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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Discovery of an LSD1 PROTAC degrader.

Amir Hosseini, Xing Qiu, Yan Xiong, Ki Him Nicholas Chiang, Jerrel Catlett, Ines Kaltheuner, Zhijie Deng, Sudipta Ghosh, Yang Shi, Jian Jin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 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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10 authors.

Amir Hosseini *Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom.
Xing Qiu *Mount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.
Yan XiongMount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.
Ki Him Nicholas ChiangLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom.
Jerrel CatlettMount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.ORCID 0000-0001-6037-5136
Ines KaltheunerLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom.
Zhijie DengMount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.
Sudipta GhoshLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom.
Yang ShiLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9713-1709
Jian JinMount Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029.ORCID 0000-0002-2387-3862

Funding

An AVANCE NEO 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Chemical Biology and Drug DiscoveryS10OD028504 · OD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI ZHOU, MING-MING · 2020 to 2020
$599k
An AVANCE NEO 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer System for Structural and Chemical BiologyS10OD025132 · OD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI ZHOU, MING-MING · 2019 to 2019
$535k
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1S10OD025132HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1S10OD028504NIH HHS S10 OD025132NIH HHS S10 OD028504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aberrant expression of lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) has been implicated in various cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Recent studies have revealed both catalytic and noncatalytic oncogenic functions of LSD1, which cannot be effectively addressed by traditional small-molecule inhibitors. Therefore, to remove LSD1 and mitigate its oncogenic activity, we utilized the proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) approach and developed an LSD1 PROTAC degrader MS9117, which recruits the E3 ligase cereblon (CRBN). MS9117 induces LSD1 degradation in a concentration-, time-, CRBN-, and proteasome-dependent manner. Importantly, MS9117 effectively degrades LSD1 and demonstrates superior antiproliferative effects in AML cells, compared to the existing pharmacological LSD1 inhibitors. Furthermore, MS9117 also sensitized nonacute promyelocytic leukemia AML cells to all-trans retinoic acid treatment. Moreover, we developed two negative controls of MS9117, MS9117N1 and MS9117N2, which do not degrade LSD1 or inhibit leukemia cell growth, further confirming the mechanism of action of MS9117. Overall, MS9117 serves as a valuable chemical tool and a potential therapeutic to target both the catalytic and scaffolding functions of LSD1. With several LSD1 inhibitors already in clinical development, the LSD1 degraders such as MS9117 offer an additional option for future clinical studies.

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Histone DemethylasesLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteProteolysisAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationHumansTretinoinUbiquitin-Protein LigasesAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCRBN protein, humanHistone DemethylasesKDM1A protein, humanTretinoinUbiquitin-Protein LigasesAMLATRAdegraderLSD1PROTAC

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PMID40366693
PMCPMC12107161

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