After making a bunch of degraders (most not shown here), we arrive at NK250 and NK266 ("Kurt Cubane"), two highly potent USP7 degraders in HiBiT and immune-based assays. NK250, is a faster degrader which we could correlate to its ability to form a stable ternary complex between USP7 and VHL.
Lastly, a huge thank you to my supervisor Dr. @maltegersch.bsky.social for his guidance and support, as well as the entire Gersch team.
I am very glad to share this story, but even more excited for whats to come in the (near) future, so stay tuned, we are just getting started!
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