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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Development of Antibody-Based PROTACs for the Degradation of the Cell-Surface Immune Checkpoint Protein PD-L1.

Adam D Cotton, Duy P Nguyen, Josef A Gramespacher, Ian B Seiple, James A Wells

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 232 papers.

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232citing papers in PubMed
25.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

232 citing papers in PubMed, 479 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. A Plug-and-Play Platform for Customizing Multivalent Degraders and Degrader-Drug Conjugates.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  20. Coacervate-Mediated Lysosome-Targeting Antibody Delivery for Protein Degradation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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172 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam D CottonDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6988-1569
Duy P NguyenDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.
Josef A GramespacherDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.
Ian B SeipleDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8732-1362
James A WellsDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8267-5519
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Renewable antibodies to secreted proteins and single and multi-pass cell surfaceP41CA196276 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CRAIK, CHARLES SCOTT · 2014 to 2018
$5.8M
Surfaceomic technologies and antibodies to probe cell surface proteomes and their interactomes at unprecedented small scale and high-resolutionR35GM122451 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JAMES A WELLS · 2017 to 2026
$5.3M
NCI NIH HHS P41 CA196276NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation has emerged as a new paradigm to manipulate cellular proteostasis. Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are bifunctional small molecules that recruit an E3 ligase to a target protein of interest, promoting its ubiquitination and subsequent degradation. Here, we report the development of antibody-based PROTACs (AbTACs), fully recombinant bispecific antibodies that recruit membrane-bound E3 ligases for the degradation of cell-surface proteins. We show that an AbTAC can induce the lysosomal degradation of programmed death-ligand 1 by recruitment of the membrane-bound E3 ligase RNF43. AbTACs represent a new archetype within the PROTAC field to target cell-surface proteins with fully recombinant biological molecules.

Indexed as

AntibodiesB7-H1 AntigenHumansProteolysisAntibodiesB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID33395526
PMCPMC8154509
OpenAlexW3120553915

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