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Targeted Degradation of the Oncogenic Phosphatase SHP2.

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In this paper, a SHP2 PROTAC was developed by conjugating RMC-4550 with pomalidomide using a PEG linker, which was shown to be highly selective for SHP 2 in leukemic cells at submicromolar concentrations, inhibits MAPK signaling and suppresses cancer cell growth.
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SHP2 is a protein tyrosine phosphatase that plays a critical role in the full activation of the Ras-MAPK pathway upon stimulation of receptor tyrosine kinases, which are frequently amplified or mutationally activated in human cancer. In addition, activating mutations in SHP2 result in developmental disorders and hematologic malignancies. Several allosteric inhibitors have been developed for SHP2 and are currently in clinical trials. Here, we report the development and evaluation of a SHP2 PROTAC created by conjugating RMC-4550 with pomalidomide using a PEG linker. This molecule is highly selective for SHP2, induces degradation of SHP2 in leukemic cells at submicromolar concentrations, inhibits MAPK signaling, and suppresses cancer cell growth. SHP2 PROTACs serve as an alternative strategy for targeting ERK-dependent cancers and are useful tools alongside allosteric inhibitors for dissecting the mechanisms by which SHP2 exerts its oncogenic activity.

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Discovery of a first-in-class CDK2 selective degrader for AML differentiation therapy.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed first-in-class CDK2-targeted proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which promoted rapid and potent CDK 2 degradation in different cell lines without comparable degradation of other targets.
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Degradation of target protein in living cells by small-molecule proteolysis inducer

TL;DR: A potentially general method of degrading any targeted proteins by the ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in living cells, using small-molecule proteolytic inducer (SMPI).
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Structural and Functional Consequences of Three Cancer-Associated Mutations of the Oncogenic Phosphatase SHP2

TL;DR: X-ray crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering, and biochemistry are combined to elucidate structural and mechanistic features of three cancer-associated SHP2 variants harboring single point mutations within the N-SH2:PTP interdomain autoinhibitory interface.
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