PROTACs

Recent advances in epigenetic proteolysis targeting chimeras (Epi-PROTACs)

PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules that trigger the poly-ubiquitination of the protein of interest (POI) inducing its degradation via the recruitment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, thus suppressing the POI's intracellular levels and indirectly all its functions. Recently, one of the fields where the protein knockdown induced by PROTACs has demonstrated to serve as a promising biochemical tool and to provide new opportunities for drug discovery is the epigenetics (epi-PROTACs).

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