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ArticleNature chemical biology2025

A small-molecule VHL molecular glue degrader for cysteine dioxygenase 1.

Antonin Tutter, Dennis Buckley, Andrei A Golosov, Xiaolei Ma, Wei Shu, Daniel J J McKay, Veronique Darsigny, Dustin Dovala, Rohan Beckwith, Jonathan Solomon and 9 more

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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19 authors.

Antonin TutterDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dennis BuckleyDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Andrei A GolosovGlobal Discovery Chemistry, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Xiaolei MaGlobal Discovery Chemistry, Novartis Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-827X
Wei ShuGlobal Discovery Chemistry, Novartis Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3259-6059
Daniel J J McKayGlobal Discovery Chemistry, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Veronique DarsignyDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dustin DovalaDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, USA.
Rohan BeckwithDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jonathan SolomonDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4588-2751
Pasupuleti RaoDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lei XuDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Aleem FazalDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0643-0477
Andreas LingelGlobal Discovery Chemistry, Novartis Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2909-4920
Charles WartchowDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Emeryville, CA, USA.
Jennifer S CobbDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Amanda HacheyDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jennifer TullaiDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Gregory A MichaudDiscovery Sciences, Novartis Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. gregory.michaud@novartis.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-4921

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene product (pVHL) is an E3 ligase substrate receptor that binds proline-hydroxylated hypoxia-inducible factor HIF1α, leading to its ubiquitin-dependent degradation. By using protein arrays, we identified a small molecule that binds the HIF1α-binding pocket on pVHL and functions as a molecular glue degrader of the neosubstrate cysteine dioxygenase (CDO1) by recruiting it into the VHL-Cullin-RING E3 ligase complex and leading to its selective degradation. The CDO1-binding region involved in VHL recruitment was characterized through a combination of mutagenesis and protein-protein docking coupled with molecular-dynamics-based solvation analysis. The X-ray structure of the ternary complexes of VHL, CDO1 and degrader molecules confirms the binding region prediction and provides atomic insights into key molecular glue interactions.

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Cysteine DioxygenaseSmall Molecule LibrariesVon Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor ProteinBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayHumansHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha SubunitMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProteolysisCysteine DioxygenaseHypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha SubunitSmall Molecule LibrariesVHL protein, humanVon Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein

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