药物中的分子胶

Molecular glue in drugs

大多数药物的作用靶标是蛋白质,研究干预蛋白-蛋白相互作用的药物向来是具有挑战性的课题,分子胶和分子胶降解剂的发现开辟了新的途径。分子胶在结构上具有双功能的配体特征,介导两个蛋白的识别与结合,既可成为发现非可药性靶标的切入点,是化学生物学的有用工具,也可经药物化学的优化发展成为药物。本文以现有的分子胶药物或活性化合物为例简要叙述分子胶的特征。

Most small molecule drugs bind to enzymes,receptors or ion channels,which possess binding pocket for drug occupation.However,the study of drugs that interfere with protein-protein interactions has always been a challenging subject.The discovery of molecular glues and degraders has opened an avenue to tackle this issue.With the structural features of bifunctional ligand molecular glues mediate the recognition and binding of two proteins.As a useful tool for chemical biology molecular glue can not only help to find probes to undruggable targets,but also can be developed into drugs through structure optimization in medicinal chemistry.This minireview concisely describes the features of molecular glue using a few existing drugs or active compounds.