Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged as a key strategy for the development of small-molecule therapeutics, leveraging clever chemistries to induce the specific degradation of protein targets. Early molecular glues relied on the serendipitous discovery of molecules capable of modulating the stability of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). In 2001, the initial report of Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) introduced a transformative framework: heterobifunctional molecules designed such that a moiety binding a protein target is connected via flexible linker to an E3...
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Small molecule engagement of the GLP-1 receptor using affinity selection mass spectrometry (ASMS) proved to be a productive starting point for drug discovery, with a 50,000 compound diversity screen identifying three structurally distinct hit series that could be expanded and characterized in depth. Hit expansion across 52 analogs established clear structure-activity relationships within 3 scaffolds.
