Development of a BCL-xL and BCL-2 dual degrader with improved anti-leukemic activity,

Dongwen Lv, Pratik Pal, Xingui Liu, Yannan Jia, Dinesh Thummuri, Peiyi Zhang, Wanyi Hu, Jing Pei, Qi Zhang, Shuo Zhou, Sajid Khan, Xuan Zhang, Nan Hua, Qingping Yang, Sebastian Arango, Weizhou Zhang, Digant Nayak, Shaun K. Olsen, Susan T. Weintraub, Robert HromasMarina Konopleva, Yaxia Yuan, Guangrong Zheng, Daohong Zhou

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PROteolysis-TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) have emerged as an innovative drug development platform. However, most PROTACs have been generated empirically because many determinants of PROTAC specificity and activity remain elusive. Through computational modelling of the entire NEDD8-VHL Cullin RING E3 ubiquitin ligase (CRLVHL)/PROTAC/BCL-xL/UbcH5B(E2)-Ub/RBX1 complex, we find that this complex can only ubiquitinate the lysines in a defined band region on BCL-xL. Using this approach to guide our development of a series of ABT263-derived and VHL-recruiting PROTACs, we generate a potent BCL-xL and BCL-2 (BCL-xL/2) dual degrader with significantly improved antitumor activity against BCL-xL/2-dependent leukemia cells. Our results provide experimental evidence that the accessibility of lysines on a target protein plays an important role in determining the selectivity and potency of a PROTAC in inducing protein degradation, which may serve as a conceptual framework to guide the future development of PROTACs.

Idioma originalEnglish (US)
Número de artículo6896
PublicaciónNature communications
Volumen12
N.º1
DOI
EstadoPublished - dic 2021
Publicado de forma externa

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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