Transformative Small Molecule Glue Discovery & Design
AlloGlues® are small molecule monovalent glues that induce or enhance specific protein-protein interactions by reprogramming protein functions and impacting disease targets through either proximal or distal allosteric mechanisms, including targets once considered “undruggable”. Outcomes of induced proximity include target protein degradation, inhibition, modulation or stabilization. Our fully integrated platform replaces binary and serendipitous discovery with systematic, large-scale discovery, design and optimization of diverse monovalent glues.
Key Features of the Allo-Glue® Platform
The platform integrates multiple technologies that enable molecular interaction complexity to be studied in several dimensions, including:
General drug discovery applications: the platform can support drug discovery and optimization paradigms across virtually any small molecule and target type. This includes genome/proteome-scale assessment of drug-protein interactions.
Distal mechanism of action
Allo-Glue small molecule can bind to a specific protein and promote target recruitment distal to its binding site in an allosteric manner
Proximal mechanism of action
Allo-Glue molecule complex may also bind to a specific protein and promote target recruitment proximal to its binding site (and directly participate in interaction)
Possible outcomes on targets
Allo-Glue molecule-induced interaction can lead to several possible biological effects on target proteins
Reprogramming protein functions
Allo-Glues can reach and impact disease targets in numerous ways
Monovalent glues can trigger protein-protein interactions by distal and proximal mechanisms of action. Reprogramming protein functions in this manner can lead to diverse functional outcomes, including target modulation, inhibition, or degradation by invoking cellular machineries specialized in natural disposition of proteins in cells to maintain homeostasis
Screening platform
The Orionis platform enables quantitative ligase-centric discovery of glue targets across ~20,000 human proteins, and target-centric discovery using complex chemical libraries
Molecular interaction fingerprints
Genome-scale and select target panel fingerprints provide unique perspectives in glue discovery and form the basis for numerical modeling and chemistry optimization