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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021

Phenyl-Glutarimides: Alternative Cereblon Binders for the Design of PROTACs.

Jaeki Min, Anand Mayasundari, Fatemeh Keramatnia, Barbara Jonchere, Seung Wook Yang, Jamie Jarusiewicz, Marisa Actis, Sourav Das, Brandon Young, Jake Slavish and 17 more

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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65 citing papers in PubMed, 145 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jaeki MinDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Anand MayasundariDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Fatemeh KeramatniaDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Barbara JonchereDepartment of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Seung Wook YangDepartment of Cell & Molecular Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Jamie JarusiewiczDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Marisa ActisDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Sourav DasDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Brandon YoungDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Jake SlavishDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Lei YangDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Yong LiDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Xiang FuDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Shalandus H GarrettDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Mi-Kyung YunDepartment of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Zhenmei LiDepartment of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Stanley NithiananthamDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Sergio ChaiDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Taosheng ChenDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Anang ShelatDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Richard E LeeDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Gisele NishiguchiDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Stephen W WhiteDepartment of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Martine F RousselDepartment of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Patrick Ryan PottsDepartment of Cell & Molecular Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Marcus FischerDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.
Zoran RankovicDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6866-4290
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · US

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI CHARLES ROBERTS · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
The DNA Damage Response and Tumorigenesis in the BrainP01CA096832 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI BAKER, SUZANNE J. · 2003 to 2025
$38.0M
Exploiting Water Network Perturbations in Protein Binding SitesR35GM142772 · NIGMS · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI FISCHER, MARCUS · 2021 to 2025
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA096832NCI NIH HHS P01 CA096832NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM142772NIH HHS 1R35GM142772-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeting cereblon (CRBN) is currently one of the most frequently reported proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) approaches, owing to favorable drug-like properties of CRBN ligands, immunomodulatory imide drugs (IMiDs). However, IMiDs are known to be inherently unstable, readily undergoing hydrolysis in body fluids. Here we show that IMiDs and IMiD-based PROTACs rapidly hydrolyze in commonly utilized cell media, which significantly affects their cell efficacy. We designed novel CRBN binders, phenyl glutarimide (PG) analogues, and showed that they retained affinity for CRBN with high ligand efficiency (LE >0.48) and displayed improved chemical stability. Our efforts led to the discovery of PG PROTAC 4 c (SJ995973), a uniquely potent degrader of bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) proteins that inhibited the viability of human acute myeloid leukemia MV4-11 cells at low picomolar concentrations (IC

Indexed as

Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingHumansHydrolysisPiperidonesProteolysisUbiquitin-Protein LigasesAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCRBN protein, humanglutarimidePiperidonesUbiquitin-Protein LigasescereblonIMiDPGphenyl glutarimidePROTAC

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PMID34614283
PMCPMC8648984
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