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ReviewJournal of medicinal chemistry2023

Expanding Chemical Probe Space: Quality Criteria for Covalent and Degrader Probes.

Ingo V Hartung, Joachim Rudolph, Mary M Mader, Monique P C Mulder, Paul Workman

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Review in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ingo V HartungMedicinal Chemistry, Global Research & Development, Merck Healthcare KGaA, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8750-679X
Joachim RudolphDiscovery Chemistry, Genentech, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0806-6106
Mary M MaderMolecular Innovation, Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana 64202, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8832-7187
Monique P C MulderDepartment of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5386-7132
Paul WorkmanCentre for Cancer Drug Discovery, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, Sutton SM2 5NG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1659-3034

Funding

Cancer Research UK 22897Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Within druggable target space, new small-molecule modalities, particularly covalent inhibitors and targeted degraders, have expanded the repertoire of medicinal chemists. Molecules with such modes of action have a large potential not only as drugs but also as chemical probes. Criteria have previously been established to describe the potency, selectivity, and properties of small-molecule probes that are qualified to enable the interrogation and validation of drug targets. These definitions have been tailored to reversibly acting modulators but fall short in their applicability to other modalities. While initial guidelines have been proposed, we delineate here a full set of criteria for the characterization of covalent, irreversible inhibitors as well as heterobifunctional degraders ("proteolysis-targeting chimeras", or PROTACs) and molecular glue degraders. We propose modified potency and selectivity criteria compared to those for reversible inhibitors. We discuss their relevance and highlight examples of suitable probe and pathfinder compounds.

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PMID37403870
PMCPMC10388296

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