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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Orally Bioavailable Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras: An Innovative Approach in the Golden Era of Discovering Small-Molecule Cancer Drugs.

Rohan Kalyan Rej, Srinivasa Rao Allu, Joyeeta Roy, Ranjan Kumar Acharyya, I N Chaithanya Kiran, Yesu Addepalli, V Dhamodharan

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. PROTACs in cancer therapy: targeted degradation of GPX4, PARP and epigenetic regulators.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  4. Pyridine-containing antitumor agents: structure-oriented medicinal chemistry, structure-activity relationships, and ADMET liabilities.Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents · 2026
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  6. From METTL3 PROTACs to pyroptosis-coupled design: a medicinal chemistry agenda for next-generation targeted degraders.Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents · 2026
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  9. Induced proximity-based therapeutic modalities.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  18. PROTACs in cancer immunotherapy: a minireview.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025
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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

7 authors.

Rohan Kalyan RejRogel Cancer Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0904-9137
Srinivasa Rao AlluRogel Cancer Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9178-2578
Joyeeta RoyRogel Cancer Center, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4904-0551
Ranjan Kumar AcharyyaRogel Cancer Center, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1562-0216
I N Chaithanya KiranDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Yesu AddepalliDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
V DhamodharanInstitute of Organic Chemistry, Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, University of Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5249-8096

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are an emerging therapeutic modality that show promise to open a target space not accessible to conventional small molecules via a degradation-based mechanism. PROTAC degraders, due to their bifunctional nature, which is categorized as 'beyond the Rule of Five', have gained attention as a distinctive therapeutic approach for oral administration in clinical settings. However, the development of PROTACs with adequate oral bioavailability remains a significant hurdle, largely due to their large size and less than ideal physical and chemical properties. This review encapsulates the latest advancements in orally delivered PROTACs that have entered clinical evaluation as well as developments highlighted in recent scholarly articles. The insights and methodologies elaborated upon in this review could be instrumental in supporting the discovery and refinement of novel PROTAC degraders aimed at the treatment of various human cancers.

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cancer oral drugPROTAC

Identifiers

PMID38675453
PMCPMC11054475

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