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BIFUNCTIONAL DEGRADERS COMPRISING ELECTROPHILIC PROTACS THAT ENGAGE DCAF1 AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME

Application US20260083722A1 Kind: A1 Mar 26, 2026

Inventors

Benjamin F. CRAVATT, Yongfeng TAO, Xiaoyu ZHANG, Dave REMILLARD, Ekaterina VINOGRADOVA, Minoru YOKOYAMA, Bruno MELILLO, Stuart SCHREIBER

Abstract

Disclosed are bifunctional degraders comprising electrophilic PRO-TACs that engage DCAF1 and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. The bifunctional degraders are of Formula A-B-C wherein, A is a ligand to a protein of interest, B is a linker that is a bond or a chemical linker that is chemically linked to A and C, and C is a ligand to the E3 ligase substrate receptor DCAF1, wherein the protein of interest is any protein having a ligand that can form a covalent bond with the linker B; and C comprises an azetidinyl acrylamide that forms a covalent bond with C1113 of DCAF1 through a Michael addition reaction.

CPC Classifications

A61K 31/4709 A61K 31/4725 A61K 31/501 A61K 31/506 A61K 31/541 A61K 31/551 A61K 31/635 A61K 47/545 A61K 47/64 C07D 401/12 C07D 401/14 C07D 405/14

Filing Date

2023-05-19

Application No.

18866614