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Overview

Craig M. Crews is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has focused research efforts primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work has a strong emphasis on subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Hematology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered in Crews's research include:

  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
  • Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • CAR-T Cell Therapy Research
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research

Recent significant papers by Crews and colleagues include:

  • PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue, 2022, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras as Therapeutics and Tools for Biological Discovery, 2020, Cell
  • PROTACs: past, present and future, 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Protein degraders enter the clinic - a new approach to cancer therapy, 2023, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • PROTACs: An Emerging Therapeutic Modality in Precision Medicine, 2020, Cell Chemical Biology

The frequent coauthors who have worked with Crews on multiple publications include John Hines, Saul Jaime-Figueroa, Kusal T. G. Samarasinghe, Dhanusha A. Nalawansha, and Zhenyi Hu.

Crews's research has been published in a range of venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Chemical Biology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Cancer Research, and ACS Central Science.

Best Publications

  • Protacs: chimeric molecules that target proteins to the Skp1-Cullin-F box complex for ubiquitination and degradation.

    Kathleen M. Sakamoto;Kyung B. Kim;Akiko Kumagai;Frank Mercurio

  • The primary structure of MEK, a protein kinase that phosphorylates the ERK gene product

    Craig M. Crews;Alessandro Alessandrini;Raymond L. Erikson

  • Epoxomicin, a potent and selective proteasome inhibitor, exhibits in vivo antiinflammatory activity

    Lihao Meng;Royce Mohan;Benjamin H. B. Kwok;Mikael Elofsson

  • Induced protein degradation: an emerging drug discovery paradigm

    Ashton C. Lai;Craig M. Crews

  • Catalytic in vivo protein knockdown by small-molecule PROTACs

    Daniel P Bondeson;Alina Mares;Ian E D Smith;Eunhwa Ko

  • Hijacking the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Cereblon to Efficiently Target BRD4

    Jing Lu;Yimin Qian;Martha Altieri;Hanqing Dong

  • The anti-angiogenic agent fumagillin covalently binds and inhibits the methionine aminopeptidase, MetAP-2

    Ny Sin;Lihao Meng;Margaret Q. W. Wang;James J. Wen

  • PROTAC-induced BET protein degradation as a therapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer.

    Kanak Raina;Jing Lu;Yimin Qian;Martha Altieri

  • Lessons in PROTAC Design from Selective Degradation with a Promiscuous Warhead

    Daniel P. Bondeson;Blake E. Smith;George M. Burslem;Alexandru D. Buhimschi

  • Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras as Therapeutics and Tools for Biological Discovery

    George M. Burslem;Craig M. Crews

  • Molecular Understanding and Modern Application of Traditional Medicines: Triumphs and Trials

    Timothy W. Corson;Craig M. Crews

  • Targeted protein degradation: expanding the toolbox.

    Matthieu Schapira;Matthieu Schapira;Matthew F Calabrese;Alex N Bullock;Craig M Crews

  • The anti-inflammatory natural product parthenolide from the medicinal herb Feverfew directly binds to and inhibits IkappaB kinase

    Benjamin H.B. Kwok;Brian Koh;MacKevin I. Ndubuisi;Mikael Elofsson

  • PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) - Past, Present and Future

    Mariell Pettersson;Craig M. Crews

  • The Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway and Proteasome Inhibitors

    Jayhyuk Myung;Kyung Bo Kim;Craig M. Crews

  • Modular PROTAC Design for the Degradation of Oncogenic BCR-ABL

    Ashton C. Lai;Momar Toure;Doris Hellerschmied;Jemilat Salami

  • Extracellular signals and reversible protein phosphorylation: What to Mek of it all

    Craig M. Crews;Raymond L. Erikson

  • Small-Molecule PROTACS: New Approaches to Protein Degradation

    Momar Toure;Craig M. Crews

  • The Advantages of Targeted Protein Degradation Over Inhibition: An RTK Case Study

    George M. Burslem;Blake E. Smith;Ashton C. Lai;Saul Jaime-Figueroa

  • Structure of human methionine aminopeptidase-2 complexed with fumagillin.

    Shenping Liu;Joanne Widom;Christopher W. Kemp;Craig M. Crews

Frequent Co-Authors

Jing Wang
Jing Wang The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kapil N. Bhalla
Kapil N. Bhalla The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Alessio Ciulli
Alessio Ciulli University of Dundee
Kathleen M. Sakamoto
Kathleen M. Sakamoto Stanford University
Raymond J. Deshaies
Raymond J. Deshaies California Institute of Technology
Raymond L. Erikson
Raymond L. Erikson Harvard University
William L. Jorgensen
William L. Jorgensen Yale University
Kevan M. Shokat
Kevan M. Shokat University of California, San Francisco
Stefan Somlo
Stefan Somlo Yale University
Kevin Coleman
Kevin Coleman Rothamsted Research

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