Journal
ANTIBIOTICS-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11121717
Keywords
PROTAC; targeted proteolysis; anti-bacterial drugs; anti-viral drugs
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Funding
- Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi [BT/RLF/Re-entry/44/2018]
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi [CRG/2020/001213]
- Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) [54/14/03/2022-BRNS/10207]
- VIT SEED GRANT 2020-2021, 2021-2023
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Targeted protein degradation, through the use of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), is a promising new approach in drug discovery for selectively eliminating disease-associated proteins. It has significant potential in the field of cancer research and shows promise as a new weapon against pathogenic viruses and bacteria.
Targeted protein degradation is a new aspect in the field of drug discovery. Traditionally, developing an antibiotic includes tedious and expensive processes, such as drug screening, lead optimization, and formulation. Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are new-generation drugs that use the proteolytic mechanism to selectively degrade and eliminate proteins involved in human diseases. The application of PROTACs is explored immensely in the field of cancer, and various PROTACs are in clinical trials. Thus, researchers have a profound interest in pursuing PROTAC technology as a new weapon to fight pathogenic viruses and bacteria. This review highlights the importance of antimicrobial PROTACs and other similar PROTAC-like techniques to degrade pathogenic target proteins (i.e., viral/bacterial proteins). These techniques can perform specific protein degradation of the pathogenic protein to avoid resistance caused by mutations or abnormal expression of the pathogenic protein. PROTAC-based antimicrobial therapeutics have the advantage of high specificity and the ability to degrade undruggable proteins, such as nonenzymatic and structural proteins.
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