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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2024

Extracellular targeted protein degradation: an emerging modality for drug discovery.

James A Wells, Kaan Kumru

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
87citing papers in PubMed
22.8field-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

87 citing papers in PubMed, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Supramolecular Degraders: An Emerging Paradigm in Targeted Protein Degradation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  16. Dynamic reprogramming of the tumor immune network via multicycle checkpoint degradation for cancer immunotherapy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  17. Induced proximity-based therapeutic modalities.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  19. Emerging biologic modalities for targeted protein degradation.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
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27 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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

James A WellsDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. jim.wells@ucsf.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8267-5519
Kaan KumruDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

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
New protein engineering-based tools and technologies for characterizing cell surface proteolysis in cancer cells for novel neo-epitope biomarkers and drug targetsR01CA248323 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JAMES A WELLS · 2020 to 2026
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA248323NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged in the past decade as a major new drug modality to remove intracellular proteins with bispecific small molecules that recruit the protein of interest (POI) to an E3 ligase for degradation in the proteasome. Unlike classic occupancy-based drugs, intracellular TPD (iTPD) eliminates the target and works catalytically, and so can be more effective and sustained, with lower dose requirements. Recently, this approach has been expanded to the extracellular proteome, including both secreted and membrane proteins. Extracellular targeted protein degradation (eTPD) uses bispecific antibodies, conjugates or small molecules to degrade extracellular POIs by trafficking them to the lysosome for degradation. Here, we focus on recent advances in eTPD, covering degrader systems, targets, molecular designs and parameters to advance them. Now almost any protein, intracellular or extracellular, is addressable in principle with TPD.

Indexed as

Membrane ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexDrug DiscoveryHumansProteolysisUbiquitin-Protein LigasesMembrane ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

Identifiers

PMID38062152
OpenAlexW4389454610

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