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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2026

Direct-to-Biology Enabled Molecular Glue Discovery.

Maowei Hu, Jason Ochoada, Marisa Actis, Kevin McGowan, Jamie A Jarusiewicz, Satoshi Yoshimura, Logan McGrath, Uma Neelakantan, Anup Aggarwal, Anand Mayasundari and 12 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Generalized Analysis of Electrophilic Small Molecules.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  7. Localized heme sensing through a ternary molecular glue.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Maowei HuDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Jason OchoadaLead Discovery Informatics Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Marisa ActisTargeted Protein Degradation Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38015, United States.
Kevin McGowanMedicinal Chemistry Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Jamie A JarusiewiczTargeted Protein Degradation Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38015, United States.
Satoshi YoshimuraDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Logan McGrathDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Uma NeelakantanDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Anup AggarwalTargeted Protein Degradation Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38015, United States.
Anand MayasundariTargeted Protein Degradation Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38015, United States.
Sarah M YoungDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Meng ZhangCenter of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery, Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Lei YangAnalytical Technologies Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3060-0790
Yong LiAnalytical Technologies Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Shea MercerProgram Management, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38015, United States.
M Madan BabuCenter of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery, Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Marcus FischerDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7179-2581
Brandon M YoungMedicinal Chemistry Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Jun J YangDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.
Gisele NishiguchiTargeted Protein Degradation Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38015, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2253-9325
Anang A ShelatLead Discovery Informatics Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6266-2910
Daniel J BlairDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2279-7538

Funding

Developing and Discovering Covalent Inhibitors through Fragmentation-First ExperimentationR35GM159997 · NIGMS · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI BLAIR, DANIEL JAMES · 2025 to 2025
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM159997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular glues powerfully control protein proximity but have largely eluded direct screening. A promising avenue for addressing this challenge lies within pinpointing the fundamental features for function-first identification of molecular gluing events. In the widely accepted mechanism, a molecular glue stabilizes two proteins within a ternary complex─here, we show how differences in affinity for ternary and binary complexes directly categorize glues from nonglues. We leverage these differences together with high-throughput chemical synthesis and affinity-selection mass-spectrometry to discover a molecular glue from a suite of over 20,000 crude chemical reaction mixtures. Orthogonal assays robustly support the identification of molecular glues via ternary complex stability. Our findings suggest that a roadmap for

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PMID41443594
PMCPMC12814336

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