecombinant Fusion ProteinsUbiquitin-Protein LigasesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexRecombinant Fusion ProteinsUbiquitin-Protein Ligasescancerdrug developmentPROTACprotein degradationsmall molecule

Identifiers

PMID30604499
PMCPMC6590639

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