List of Contributors ixPreface xvSection I Protein Folding and Quality Control in Drug Discovery 11 Epichaperomes as a Gateway to Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating Disease Through Rebalancing Protein-Protein Interaction Networks 3Chander S. Digwal, Sahil Sharma, Anand R. Santhaseela, Stephen D. Ginsberg, and Gabriela Chiosis2 Stability of Steroid Hormone Receptors: The Intersection of Proteostasis and Selective Degradation 27Zachary J. Gale-Day and Jason E. Gestwicki3 Pharmacological Chaperones: Therapeutic Potential for Diseases Resulting from GPCR Misfolding 65Suli-Anne Laurin, Sajjad Ahrari, and Michel BouvierSection II Protein Degradation and Clearance as Drug Targeting Opportunities 1354 Exploiting the Proteasome for Disease Treatment: From Dynamic Architecture to Vast Functions 137Gwen R. Buel, Xiuxiu Lu, and Kylie J. Walters5 Targeting the Ubiquitination Cascade for Drug Discovery 179Qi Liu, Gabriel LaPlante, and Wei Zhang6 Understanding, Targeting, and Hijacking Autophagy 227Hongguang Xia, Xiaoyan Xu, Mengxin Zhou, Manke Zhang, and Lingzhi Ye7 Deubiquitinating Enzymes: From Undruggable Targets to Emerging Opportunities 249Xiaoxi Liu, Laura Doherty, Alejandra Felix, and Sara BuhrlageSection III Redirecting Protein Degradation Processes for Drug Development 2838 History of IMiDs and Protein Degradation as a Pharmacological Modality 285Junichi Yamamoto, Tomoko Asatsuma-Okumura, Takumi Ito, Yuki Yamaguchi, and Hiroshi Handa9 PROTAC Degraders: Mechanism, Recent Advances, and Future Challenges 317Alessio Ciulli and Oliver Hsia10 Biochemical Principles of Targeted Protein Degradation 357Roman V. Agafonov, Richard W. Deibler, William A. Elam, Joe S. Patel, and Stewart L. Fisher11 Pharmacology of PROTAC Degrader Molecules: Optimizing for In Vivo Performance 385Andy Pike, Sofia Guzzetti, Pablo M. Morentin Gutierrez, and James S. ScottSection IV Emerging Technologies and Future Opportunities 41912 Proximity-Inducing Bifunctional Molecules Beyond PROTACs 421Sophia Lai, Ashley E. Modell, and Amit Choudhary13 Strategies for Tag-Based Protein Control 447Behnam Nabet, Nathanael S. Gray, and Fleur M. Ferguson14 Targeted Protein Degradation in Antiviral Drug Discovery 465Mélissanne de Wispelaere and Priscilla L. Yang15 Beyond Inhibition: Ligand-Based Pharmacological Exploration as a Strategy Toward New Targets and Modalities 491Milka Kostic and Lyn H. JonesIndex 519
Milka Kostic, PhD, is the Program Director for Chemical Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and her interests include advocating for the importance of chemical biology as a critical link in the chemistry-biology-medicine continuum.Lyn H. Jones, PhD, is currently Director of the Center for Protein Degradation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and his interests include using chemogenomics and chemoproteomics to advance new therapeutic modalities.