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The Roles of Degrons in Targeted Protein Degradation | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

At the most fundamental level you can think of a degron as a sequence of amino acids or a structural motif that can facilitate the degradation of protein substrates.

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Genentech takes up a deal to make ‘molecular glue’ drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Targeted protein degradation has emerged as one of the more competitive areas of pharmaceutical research in recent years as scientists develop new ways to reach difficult-to-drug targets.

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Scientists generate new targeted protein degradation system that tunes a cell’s own proteins

Broad Institute

Related groups Liu lab Choudhary lab Fischer lab Researchers studying the role of proteins in health and disease use experimental tools that inactivate proteins, destroy them, or prevent them from being made in cells. PACE allows researchers to rapidly evolve new proteins that have useful features.

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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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Seagen partners with Nurix to create new kind of cancer drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The alliance, which aims to combine Seagen’s antibody expertise with Nurix’s targeted protein degradation research, comes as the larger biotech awaits its acquisition by Pfizer to close.

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Attacking Cancers Using Novel Methods of Targeted Protein Degradation

SugarCone Biotech

Thus, it is not enough for 2 proteins to each be expressed on the same cell surface, other features such as protein mobility in the cell membrane must play a role. I suspect this is an area of active research. Indeed, if one just binds transferrin to Trf1 it will internalize, release iron and pop back up on the cell surface.

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Evotec Achieves Key Milestones in Its Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb On Targeted Protein Degradation

The Pharma Data

Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb (the successor in interest to Celgene ) initiated their long-term strategic drug discovery and development partnership in the field of targeted protein degradation in 2018 with the goal to identify novel drug targets.