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ArticleACS chemical biology2024

Targeted Protein Degradation through Recruitment of the CUL4 Complex Adaptor Protein DDB1.

Margot Meyers, Sabine Cismoski, Anoohya Panidapu, Barbara Chie-Leon, Daniel K Nomura

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Margot MeyersDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Sabine CismoskiDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Anoohya PanidapuDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Barbara Chie-LeonNovartis-Berkeley Translational Chemical Biology Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Daniel K NomuraDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1614-8360
Innovative Genomics Institute · USNovartis (United States) · US

Funding

Tackling Undruggable Cancer Targets using Chemoproteomic PlatformsR35CA263814 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Daniel Nomura · 2022 to 2026
$4.6M
Harnessing E3 Ligases for Cancer TherapyR01CA240981 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Daniel Nomura · 2019 to 2026
$4.3M
Acquisition of a Cryoprobe and Related Accessories for a 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer to Support Health Research Activities at the University of California, BerkeleyS10OD024998 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI HARTWIG, JOHN F · 2018 to 2018
$265k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240981NCI NIH HHS R35 CA263814NIH HHS S10 OD024998
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation has arisen as a powerful therapeutic modality for eliminating proteins. Thus far, most heterobifunctional proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have utilized recruiters against substrate receptors of Cullin RING E3 ubiquitin ligases, such as cereblon and VHL. However, previous studies have surprisingly uncovered molecular glue degraders that exploit a CUL4 adaptor protein DDB1 to degrade neosubstrate proteins. Here, we sought to investigate whether DDB1 recruiters can be discovered that can be exploited for PROTAC applications. We utilized activity-based protein profiling and cysteine chemoproteomic screening to identify a covalent recruiter that targets C173 on DDB1 and exploited this recruiter to develop PROTACs against BRD4 and androgen receptor (AR). We demonstrated that the BRD4 PROTAC results in selective degradation of the short BRD4 isoform over the long isoform in a proteasome, NEDDylation, and DDB1-dependent manner. We also demonstrated degradation of AR with the AR PROTAC in prostate cancer cells. Our study demonstrated that covalent chemoproteomic approaches can be used to discover recruiters against Cullin RING adapter proteins and that these recruiters can be used for PROTAC applications to degrade neo-substrates.

Indexed as

Cullin ProteinsTranscription FactorsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingNuclear ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProtein IsoformsProteolysisUbiquitin-Protein LigasesAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCullin ProteinsNuclear ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProtein IsoformsTranscription FactorsUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID38192078
PMCPMC11003717
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