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

Broad Institute

The new study appears in Science. This approach allows them to remove a target protein in minutes by adding PT-179 while preserving the corresponding gene’s natural genomic context, thereby minimizing perturbation of regulatory mechanisms crucial to the native biological function of many proteins. March 14, 2024.

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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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AI in Drug Discovery - A Highly Opinionated Literature Review (Part III)

Practical Cheminformatics

Following up on Part I and Part II, the third post in this series is a collection of review articles published in 2023 that I found helpful.

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

Covalent Modifiers

Science 383 , eadi5798 (2024). 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. Skye Montoya et al. Covalent and noncovalent inhibitors of BTK have revolutionized the treatment of these cancers.

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Targeted protein degradation and next-generation degraders | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

Protein degradation in the cell Research over many years helped build a comprehensive picture of protein synthesis in the cell. However, knowledge of how proteins are broken down and how degradation contributes to cellular regulation is more recent.

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Oncology Market Outlook 2024

Fierce BioTech

It addresses CAR-T therapies, KRAS, radiopharmaceuticals, & targeted protein degradation. It addresses CAR-T therapies, KRAS, radiopharmaceuticals, & targeted protein degradation. Blue Matter Consulting Resource Type Whitepaper BlueMatterConsulting_250x190 (1) (2).png