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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2020

Emerging New Concepts of Degrader Technologies.

Yu Ding, Yiyan Fei, Boxun Lu

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
76citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Coacervate-Mediated Lysosome-Targeting Antibody Delivery for Protein Degradation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. BBB-Permeable PROTACs: Where Do We Stand?ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2026
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  10. SonoPIN enables precise, noninvasive, and efficient intracellular delivery of PROTACs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  15. A Complete Mechanistic Framework for Molecular Glue Characterization.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  17. Targeted Degradation Technologies Utilizing Autophagy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yu DingNeurology Department at Huashan Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, and Ministry of Education Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: yuding@fudan.edu.cn.
Yiyan FeiDepartment of Optical Science and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultra-Precision Optical Manufacturing, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: fyy@fudan.edu.cn.
Boxun LuNeurology Department at Huashan Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, and Ministry of Education Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: luboxun@fudan.edu.cn.
Fudan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional drug discovery focuses on identifying direct inhibitors of target proteins. This typically relies on a measurable biochemical readout and accessible binding sites whose occupancy influences the function of the target protein. These requirements preclude many disease-causing proteins from being 'druggable' targets, and these proteins are categorized as 'undruggable'. The proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology provides powerful tools to degrade these undruggable targets and has become a promising approach for drug discovery. However, the PROTAC technology has some limitations, and emerging new degrader technologies may greatly broaden the spectrum of targets that could be selectively degraded by harnessing a second major degradation pathway in cells. We review key emerging technologies that exploit the lysosomal degradation pathway and discuss their potential applications and limitations.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryProteinsHumansProteolysisTechnologyProteinsATTECAUTACLYTACPROTACprotein degradationundruggable targets

Identifiers

PMID32416934
PMCPMC7177145
OpenAlexW3017485915

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.