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ReviewCommunications biology2025

Cellular parameters shaping pathways of targeted protein degradation.

Annabel Cardno, Bryony Kennedy, Catherine Lindon

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Review in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evolving CRBN ligands enhance the drug-like properties of protein degraders.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  2. De Novo-Designed Bifunctional Proteins for Targeted Protein Degradation.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Annabel CardnoDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-2099-729X
Bryony KennedyDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Catherine LindonDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. acl34@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3554-2574

Funding

RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/X007499/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years the development of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) has enhanced the field of ubiquitin signalling through advancing therapeutic targeted protein degradation (TPD) strategies and generating tools to explore the ubiquitin landscape. However, the interplay between PROTACs and their substrates, and other components of the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS), raises fundamental questions about cellular parameters that might influence the action of PROTACs and the amenability of a given target to PROTAC-mediated degradation. In this perspective we discuss examples of cellular parameters that have been shown to influence PROTAC sensitivity and consider others likely to be important for PROTAC-mediated target degradation but not yet routinely considered in design of novel TPD strategies: Target localisation and accessibility on the one hand, and expression patterns, localisation and activity of E3 ligases, deubiquitinases (DUBs) and wider ubiquitin machinery on the other, are critical parameters in the exploitation of PROTACs, and establishing a better understanding of these parameters will facilitate the rational design of PROTACs.

Indexed as

ProteolysisUbiquitinAnimalsDeubiquitinating EnzymesHumansProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexSignal TransductionUbiquitinationUbiquitin-Protein LigasesDeubiquitinating EnzymesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexUbiquitinUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

Identifiers

PMID40316744
PMCPMC12048530

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