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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2019

De-Novo Design of Cereblon (CRBN) Effectors Guided by Natural Hydrolysis Products of Thalidomide Derivatives.

Christopher Heim, Dimanthi Pliatsika, Farnoush Mousavizadeh, Kerstin Bär, Birte Hernandez Alvarez, Athanassios Giannis, Marcus D Hartmann

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Replacing the phthalimide core in thalidomide with benzotriazole.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2022
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7 authors.

Christopher HeimDepartment of Protein Evolution , Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology , Max-Planck-Ring 5 , 72076 Tübingen , Germany.
Dimanthi PliatsikaFaculty for Chemistry und Mineralogy, Institute of Organic Chemistry , University of Leipzig , Johannisallee 29 , 04103 Leipzig , Germany.
Farnoush MousavizadehFaculty for Chemistry und Mineralogy, Institute of Organic Chemistry , University of Leipzig , Johannisallee 29 , 04103 Leipzig , Germany.
Kerstin BärDepartment of Protein Evolution , Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology , Max-Planck-Ring 5 , 72076 Tübingen , Germany.
Birte Hernandez AlvarezDepartment of Protein Evolution , Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology , Max-Planck-Ring 5 , 72076 Tübingen , Germany.
Athanassios GiannisFaculty for Chemistry und Mineralogy, Institute of Organic Chemistry , University of Leipzig , Johannisallee 29 , 04103 Leipzig , Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2203-0959
Marcus D HartmannDepartment of Protein Evolution , Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology , Max-Planck-Ring 5 , 72076 Tübingen , Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6937-5677

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Abstract

Targeted protein degradation via cereblon (CRBN), a substrate receptor of an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, is an increasingly important strategy in various clinical settings, in which the substrate specificity of CRBN is altered via the binding of small-molecule effectors. To date, such effectors are derived from thalidomide and confer a broad substrate spectrum that is far from being fully characterized. Here, we employed a rational and modular approach to design novel and minimalistic CRBN effectors. In this approach, we took advantage of the binding modes of hydrolyzed metabolites of several thalidomide-derived effectors, which we elucidated via crystallography. These yielded key insights for the optimization of the minimal core binding moiety and its linkage to a chemical moiety that imparts substrate specificity. Based on this scaffold, we present a first active de-novo CRBN effector that is able to degrade the neo-substrate IKZF3 in the cell culture.

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Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell LineDrug DesignHumansHydrolysisIkaros Transcription FactorMolecular Docking SimulationProteolysisThalidomideUbiquitin-Protein LigasesAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCRBN protein, humanIkaros Transcription FactorIKZF3 protein, humanThalidomideUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID31251063
PMCPMC6750895

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