LYTAC Degradation Technology Development

Targeted protein degradation is an important technology that has been rapidly developed in the last decade to interfere with protein function. As a leading CRO, BOC Sciences is dedicated to expanding innovative degradation mechanisms and targets. Beside the most studied ubiquitination-proteasome system, we explore another important protein degradation system in eukaryotic cells, the lysosomal degradation system. LYTAC (lysosome-targeting chimera) is an degradation technology that utilizes lysosomes. We can offer LYTAC development service to provide new research tools for targeted drug discovery. Introduction Lysosomal degradation pathway has a wide range of applicability, including but not limited to proteins, protein multimers, organelles, etc. Lysosome-targeting chimera (LYTAC) is a protein degradation technology using endosomal-lysosomal system. Similar to the structure of PROTAC, LYTAC is a bifunctional molecule consisting of two binding ligands, one of which is an oligosaccharide structure targeting the lysosome-targeting receptors (LTRs) on the cell surface, and the other could be an antibody, peptide or small molecule targeting the protein of interest (POI), which are chemical conjugated by a linker. Mechanism of action of LYTAC First, the POI ligand of LYTAC binds to the extracellular domain of the POI, while the oligosaccharide structure binds to the LTRs on the cell surface, forming the LTRs-LYTAC-POI ternary complex; Sequentially, the complex enters the cell via clathrin mediated endocytosis (CME), and passes sequentially through the vesicles to the early endosome (EE) and late endosome (LE); With endosome acidification, the LTRs in the ternary complex dissociates and returns to the cell membrane or Golgi apparatus, and the binding of LYTAC and the target protein is continued to be transported to the lysosome for degradation.