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Targeted protein degradation via intramolecular bivalent glues

Oliver Hsia, Matthias Hinterndorfer, Angus D. Cowan, Kentaro Iso, Tasuku Ishida, Ramasubramanian Sundaramoorthy, Mark A. Nakasone, Hana Imrichova, Caroline Schätz, Andrea Rukavina, Koraljka Husnjak, Martin Wegner, Alejandro Correa-Sáez, Conner Craigon, Ryan Casement, Chiara Maniaci, Andrea Testa, Manuel Kaulich, Ivan Dikic, Georg E. Winter & Alessio Ciulli

Nature (2024) https://rdcu.be/dzfgN

Design of a Cereblon construct for crystallographic and biophysical studies of protein degraders

Alena Kroupova, Valentina A. Spiteri, Hirotake Furihata, Darren Darren, Sarath Ramachandran, Zoe J. Rutter, Sohini Chakraborti, Kevin Haubrich, Julie Pethe, Denzel Gonzales, Andre Wijaya, Maria Rodriguez-Rios, Dylan M. Lynch, William Farnaby, Mark A. Nakasone, David Zollman*, Alessio Ciulli*

BioRxiv 2024.01.17.575503; doi: 10.1101/2024.01.17.575503

 

Refereed Papers In Primary Journals

* A.C. Corresponding Author

 

Independent Research: Ciulli Group

135. Charlotte Crowe, Mark Nakasone, Sarah Chandler, Michael H. Tatham, Nikolai Makukhin, Ronald T. Hay, Alessio Ciulli*

Mechanism of degrader-targeted protein ubiquitinability

BioRxiv 2024.02.05.578957; doi: 10.1101/2024.02.05.578957

 

133. Claudia Diehl, Alessandra Salerno, Alessio Ciulli*
Ternary Complex-Directed Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry Enables Discovery of Potent VHL Homo-PROTACs.
ChemRxiv. Cambridge: Cambridge Open Engage; 2023; DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-tz70z

132. Johannes Popow, William Farnaby, Andreas Gollner, Christiane Kofink, Gerhard Fischer, Melanie Wurm, David Zollman, Andre Wijaya, Nikolai Mischerikow, Carina Hasenoehrl, Polina Prokofeva, Heribert Arnhof, Silvia Arce-Solano, Sammy Bell, Georg Boeck, Emelyne Diers, Aileen B Frost, Jake Goodwin-Tindall, Jale Karolyi-Oezguer, Shakil Khan, Theresa Klawatsch, Manfred Koegl, Roland Kousek, Barbara Kratochvil, Katrin Kropatsch, Arnel A Lauber, Ross McLennan, Sabine Olt, Daniel Peter, Oliver Petermann, Vanessa Roessler, Peggy Stolt-Bergner, Patrick Strack, Eva Strauss, Nicole Trainor, Vesna Vetma, Claire Whitworth, Siying Zhong, Jens Quant, Harald Weinstabl, Bernhard Küster, Peter Ettmayer*, Alessio Ciulli*
Targeting cancer with small molecule pan-KRAS degraders
bioRxiv 2023.10.24.563163; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.24.563163

131. Ciulli, A.*, O’Connor, S.*, Chung, C.-W., Hartung, I. V., Testa, A., Daniels, D. L., Heitman, L. H.*

The 17th EFMC Short Course on Medicinal Chemistry on Small Molecule Protein Degraders

ChemMedChem 2023, e202300464.

130. Ramachandran, S., Makukhin, N., Haubrich, K., Nagala, M., Forrester, B., Lynch, D.M., Casement, R., Testa, A., Bruno, E., Gitto, R., Ciulli, A. *

Structure-based design of a phosphotyrosine-masked covalent ligand targeting the E3 ligase SOCS2

Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 6345

  • PMID: 37816714  PMCID: PMC10564737
  • Preprint version 1   DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-bvj80
  • Preprint  version 2  DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-bvj80-v2
  • X-ray crystallographic atomic coordinates and structure factors are available at the PDB under accession codes 7ZLP (compound 9 soaked to SBC2), 7ZLN (compound 11 soaked to SBC2), 7ZLO (compound 12 soaked to SBC2), 7ZLR (compound 13 soaked to SBC2), 7ZLS (compound 13 co-crystallized in complex with SBC2), 7ZLM (compound MN551 co-crystallized in complex with SBC2).

129. Oliver Hsia, Matthias Hinterndorfer, Angus D. Cowan, Kentaro Iso, Tasuku Ishida, Ramasubramanian Sundaramoorthy, Mark A. Nakasone, Hana Imrichova, Caroline Schätz, Andrea Rukavina, Koraljka Husnjak, Martin Wegner, Alejandro Correa-Sáez, Conner Craigon, Ryan Casement, Chiara Maniaci, Andrea Testa, Manuel Kaulich, Ivan Dikic, Georg E. Winter*, Alessio Ciulli*

Targeted protein degradation via intramolecular bivalent glues

bioRxiv 2023.02.14.528511; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.14.528511

  • Preprint version 1: DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.14.528511v1
  • Cryo-EM density maps are deposited in the EMDB with the accession code EMD-17172 and will be released upon publication. The atomic model is deposited under Protein Data Bank ID 8OV6.

128. Vu, L.P., Diehl, C.J., Casement, R., Bond, A.G., Steinebach, C., Strašek, N., Bricelj, A., Perdih, A., Schnakenburg, G., Sosič, I., Ciulli, A.*, Gütschow, M*

Expanding the Structural Diversity at the Phenylene Core of Ligands for the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 Ubiquitin Ligase: Development of Highly Potent Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) Stabilizers

J. Med. Chem. 2023, 66 (18), 12776-12811

127. Liu, X. Ciulli, A.*

Proximity-Based Modalities for Biology and Medicine

ACS Cent. Sci. 2023, 9 (7), 1269–1284

126. Clara Gathmann, Lydia S Newton, Sophie Ridewood, Robert J Smith, Thomas W Hornsby, Ann-Kathrin Reuschl, Andre J Wijaya, Kate L Morling, Ying Ying Tan, Lucy G Thorne, Alessio Ciulli, Clare Jolly, Greg J Towers, David L Selwood

Synthetic PROTACs based on a depsipeptide macrocycle selectively degrade cyclophilin A and inhibit HIV-1

15 March 2023, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2639894/v1]

125. Haubrich, K., Spiteri, V.A., Farnaby, W., Sobott, F., Ciulli, A.*

Breaking free from the crystal lattice: Structural biology in solution to study protein degraders

Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol., 2023, 79, 102534

124. Wijaya, A.J., Farnaby, W., Ciulli, A.*

Crystallization of VHL-based PROTAC-induced ternary complexes

Methods in Enzymology 2023, 681, 241–263

123. Hanzl, A., Casement, R., Imrichova, H., Hughes, S.J., Barone, E., Testa, A., Bauer, S., Wright, J., Brand, M., Ciulli, A.*, Winter, G.E.*

Functional E3 ligase hotspots and resistance mechanisms to small-molecule degraders

Nat. Chem. Biol. 2023, 19 (3), 323-333

122. Kofink, C., Trainor, N., Mair, B., Wöhrle, S., Wurm, M., Mischerikow, N., Roy, M., Bader, G., Greb, P., Garavel, G., Diers, E., McLennan, R., Whitworth, C., Vetma, V., Rumpel, K., Scharnweber, M., Fuchs, J.E., Gerstberger, T., Cui, Y., Gremel, G., Chetta, P., Hopf, S., Budano, N., Rinnenthal, J., Gmaschitz, G., Mayer, M., Koegl, M., Ciulli, A., Weinstabl, H., Farnaby, W.

A selective and orally bioavailable VHL-recruiting PROTAC achieves SMARCA2 degradation in vivo

Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 5969

  • PMID: 36216795 PMCID: PMC9551036
  • Pre-print posted at ChemRxiv on 1 February 2022; DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-q63s3
  • Covered in UoD News website
  • Featured in a Comment article by John Harling and Chris Tinworth in Nature Communication
  • X-ray co-crystal structures data have been deposited to the PDB under accession codes 7Z78 (compound 4 in complex with SMARCA2-BD), 7Z6L (VCB: compound 5: SMARCA2-BD ternary complex), 7Z77 (VCB: compound 6: SMARCA2-BD ternary complex), and 7Z76 (VCB: compound 10: SMARCA2-BD ternary complex).

121. Cipriano, A., Milite, C., Feoli, A., Viviano, M., Pepe, G., Campiglia, P., Sarno, G., Picaud, S., Imaide, S., Makukhin, N., Filippakopoulos, P., Ciulli, A., Castellano, S., Sbardella, G.

Discovery of benzo[d]imidazole-6-sulfonamides as Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal Domain (BET) Inhibitors with Selectivity for the First Bromodomain

ChemMedChem 2022, 17 (20), e202200343

120. Liu, X., Kalogeropulou, A., Domingos, S., Makukhin, N., Nirujogi, R., Singh, F., Shpiro, N., Saalfrank, A., Sammler, E., Ganley, I., Moreira, R., Alessi, D.*, Ciulli, A.*

Discovery of XL01126: A Potent, Fast, Cooperative, Selective, Oral bioavailable and Blood Brain Barrier Penetrant PROTAC Degrader of Leucine Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2)

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (37), 16930–16952

119. Diehl, C.J., Ciulli, A.*

Discovery of small molecule ligands for the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 ligase and their use as inhibitors and PROTAC degraders.

Chem. Soc. Rev. 2022, 51, 8216-8257

118. Rasmussen, S.V.,Jin, J.X., Bickford, L.R., Woods, A.D., Sahm, F., Crawford, K.A., Nagamori, K., Goto, H., Torres, K.E., Sidoni, A., Rudzinski, E.R., Thway, K., Jones, R.L., Ciulli, A., Wright, H., Lathara, M., Srinivasa, G., Kannan, K., Huang, P.H., Grünewald, T.G.P., Berlow, N.E., Keller, C.

Functional genomic analysis of epithelioid sarcoma reveals distinct proximal and distal subtype biology

Clin. Transl. Med. 2022, 12 (7), e961

117. Gollner, A., Köster, M., Nicklin, P., Trieselmann, T., Klein, E., Vlach, J., Heine, C., Grundl, M., Ramharter, J., Wyatt, D., Chaturvedi, M., Ciulli, A., Carter, K.C., Müller, S., Bischoff, D., Ettmayer, P., Haaksma, E., Mack, J., McConnell, D., Stenkamp, D., Weinstabl, H., Zentgraf, M., Wood, C.R., Montel, F.

OpnMe.com: a digital initiative for sharing tools with the biomedical research community

Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 2022, 21, 475-476

116. Grohmann, C., Magtoto, C.M., Walker, J.R., Chua, N.K., Gabrielyan, A., Hall, M., Cobbold, S.A., Mieruszynski, S., Brzozowski, M., Simpson, D.S., Dong, H., Dorizzi, B., Jacobsen, A.V., Morrish, E., Silke, N., Murphy, J.M., Heath, J.K., Testa, A., Maniaci, C., Ciulli, A., Lessene, G., Silke, J., Feltham, R.

Development of NanoLuc-targeting protein degraders and a universal reporter system to benchmark tag-targeted degradation platforms

Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 2073

 

115. Cowan, A.D., Ciulli, A.*

Driving E3 Ligase Substrate Specificity for Targeted Protein Degradation: Lessons from Nature and the Laboratory

Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2022, 91, 295-319

114. Webb, T., Craigon, C., Ciulli, A.*

Targeting Epigenetic Modulators Using PROTAC Degraders: Current Status and Future Perspective

Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2022, 63, 128653

113. Liu, X., Ciulli, A.*

Targeted protein stabilization: DUB be good to me

Nat. Chem. Biol. 2022, 18 (4), 358-359

112. Bharathy, N., Cleary, M.M., Kim, J-A., Nagamori, K., Crawford, K.A., Wang, E., Saha, D., Settelmeyer, T.P., Purohit, R., Skopelitis, D., Chang, K., Doran, J.A., Kirschbaum, C.W., Bharathy, S., Crews, D.W., Randolph, M.E., Karnezis, A.N., Hudson-Price, L., Dhawan, J., Michalek, J.E., Ciulli, A.,* Vakoc, C.R. & Keller, C.*

SMARCA4 biology in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

Oncogene 2022, 41, 1647–1656

111. Tarantelli, C., Cannas, E., Ekeh, H., Moscatello, C., Gaudio, E., Cascione, L., Napoli, S., Rech, C., Testa, A., Maniaci, C., Rinaldi, A., Zucca, E., Stathis, A., Ciulli, A., Bertoni, F.

The bromodomain and extra-terminal domain degrader MZ1 exhibits preclinical anti-tumoral activity in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the activated B cell-like type

Explor. Target Antitumor Ther. 2021, 2, 586–601

110. Klein, V.G., Bond, A.G., Craigon, C., Lokey, R.S.*, Ciulli, A.*

Amide-to-ester substitution as a strategy for optimizing PROTAC permeability and cellular activity

J. Med. Chem. 2021, 64 (24), 18082–18101

109. Müller, S., Ackloo, S., Al Chawaf, A., Al-Lazikani, B., Antolin, A., Baell, J.B., Beck, H., Beedie, S., Betz, U.A.K., Arruda Bezerra, G., Brennan, P.E., Brown, D., Brown, P.J., Bullock, A.N., Carter, A.J., Chaikuad, A., Chaineau, M., Ciulli, A., Collins, I., Dreher, J., Drewry, D., Edfeldt, K., Edwards, A.M., Egner, U., Frye, S.V., Fuchs, S.M., Hall, M.D., Hartung, I.V., Hillisch, A., Hitchcock, S.H., Homan, E., Kannan, N., Kiefer, J.R., Knapp, S., Kostic, M., Kubicek, S., Leach, A.R., Lindemann, S., Marsden, B.D., Matsui, H., Meier, J.L., Merk, D., Michel, M., Morgan, M.R., Mueller-Fahrnow, A., Owen, D.R., Perry, B.G., Rosenberg, S.H., Singh Saikatendu, K., Schapira, M., Scholten, C., Sharma, S., Simeonov, A., Sundström, M., Superti-Furga, G., Todd, M.H., Tredup, C., Vedadi, M., von Delft, F., Willson, T.M., Winter, G.E., Workman, P., Arrowsmith, C.H.

Target 2035 – update on the quest for a probe for every protein

RSC Med. Chem. 2022, 13, 13-21

108. Laveglia, V., Giachetti, A., Cerofolini, L., Haubrich, K., Fragai, M., Ciulli, A., Rosato, A.

Automated Determination of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shift Perturbations in Ligand Screening Experiments: The PICASSO Web Server

J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2021, 61 (12), 5726–5733

107. Imaide, S., Riching, K.M., Makukhin, N., Vetma, V., Whitworth, C., Hughes, S.J., Trainor, N., Mahan, S.D., Murphy, N., Cowan, A.D., Chan, K.-H., Craigon, C., Testa, A., Maniaci, C., Urh, M., Daniels, D.L.*; Ciulli, A.*

Trivalent PROTACs enhance protein degradation via combined avidity and cooperativity

Nat. Chem. Biol. 2021, 17 (11), 1157–1167

106. Riching, K.M., Vasta, J.D., Hughes, S.J., Zoppi, V., Maniaci, C., Testa, A., Urh, M., Ciulli, A.*, Daniels, D.L.*

Translating PROTAC chemical series optimization into functional outcomes underlying BRD7 and BRD9 protein degradation

Curr. Res. Chem. Biol., 2021, 1, 100009

105. Bond, A.G., Craigon, C., Chan, K.-H., Testa, A., Karapetsas, A., Fasimoye, R., Macartney, T., Blow, J.J., Alessi, D.R., Ciulli, A.*

Development of BromoTag: A “Bump-and-Hole”–PROTAC System to Induce Potent, Rapid, and Selective Degradation of Tagged Target Proteins

J. Med. Chem. 2021, 64 (20), 15477–15502

  • PMID: 34652918 PMCID: PMC8558867
  • See Figures here
  • Featured in UoD and SLS News websites
  • Listed amongst the Most Read Articles in the journal (1-month timeframe, November 2021)
  • Highlighted in SynFacts
  • Our BromoTag-specific bumped-PROTAC degrader AGB1 is available from Tocris (April 2022)
  • The non-degrading epimer cis-AGB1 is also available from Tocris (April 2022)
  • A second BromoTag-specific bumped-PROTAC degrader AGB3 is also available from Tocris (November 2022)

104. Castro, G.V, Ciulli, A.*

Estimating the cooperativity of PROTAC-induced ternary complexes using 19F NMR displacement assay

RSC Med. Chem. 2021, 12, 1765-1770

103. Ciulli, A.*, Trainor, N.

A beginner’s guide to PROTACs and targeted protein degradation

Biochem (Lond) 2021, 43 (5), 74–79

102. Frost, J.; Rocha, S.*; Ciulli, A.*

Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) small molecule inhibitor binding increases stability and intracellular levels of VHL protein

J. Biol. Chem. 2021, 297 (2), 100910

101. Ciulli, A.; Hamann, L.; Jahnke, W.; Kalgutkar, A.S.; Magauer, T.; Ritter, T.; Steadman, V.; Williams, S.D.; Winter, G.; Hoegenauer, K.; Krawinkler, K.H.; Stepan, A.F.

The 2nd Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry.

ChemMedChem 2021, 16 (15), 2417-2413

100. Ciulli, A.*; Wertz, I.E.*

Editorial overview: Hot targets and new modalities.

Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2021, 62, A1-A3

99. Pietrobono, S.; Gaudio, E.; Gagliardi, S.; Zitani, M.; Carrassa, L.; Migliorini, F.; Petricci, E.; Manetti, F.; Makukhin, N.; Bond, A.G.; Paradise, B.D.; Ciulli, A.; Fernandez-Zapico, M.E.; Bertoni, F.; Stecca, B.

Targeting non-canonical activation of GLI1 by the SOX2-BRD4 transcriptional complex improves the efficacy of HEDGEHOG pathway inhibition in melanoma

Oncogene 2021, 40, 3799-3814

98. Farnaby, W.; Koegl, M.; McConnell, D.B.; Ciulli, A.

Transforming targeted cancer therapy with PROTACs: A forward-looking perspective

Curr. Opin. Pharmacol. 2021, 57, 175-183

97. Ramachandran, S.; Ciulli, A.*

Building ubiquitination machineries: E3 ligase multi-subunit assembly and substrate targeting by PROTACs and molecular glues

Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2021, 67, 110-119

96. Ishida, T., Ciulli, A.*

E3 Ligase Ligands for PROTACs: How They Were Found and How to Discover New Ones

SLAS Discov. 2021, 26 (4), 484-502

95. Makukhin, N., Ciulli, A.*

Recent advances in synthetic and medicinal chemistry of phosphotyrosine and phosphonate- based phosphotyrosine analogues

RSC Med. Chem. 2021, 12, 8-23

94. Klein, V.G., Townsend, C.E., Testa, A., Zengerle, M., Maniaci, C., Hughes, S.J., Chan, K.-H., Ciulli, A., Lokey, R.S.

Understanding and improving the membrane permeability of VH032-based PROTACs

ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11 (9), 1732-1738

93. Bond, A.G., Testa, A., Ciulli, A.*

Stereoselective Synthesis of Allele-Specific BET Inhibitors

Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 7533-7539

92. Cipriano, A., Sbardella, G.,* Ciulli, A.*

Targeting epigenetic reader domains by chemical biology

Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2020, 57, 82-94

  • PMID: 32739717
  • Read the article open access before September 18, 2020 via the Share Link here
  • See Figures here

91. Whitworth, C., Ciulli, A.*

Protein degraders extend their reach

Nature 2020, 584, 193-194

90. Simpson, L.M., Macartney, T.J., Nardin, A., Fulcher, L.J., Röth, S., Testa, A., Maniaci, C., Ciulli, A., Ganley, I.G., Sapkota, G.P.

Inducible Degradation of Target Proteins through a Tractable Affinity-Directed Protein Missile System

Cell Chem. Biol. 2020, 27 (9), 1164-1180.e5

89. Testa, A., Hughes, S.J.,  Lucas, X., Wright, J.E., Ciulli, A.*

Structure-Based Design of a Macrocyclic PROTAC

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1727-1734

  • PMID: 31746102 PMCID: PMC7004083
  • Pre-print posted at ChemRxiv on 22 July 2019; DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.8967941.v1
  • Selected as a “Hot paper” by the Editors of Angew. Chem. and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
  • See Figures here.
  • The coordinates and structure factors of the associated co-crystal structure of the ternary complex between VHL, Brd4-BD2 and macroPROTAC-1 is available in the PDB with accession code 6SIS.
  • Listed amongst the Most Accessed in the journal for the period 02/2020 to 01/2021 (April 2021)

88. Hassell-Hart, S., Runcie, A.C., Krojer, T., Doyle, J., Lineham, E., Ocasio, C.A., Neto, B.A.D., Fedorov, O., Marsh, G., Maple, H., Felix, R., Banks, R., Ciulli, A., Picaud, S., Filippakopoulos, P., von Delft, F., Brennan, P., Stewart, H.J.S., Chevassut, T.J., Walker, M., Austin, C., Morley, S., Spencer, J.

Synthesis and Biological Investigation of (+)-JD1, an Organometallic BET Bromodomain Inhibitor

Organometallics 2020, 39 (3), 408-416

87. Tovell, H., Testa, A., Zhou, H., Shpiro, N., Crafter, C., Ciulli, A.*, Alessi, D.R.*

Design and characterization of SGK3-PROTAC1, an isoform specific SGK3 kinase PROTAC degrader

ACS Chem. Biol. 2019, 14 (9), 2024-2034

  • See Figures here
  • Ranked Top amongst the Most Read Articles in the journal (1-month timeframe, Sept-Oct 2019)

86. Maniaci, C., Ciulli, A.*

Bifunctional chemical probes inducing protein-protein interactions

Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2019, 52, 145-156

  • Read the article open access until 2nd October 2019 via the Share Link here
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  • Ranked amongst Most Popular Articles in the journal

85. Ciulli, A.*, Farnaby, W.*

Protein degradation for drug discovery. [Editorial]

Drug Discov. Today Technol. 2019 Apr 31: 1-3

84. Farnaby W, Koegl M, Roy MJ, Whitworth C, Diers E, Trainor N, Zollman D, Steurer S, Karolyi-Oezguer J, Riedmueller C, Gmaschitz T, Wachter J, Dank C, Galant M, Sharps B, Rumpel K, Traxler E, Gerstberger T, Schnitzer R, Petermann O, Greb P, Weinstabl H, Bader G, Zoephel A, Weiss-Puxbaum A, Ehrenhöfer-Wölfer K, Wöhrle S, Boehmelt G, Rinnenthal J, Arnhof H, Wiechens N, Wu MY, Owen-Hughes T, Ettmayer P, Pearson M, McConnell DB*, Ciulli A.*

BAF complex vulnerabilities in cancer demonstrated via structure-based PROTAC design

Nat. Chem. Biol. 2019, 15 (7), 672-680

  • A Publisher Correction to this article was published on 02 July 2019
  • Featured in UoD and SLS News websites
  • Highlighted in EurekAlert, the Medical News, and mentioned by BioWorld
  • Read the article Open Access as SharedIt version here
  • See Figures here
  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the PDB. Accession codes of ternary complexes VCB:PROTAC1:SMARCA2 bromodomain (PDB 6HAY), VCB:PROTAC2:SMARCA2 bromodomain (PDB 6HAX), and VCB:PROTAC2:SMARCA4 bromodomain (PDB 6HR2), as well as a binary complex between SMARCA2 bromodomain and SMARCA-BD ligand (PDB 6HAZ)
  • Featured in a News & Views article by Daffyd Owen in Nature Chemical Biology
  • Featured in Biocentury Innovation
  • Highlighted in SynFacts
  • Check out Darryl McConnell’s video on Structure-Based SMARCA2 PROTAC Design here.
  • Our SMARCA2/4 degrader ACBI1 (and cis-ACBI1) are available from Boehringer Ingelheim’s OpnMe Portal: order for free, no strings attached! (Update July 2021: in vivo DMPK data are now available online)
  • Our VHL ligand “VH101, phenol” functionalized for PROTAC conjugation is available from Tocris (January 2020)
  • Find out more about ACBI1 in the Chemical Probes Portal

83. Kung, W.-W., Ramachandran, S., Makukhin, N., Bruno, E., Ciulli, A.*

Structural insights into substrate recognition by the SOCS2 E3 ubiquitin ligase

Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 2534

  • Pre-print posted at bioRxiv 470187; 14 November 2018 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/470187
  • Featured in SLS News
  • Read the SharedIt version here
  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the PDB. Accession codes of SOCS2:ElonginC:ElonginB in complex with EpoR (PDB 6I4X) and GHR peptides (PDBs 6I5J and 6I5N)

82. Tovell, H., Testa, A., Maniaci, C., Zhou, H., Prescott, A.R., Macartney, T., Ciulli, A.*, Alessi, D.R.*

Rapid and reversible knockdown of endogenously tagged endosomal proteins via an optimized HaloPROTAC degrader

ACS Chem. Biol. 2019, 14 (5), 882-892

81. Girardini, M., Maniaci, C., Hughes, S.J., Testa, A., Ciulli, A.*

Cereblon vs VHL: Hijacking E3 Ligases Against Each Other Using PROTACs

Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2019, 27 (12), 2466-2479

80. Popow, J., Arnhof, H., Bader, G., Berger, H., Ciulli, A., Covini, D., Dank, C., Gmaschitz, T., Greb, P., Karolyi-Özguer, J., Koegl, M., McConnell, D.B., Pearson, M., Rieger, M., Rinnenthal, J., Roessler, V., Schrenk, A., Spina, M., Steurer, S., Trainor, N., Traxler, E., Wieshofer, C., Zoephel, A., Ettmayer, P.

Highly Selective PTK2 Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras to Probe Focal Adhesion Kinase Scaffolding Functions

J. Med. Chem. 2019, 62 (5), 2508-2520

  • PTK2 PROTACs BI-0319 (VHL-based) and BI-3663 (CRBN-based) are available for free from the OpnMe Portal.

 

79. Roy, M.J., Winkler, S., Hughes, S.J., Whitworth, C., Galant, M., Farnaby, W., Rumpel, K., Ciulli, A.*

SPR-measured dissociation kinetics of PROTAC ternary complexes influence target degradation rate

ACS Chem. Biol. 2019, 14 (3), 361-368

 

78. Frost, J., Ciulli, A.*, Rocha, S.*

RNA-seq analysis of PHD and VHL inhibitors reveals differences and similarities to the hypoxia response. [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Res. 2019, 4:17 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15044.1)

 

77. Castro, G.V, Ciulli, A.*

Spy vs. spy: selecting the best reporter for 19F NMR competition experiments

Chem. Commun. 2019, 55 (10), 1482-1485

 

76. Zoppi, V., Hughes, S.J., Maniaci, C., Testa, A., Gmaschitz, T., Wieshofer, C., Koegl, M., Riching, K., Daniels, D.L., Spallarossa, A., and Ciulli, A.*

Iterative design and optimization of initially inactive Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) identify VZ185 as a potent, fast and selective von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)-based dual degrader probe of BRD9 and BRD7

J. Med. Chem. 2019, 62 (2), 699-726

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  • The coordinates and structure factors of the associated co-crystal structure of human BRD9 bromodomain in complex with PROTAC 5 is available in the PDB with accession code 6HM0
  • Listed as 1st Most Read Article in the journal (1-month timeframe, Jan 2019)
  • Highlighted in the blog Promega Connection: “A Roadmap for PROTAC Development”
  • Find out more about VZ185 in the Chemical Probes Portal
  • Our dual Brd7/9 degrader VZ185 is available from Tocris (October 2019)
  • The inactive epimer cis-VZ185 is also available from Tocris (April 2020)
  • Our VHL ligand “VH101, phenol” functionalized for PROTAC conjugation is available from Tocris (January 2020)

 

75. Aresu, L., Ferraresso, S., Marconato, L., Cascione, L., Napoli, S., Gaudio, E., Kwee, I., Tarantelli, C., Testa, A., Maniaci, C., Ciulli, A., Hillmann, P., Bohnacker, T., Wymann, M.P., Comazzi, S., Milan, M., Riondato, F., Dalla Rovere, G., Giantin, M., Giannuzzi, D., Bertoni, F.

New Molecular And Therapeutic Insights Into Canine Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Elucidates The Role Of The Dog As A Model For Human Disease

Haematologica 2019, 104 (6), e256-e259

74. Lucas, X., Van Molle, I., Ciulli, A.*

Surface probing by fragment-based screening and computational methods identifies ligandable pockets on the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) E3 ubiquitin ligase

J. Med. Chem. 2018, 61 (16), 7387-7393

  • See Figures here
  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the PDB. Accession codes of VCB in complex with MB235 (PDB 6GMN), MB756 (PDB 6GMQ), MB1200 (PDB 6GMX), and VCBH in complex with MB756 (PDB 6GMR)
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73. Testa, A., Lucas, X., Castro, G.V., Chan, K.-H., Wright, J.E., Runcie, A.C., Gadd, M.S., Harrison, W.T.A., Ko, E.-J., Fletcher, D., Ciulli, A.*

3-Fluoro-4-hydroxyprolines: Synthesis, conformational analysis and stereoselective recognition by the VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase for targeted protein degradation

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (29), 9299-9313

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  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the PDB, with accession codes: 6GFX, 6GFY and 6GFZ
  • Addition/Correction published (Web): April 24, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03833

 

72. Soares, P., Lucas, X., Ciulli, A.*

Thioamide substitution to probe the hydroxyproline recognition of VHL ligands

Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2018, 26 (11), 2992-2995

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  • The article is a contribution to the journal’s Special Issue for the 2018 Tetrahedron Young Investigators Award for Matthew Fuchter
  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the Protein DataBank, with accession codes: 6FMI, 6FMJ, and 6FMK
  • 4th Most Downloaded Article in the journal (June 2018)

 

71. Amato, A., Lucas, X., Bortoluzzi, A., Wright, D., Ciulli, A.*

Targeting ligandable pockets on plant homeodomain (PHD) zinc finger domains by a fragment-based approach

ACS Chem. Biol. 2018, 13 (4), 915-921

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  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the Protein DataBank, with accession codes: 6FHU, 6FKP, 6FI0, 6FAP, 6FHQ, and 6FI1

 

70. Runcie, A.C., Zengerle, M., Chan, K.-H., Testa, A., van Beurden, L., Baud, M.G.J., Epemolu, O., Ellis, L.C.J., Read, K.D., Coulthard, V., Brien, A. and Ciulli, A.*

Optimization of a “bump-and-hole” approach to allele-selective BET bromodomain inhibition

Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 2452-2468

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  • The coordinates and structure factors of our co-crystal structures are available in the Protein DataBank, with accession codes: 5O39, 5O3A, 5O3B, 5O3C, 5O3D, 5O3E, 5O3F, 5O3G, 5O3H and 5O3I