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Targeted protein degradation: turning undruggable targets into druggable targets

Drug Target Review

Unlike traditional drug discovery, which focuses on inhibiting or activating proteins, TPD offers a more precise and efficient way to alter cellular pathways. 1 The concept of TPD was first demonstrated with a heterobifunctional small molecule to degrader a protein of interest in the early 2000s. How does TPD work? Nature News.

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Molecules of the Month – June 2023

Drug Hunter

danuglipron – An oral GLP-1-RA full agonist in Phase IIb clinical trials for obesity and Phase II trials for type 2 diabetes mellitus, identified through sensitized cell high-throughput screening and optimization, originated from Pfizer.

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Kinase-impaired BTK mutations are susceptible to clinical-stage BTK and IKZF1/3 degrader NX-2127

Covalent Modifiers

We therefore set out to understand the nonenzymatic functions of BTK and explored targeted protein degradation to overcome the oncogenic scaffold function of mutant BTK. RESULTS BTK enzymatic activity assays revealed that drug resistance mutations in BTK fall into two distinct groups: kinase proficient and kinase impaired.

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ARVINAS AND PFIZER ANNOUNCE GLOBAL COLLABORATION TO DEVELOP AND COMMERCIALIZE PROTAC® PROTEIN DEGRADER ARV-471

The Pharma Data

(NYSE: PFE) today announced a global collaboration to develop and commercialize ARV-471, an investigational oral PROTAC® (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera) estrogen receptor protein degrader. The estrogen receptor is a well-known disease driver in most breast cancers. Chief Executive Officer at Arvinas.

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Arvinas, Inc. Announces Pricing of $400 Million Public Offering of Common Stock

The Pharma Data

Nasdaq: ARVN), a clinical-stage biotechnology company creating a new class of drugs based on targeted protein degradation using its PROTAC ® Discovery Engine, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 5,714,286 shares of its common stock at a price of $70.00 NEW HAVEN, Conn.,

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How to Get Drugs Into the Brain

Drug Hunter

Overall, only a few prodrugs for CNS disorders have even reached clinical trials , so for the most part traditional property-based drug design remains the best bet for the vast majority of programs. What is K p,uu ? Figure 18. A) Progression of a Novartis HAT program from a screening hit to brain-penetrant leads.

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