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ReviewCell chemical biology2020

PROTACs: An Emerging Therapeutic Modality in Precision Medicine.

Dhanusha A Nalawansha, Craig M Crews

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Review in Cell chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 231 papers.

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231citing papers in PubMed
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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

231 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A Relative Bioavailability Study of Vepdegestrant Tablets in Healthy Adult Participants.European journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics · 2026
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  3. MPS1 inhibition as an anticancer strategy: where do we stand?Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2026
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  4. E3 Ubiquitin Ligases in MASH-Associated Liver Fibrosis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  6. Generalizable Strategies for the Synthesis of Cereblon-Recruiting PROTAC Prodrugs.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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171 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

2 authors.

Dhanusha A NalawanshaDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Craig M CrewsDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: craig.crews@yale.edu.

Funding

Inducing Proximity: An Emerging Paradigm for New Therapeutic ModalitiesR35CA197589 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CRAIG M CREWS · 2015 to 2026
$10.7M
Developing Tumor-specific PROTACsR01CA238570 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CREWS, CRAIG M · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA238570NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197589
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as an exciting new era in chemical biology and drug discovery. PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC) technology targets cellular proteins for degradation by co-opting the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Over the last 5 years, numerous studies have expanded our understanding of the unique mode of action and advantages of PROTACs, which has in turn spurred interest in both academia and industry to explore PROTACs as a novel therapeutic strategy. In this review, we first highlight the key advantages of PROTACs and then discuss the spatiotemporal regulation of protein degradation. Next, we explore current chemically tractable E3 ligases focusing on expanding the existing repertoire with novel E3 ligases to uncover the full potential of TPD. Collectively, these studies are guiding the development of the PROTAC technology as it emerges as a new modality in precision medicine.

Indexed as

Precision MedicineProteolysisLigandsLightMolecular ProbesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsProtein IsoformsProteinsUbiquitinLigandsMolecular ProbesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProtein IsoformsProteinsUbiquitincovalent ligandsE3 ligasePhotoPROTACsPROTACsproteasometargeted protein degradation

Identifiers

PMID32795419
PMCPMC9424844

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