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ReviewJournal of medicinal chemistry2024

Targeted Protein Degradation: Current and Emerging Approaches for E3 Ligase Deconvolution.

Yufeng Xiao, Yaxia Yuan, Yi Liu, Zongtao Lin, Guangrong Zheng, Daohong Zhou, Dongwen Lv

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Review in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. E3 Ubiquitin Ligases in MASH-Associated Liver Fibrosis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  3. First Generation Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) for the Treatment of Progeria.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
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  5. Development of PolyHis-Targeting PROTAC Degraders.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Yufeng XiaoDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, 1333 Center Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2679-0800
Yaxia YuanDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7094-4419
Yi LiuDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, 1333 Center Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States.
Zongtao LinDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United States.
Guangrong ZhengDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, 1333 Center Drive, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8106-6663
Daohong ZhouDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States.
Dongwen LvDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States.ORCID 0009-0005-5073-0313

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE---COREP30CA054174 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Lei Zheng · 1991 to 2026
$59.1M
Inhibition of Bcl-xL by Targeted DegradationR01CA241191 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI KONOPLEVA, MARINA Y, ZHENG, GUANGRONG · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
Use of BCL-xL Proteolysis targeting chimeras to treat pancreatic cancerR01CA242003 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI TREVINO, JOSE G., ZHENG, GUANGRONG · 2019 to 2023
$2.6M
Develop BCL-xL proteolysis targeting chimeras as safer and better senolyticsR01AG063801 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI ELISSEEFF, JENNIFER H, ZHENG, GUANGRONG · 2019 to 2023
$2.6M
Development of Caspase Cleavage Targeting Chimeras (CACTACs) for Targeted Protein Cleavage.R21CA286307 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI LYU, DONGWEN · 2024 to 2025
$409k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA054174NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241191NCI NIH HHS R01 CA242003NCI NIH HHS R21 CA286307NIA NIH HHS R01 AG063801
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation (TPD), including the use of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) and molecular glue degraders (MGDs) to degrade proteins, is an emerging strategy to develop novel therapies for cancer and beyond. PROTACs or MGDs function by inducing the proximity between an E3 ligase and a protein of interest (POI), leading to ubiquitination and consequent proteasomal degradation of the POI. Notably, one major issue in TPD is the lack of ligandable E3 ligases, as current studies predominantly use CUL4

Indexed as

ProteolysisUbiquitin-Protein LigasesHumansUbiquitinationUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

Identifiers

PMID38981094
PMCPMC12912787

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