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Theranostics
January 2025
Engineering Research Center of Cell & Therapeutic Antibody, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are bifunctional compounds that have been extensively studied for their role in targeted protein degradation (TPD). The capacity to degrade validated or undruggable targets provides PROTACs with significant potency in cancer therapy. However, the clinical application of PROTACs is limited by their poor potency and unfavorable pharmacokinetic properties.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacognosy, Goa College of Pharmacy, Goa University, Panaji, India.
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom
January 2025
Technical University of Darmstadt, Clemens-Schöpf Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Peter-Grünberg-Straße 4, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Molecular glues (MGs) and proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are used to modulate protein-protein interactions (PPIs), via induced proximity between compounds that have little or no affinity for each other naturally. They promote either reversible inhibition or selective degradation of a target protein, including ones deemed undruggable by traditional therapeutics. Though native MS (nMS) is capable of analyzing multiprotein complexes, the behavior of these artificially induced compounds in the gas phase is still not fully understood, and the number of publications over the past few years is still rather limited.
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January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China. Electronic address:
Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Corydalisdecumbens (Thunb.) (CD) is a traditional Chinese medicine and as a single herb or formula has been used to treat RA for decades. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a persistent, systemic autoimmune inflammatory disease.
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February 2025
South University School of Pharmacy, Savannah, Giorgia, USA.
KRAS is a proto-oncogene that is found to be mutated in 15% of all metastatic cancers with high prevalence in pancreatic, lung, and colorectal cancers. Additionally, patients harboring KRAS mutations respond poorly to standard cancer therapy. As a result, KRAS is seen as an attractive target for targeted anticancer therapy.
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