The Therapeutic Potential of PROTACs
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 4199
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) is an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to tackle disease-causing proteins that have historically been highly challenging to target with conventional small molecules. It has received extensive attention from both academia and industry, as it can potentially access previously inaccessible targets. Since the report of the concept of PROTACs using the ubiquitin–proteasome system to degrade target proteins, more and more PROTACs molecules targeting tumor-related proteins have been reported one after another, and many of these key molecules have also entered clinical trials. In the future, we also firmly believe that with the wider discovery of PROTACs target proteins and the expansion of the use of ubiquitin ligases, PROTACs will inevitably expand its model beyond oncology and bring disruptive change to drug discovery.
This Special Issue has the aim to summarize the state-of-the-art, and the latest findings published in the PROTACs field, as well as to elucidate future directions. Topics include: PROTAC technology, targeted protein degradation, degrader and drug development.
Dr. Rui Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PROTAC technology
- inaccessible targets
- targeted protein degradation
- drug discovery
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