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The Potential of Proteolytic Chimeras as Pharmacological Tools and Therapeutic Agents
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The induction of protein degradation in a highly selective and efficient way by means of druggable molecules is known as targeted protein degradation (TPD). TPD emerged in the literature as a revolutionary idea: a heterobifunctional chimera with the capacity of creating an interaction between a protein of interest (POI) and a E3 ubiquitin ligase will induce a process of events in the POI, including ubiquitination, targeting to the proteasome, proteolysis and functional silencing, acting as a sort of degradative knockdown. With this programmed protein degradation, toxic and disease-causing proteins could be depleted from cells with potentially effective low drug doses. The proof-of-principle validation of this hypothesis in many studies has made the TPD strategy become a new attractive paradigm for the development of therapies for the treatment of multiple unmet diseases. Indeed, since the initial protacs (Proteolysis targeting chimeras) were posited in the 2000s, the TPD field has expanded extraordinarily, developing innovative chemistry and exploiting multiple degradation approaches. In this article, we review the breakthroughs and recent novel concepts in this highly active discipline.
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COLL-MARTÍNEZ, Bernat, DELGADO CIRILO, Antonio i CROSAS I NAVARRO, Bernat. The Potential of Proteolytic Chimeras as Pharmacological Tools and Therapeutic Agents. Molecules. 2020. Vol. 25, núm. 24, pàgs. 5956. ISSN 1420-3049. [consulta: 11 de maig de 2026]. Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/183779