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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Hijacking Extracellular Targeted Protein Degrader-Drug Conjugates for Enhanced Drug Delivery.

Fangzhu Zhao, Yan Wu, Kaitlin Schaefer, Yun Zhang, Kun Miao, Zi Yao, Snehal D Ganjave, Kaan Kumru, Trenton M Peters-Clarke, Alex Inague and 3 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 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Targeted extracellular degradation of LRP8 promotes ferroptosis in cancer cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. A Plug-and-Play Platform for Customizing Multivalent Degraders and Degrader-Drug Conjugates.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  14. A cytokine receptor-targeting chimera toolbox for expanding extracellular targeted protein degradation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Fangzhu ZhaoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3172-1340
Yan WuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2596-1943
Kaitlin SchaeferDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Yun ZhangDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Kun MiaoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Zi YaoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Snehal D GanjaveDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6389-2972
Kaan KumruDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.
Trenton M Peters-ClarkeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9153-2525
Alex InagueDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7410-9226
James A OlzmannDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Kevin K LeungDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2087-4974
James A WellsDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8267-5519

Funding

Surfaceomic technologies and antibodies to probe cell surface proteomes and their interactomes at unprecedented small scale and high-resolutionR35GM122451 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JAMES A WELLS · 2017 to 2026
$5.3M
Research Training in Chemistry and Chemical BiologyT32GM145460 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Jason E Gestwicki · 2022 to 2026
$3.1M
MYCN drives a ferroptotic vulnerability in neuroblastomaR01CA276207 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Anthony Charles Faber, JAMES A OLZMANN · 2023 to 2026
$2.9M
New protein engineering-based tools and technologies for characterizing cell surface proteolysis in cancer cells for novel neo-epitope biomarkers and drug targetsR01CA248323 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JAMES A WELLS · 2020 to 2026
$2.6M
Toward Understanding the Functional Landscape of Proteolysis at the Cell SurfaceF32CA298768 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Trenton Peters-Clarke · 2025 to 2026
$155k
Mapping tumor specific immunopeptidome for antibody-based targeted therapyF32GM149084 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI YAO, ZI · 2023 to 2024
$143k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA298768NCI NIH HHS R01 CA248323NCI NIH HHS R01 CA276207NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM149084NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122451NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM145460
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibody-based therapeutics encompass diverse modalities for targeting tumor cells. Among these, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and extracellular targeted protein degradation (eTPD) specifically depend on efficient lysosomal trafficking for activity. A major limitation of ADCs is their reliance on antigens with efficient internalization, while eTPD approaches, although capable of trafficking diverse targets to lysosomes, lack cytotoxic potency. To address this, we developed degrader-drug conjugates (DDCs), leveraging the endocytic and recycling activities of eTPD to enhance lysosomal delivery. We utilized fast internalizers, the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) and the chemokine receptor (CXCR7), to enhance lysosomal delivery. LDLR-based degraders enabled efficient and selective degradation of diverse extracellular membrane proteins, while DDCs with cytotoxic payload enhanced cytotoxicity compared to conventional ADCs

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsDrug Delivery SystemsImmunoconjugatesProteolysisReceptors, LDLCell Line, TumorHumansLysosomesAntineoplastic AgentsImmunoconjugatesReceptors, LDL

Identifiers

PMID41091621
PMCPMC12576823

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