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ArticleAnnual review of cancer biology2024

Chemical Proteomics-Guided Discovery of Covalent Ligands for Cancer Proteins.

Xiaoyu Zhang, Benjamin F Cravatt

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Article in Annual review of cancer biology, 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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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Cysteine reactivity profiling identifies host regulators ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  12. Covalent Proximity Inducers.Chemical reviews · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xiaoyu ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Benjamin F CravattDepartment of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

Funding

Chemical Proteomic Platforms for Radically Expanding Cancer DruggabilityR35CA231991 · NCI · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI BENJAMIN F CRAVATT · 2018 to 2026
$9.5M
Discovery of small molecule-mediated protein degradation pathways in human cancerR00CA248715 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, XIAOYU · 2022 to 2024
$747k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA248715NCI NIH HHS R35 CA231991
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in genome sequencing and editing technologies have enriched our understanding of the biochemical pathways that drive tumorigenesis. Translating this knowledge into new medicines for cancer treatment, however, remains challenging, and many oncogenic proteins have proven recalcitrant to conventional approaches for chemical probe and drug discovery. Here, we discuss how innovations in chemical proteomics and covalent chemistry are being integrated to identify and advance first-in-class small molecules that target cancer-relevant proteins. Mechanistic studies have revealed that covalent compounds perturb protein functions in cancer cells in diverse ways that include the remodeling of protein-protein and protein-RNA complexes, as well as through alterations in post-translational modification. We speculate on the attributes of chemical proteomics and covalent chemistry that have enabled targeting of previously inaccessible cancer-relevant pathways and consider technical challenges that remain to be addressed in order to fully realize the druggability of the cancer proteome.

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