Degradación de proteínas inducida por la luz con PROTACs fotoenjaulados

Gang Xue1, Kun Wang2, Danli Zhou1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Engineering Laboratory for Chiral Drug Synthesis, School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Graduate School , Peking University , Shenzhen 518055 , China.

Resumen

Los científicos desarrollaron quimeras fotolíticas dirigidas a la proteólisis (pc-PROTACs) que degradan las proteínas objetivo como Brd4 solo cuando se activan con luz. Esta nueva estrategia de degradación de proteínas inducible por luz ofrece nuevas herramientas para la investigación de enfermedades.

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