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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Identification of Actionable Targeted Protein Degradation Effector Sites through Site-Specific Ligand Incorporation-Induced Proximity (SLIP).

Zhangping Xiao, Efthymios S Gavriil, Fangyuan Cao, Xinyue Zhang, Stan Xiaogang Li, Sergei Kotelnikov, Patrycja Michalska, Friederike Marte, Chloe Huang, Yudi Lu and 4 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Zhangping XiaoDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Efthymios S GavriilDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0009-0006-6241-9335
Fangyuan CaoDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Xinyue ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Stan Xiaogang LiDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States.
Sergei KotelnikovDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9400-101X
Patrycja MichalskaDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Friederike MarteDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Chloe HuangDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Yudi LuDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Yunxuan ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0009-0002-7759-1163
Erika BernardiniDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.
Dima KozakovDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States.
Edward W TateDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-2213-5814

Funding

Enabling the Accelerated Discovery of Novel Chemical Probes by Integration of Crystallographic, Computational, and Synthetic Chemistry ApproachesR01GM140154 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TROPSHA, ALEXANDER, WILLSON, TIMOTHY M · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
Simulation of Multi-Protein systemsR01GM140098 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI KOZAKOV, DMYTRO · 2021 to 2024
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140098NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM140154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a rapidly emerging and potentially transformative therapeutic modality. However, the large majority of >600 known ubiquitin ligases have yet to be exploited as TPD effectors by proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) or molecular glue degraders (MGDs). We report here a chemical-genetic platform, Site-specific Ligand Incorporation-induced Proximity (SLIP), to identify actionable ("PROTACable") sites on any potential effector protein in intact cells. SLIP uses genetic code expansion to encode copper-free "click" ligation at a specific effector site in intact cells, enabling the in situ formation of a covalent PROTAC-effector conjugate against a target protein of interest. Modification at actionable effector sites drives degradation of the targeted protein, establishing the potential of these sites for TPD. Using SLIP, we systematically screened dozens of sites across E3 ligases and E2 enzymes from diverse classes, identifying multiple novel potentially PROTACable effector sites which are competent for TPD. SLIP adds a powerful approach to the proximity-induced pharmacology (PIP) toolbox, enabling future effector ligand discovery to fully enable TPD and other emerging PIP modalities.

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ProteolysisUbiquitin-Protein LigasesHumansLigandsLigandsUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID40493711
PMCPMC12203575

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