Thursday, January 28, 2021

Chemoproteomics-enabled discovery of covalent RNF114-based degraders that mimic natural product function [@DanNomura, @j_sprads]

Luo M, Spradlin JN,  Boike L, Tong B, Brittain SM, McKenna JM, Tallarico JA, Schirle M, Maimone TJ#, Nomura DK

Cell Chemical Biology, 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.01.005

The translation of functionally active natural products into fully synthetic small-molecule mimetics has remained an important process in medicinal chemistry. We recently discovered that the terpene natural product nimbolide can be utilized as a covalent recruiter of the E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF114 for use in targeted protein degradation—a powerful therapeutic modality within modern-day drug discovery. Using activity-based protein profiling-enabled covalent ligand-screening approaches, here we report the discovery of fully synthetic RNF114-based recruiter molecules that can also be exploited for PROTAC applications, and demonstrate their utility in degrading therapeutically relevant targets, such as BRD4 and BCR-ABL, in cells. The identification of simple and easily manipulated drug-like scaffolds that can mimic the function of a complex natural product is beneficial in further expanding the toolbox of E3 ligase recruiters, an area of great importance in drug discovery and chemical biology.



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