The present application provides bifunctional compounds of Formula (X):

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or an enantiomer, diastereomer, or stereoisomer thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, solvate, or prodrug thereof, which act as protein degradation inducing moieties for protein kinases. The present application also relates to methods for the targeted degradation of one or more protein kinases through the use of the bifunctional compounds that link a ubiquitin ligase-binding moiety to a ligand that is capable of binding to one or more protein kinases which can be utilized in the treatment of disorders modulated by protein kinases.

Several embodiments of the present disclosure relate to therapeutic compositions configured to target the liver of a subject and that are useful in the treatment or prevention of one or more of transplant rejection, autoimmune disease, food allergy, and immune response against a therapeutic agent. In several embodiments, the compositions are configured to target the liver and deliver antigens to which tolerance is desired. In several embodiments, the compositions are configured for clearance of a circulating protein or peptide or antibody associated with one or more of the above-mentioned maladies. Methods and uses of the compositions for induction of immune tolerance are also disclosed herein.

The invention disclosed herein relates to compounds, combinations, kits, and methods using same, for use in bioorthogonal release reactions. In particular, the compounds, combinations and kits of the invention can be used to achieve fast and efficient click release. Applications of the compounds, combinations, and kits of the invention include both in vitro and in vivo applications.

The invention concerns a Proteolysis Targeting Chimera (PROTAC) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for degradation of Aurora A-kinase in cells of a mammal which PROTAC has the chemical structure AAB-L-E3B, wherein AAB is a binding unit for Aurora A-kinase, L is a linker and E3B is a binding unit for E3-ubiquitin ligase Cereblon, wherein E3B comprises the structure of thalidomide or of one of its analogs lenalidomide, pomalidomide, and apremilast, wherein L comprises or consists of an alkyl ether residue or a polyalkyl ether residue or an alkyl ether residue or a polyalkyl ether residue in which at least one C—C bond is replaced by a C═C double bond, which polyalkyl ether residue has at least two ether groups or at least two ether groups in which one O-atom is replaced by an S-atom or a part of the O-atoms is replaced by S-atoms or wherein L comprises or consists of an alkyl thioether residue or a polyalkyl thioether residue or an alkyl thioether residue or a polyalkyl thioether residue in which at least one C—C bond is replaced by a C═C double bond, which polyalkyl thioether residue has at least two thioether groups, wherein L connects AAB and E3B via a chain of atoms having five to thirteen subsequently arranged atoms, wherein atoms of functional groups connecting the linker with AAB and E3B are not considered as part of said chain.

In one embodiment, the invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell which is conjugated to a bi-functional molecule which is specific for both an extracellular binding domain of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell and prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell contains a T cell signaling domain and the extracellular binding domain of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell is not specific for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). Compositions and methods of treatment using these CAR T cells are also disclosed.

Glycotargeting therapeutics are useful in the treatment of transplant rejection, autoimmune disease, food allergy, and immune response against a therapeutic agent.

Bivalent compounds composition comprises one or more of the bivalent compounds. The bivalent compound comprises a cyclic-AMP response element binding protein (CBP) and/or adenoviral EA binding protein of 300 kDa (P300) ligand (CBP/P3000 ligand) conjugated to a degradation tag. The method of using the bivalent compounds is treating certain disease in a subject in need thereof. The method of identifying such bivalent compounds is disclosed.

Glycotargeting therapeutics are useful in the treatment of transplant rejection, autoimmune disease, food allergy, and immune response against a therapeutic agent.

Disclosed is an advancement in provoked chemical cleavage. Thereby the invention provides the use of a diene as a chemically cleavable group attached to a Construct, and the use of a dienophile to provoke the release of the Construct by allowing the diene to react with a dienophile capable of undergoing an inverse electron demand Diels Alder reaction with the diene. The invention includes a kit for releasing a Construct C.sup.A bound to a Trigger T.sup.R, the kit having a tetrazine and a dienophile, wherein the Trigger is the tetrazine. The invention also includes the use of the formation of a pyridazine by reacting a tetrazine having a Construct C.sup.A bound thereto and a dienophile, as a chemical tool for the release, in a chemical, biological or physiological environment, of the Construct.

Disclosed is an advancement in provoked chemical cleavage. Thereby the invention provides the use of a diene as a chemically cleavable group attached to a Construct, and the use of a dienophile to provoke the release of the Construct by allowing the diene to react with a dienophile capable of undergoing an inverse electron demand Diels Alder reaction with the diene. The invention includes a kit for releasing a Construct C.sup.A bound to a Trigger T.sup.R, the kit having a tetrazine and a dienophile, wherein the Trigger is the tetrazine. The invention also includes the use of the formation of a pyridazine by reacting a tetrazine having a Construct C.sup.A bound thereto and a dienophile, as a chemical tool for the release, in a chemical, biological or physiological environment, of the Construct.