iTAG an optimized IMiD-induced degron for targeted protein degradation in human and murine cells.

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Authors

Bouguenina, H
Nicolaou, S
Le Bihan, Y-V
Bowling, EA
Calderon, C
Caldwell, JJ
Harrington, B
Hayes, A
McAndrew, PC
Mitsopoulos, C
Sialana, FJ
Scarpino, A
Stubbs, M
Thapaliya, A
Tyagi, S
Wang, HZ
Wood, F
Burke, R
Raynaud, F
Choudhary, J
van Montfort, RLM
Sadok, A
Westbrook, TF
Collins, I
Chopra, R

Document Type

Journal Article

Date

2023-07-21

Date Accepted

2023-06-01

Abstract

To address the limitation associated with degron based systems, we have developed iTAG, a synthetic tag based on IMiDs/CELMoDs mechanism of action that improves and addresses the limitations of both PROTAC and previous IMiDs/CeLMoDs based tags. Using structural and sequence analysis, we systematically explored native and chimeric degron containing domains (DCDs) and evaluated their ability to induce degradation. We identified the optimal chimeric iTAG(DCD23 60aa) that elicits robust degradation of targets across cell types and subcellular localizations without exhibiting the well documented "hook effect" of PROTAC-based systems. We showed that iTAG can also induce target degradation by murine CRBN and enabled the exploration of natural neo-substrates that can be degraded by murine CRBN. Hence, the iTAG system constitutes a versatile tool to degrade targets across the human and murine proteome.

Citation

iScience, 2023, 26 (7), pp. 107059 -

Source Title

iScience

Publisher

CELL PRESS

ISSN

2589-0042

eISSN

2589-0042
2589-0042

Research Team

Medicinal Chemistry 4
Prote & Metabolomics Fac
Hit Discov Struct Design
Clinical Pharma & Trials

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