[HTML][HTML] The JAK-STAT pathway at 30: Much learned, much more to do

RL Philips, Y Wang, HJ Cheon, Y Kanno, M Gadina… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The discovery of the Janus kinase (JAK)-signal transducer and activator of transcription
(STAT) pathway arose from investigations of how cells respond to interferons (IFNs) …

Expanding chemical probe space: quality criteria for covalent and degrader probes

IV Hartung, J Rudolph, MM Mader… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Within druggable target space, new small-molecule modalities, particularly covalent
inhibitors and targeted degraders, have expanded the repertoire of medicinal chemists …

[HTML][HTML] Proteomic discovery of chemical probes that perturb protein complexes in human cells

MR Lazear, JR Remsberg, MG Jaeger, K Rothamel… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most human proteins lack chemical probes, and several large-scale and generalizable small-
molecule binding assays have been introduced to address this problem. How compounds …

Protein kinases: drug targets for immunological disorders

L Castelo-Soccio, H Kim, M Gadina… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Protein kinases play a major role in cellular activation processes, including signal
transduction by diverse immunoreceptors. Given their roles in cell growth and death and in …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of Janus kinase trans-activation

NA Caveney, RA Saxton, D Waghray, CR Glassman… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Janus kinases (JAKs) mediate signal transduction downstream of cytokine receptors.
Cytokine-dependent dimerization is conveyed across the cell membrane to drive JAK …

Proteomic Ligandability Maps of Spirocycle Acrylamide Stereoprobes Identify Covalent ERCC3 Degraders

Z Liu, JR Remsberg, H Li, E Njomen… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent chemistry coupled with activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) offers a versatile
way to discover ligands for proteins in native biological systems. Here, we describe a set of …

Assigning functionality to cysteines by base editing of cancer dependency genes

H Li, T Ma, JR Remsberg, SJ Won… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Covalent chemistry represents an attractive strategy for expanding the ligandability of the
proteome, and chemical proteomics has revealed numerous electrophile-reactive cysteines …

Allosteric TYK2 inhibition: Redefining autoimmune disease therapy beyond JAK1-3 inhibitors

LT Jensen, KE Attfield, M Feldmann, L Fugger - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
JAK inhibitors impact multiple cytokine pathways simultaneously, enabling high efficacy in
treating complex diseases such as cancers and immune-mediated disorders. However, their …

Emerging and Re-emerging Warheads for Targeted Covalent Inhibitors: An Update

L Hillebrand, XJ Liang, RAM Serafim… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent inhibitors and other types of covalent modalities have seen a revival in the past two
decades, with a variety of new targeted covalent drugs having been approved in recent …

Using a Function-First “Scout Fragment”-Based Approach to Develop Allosteric Covalent Inhibitors of Conformationally Dynamic Helicase Mechanoenzymes

JR Ramsey, PMM Shelton, TK Heiss… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Helicases, classified into six superfamilies, are mechanoenzymes that utilize energy derived
from ATP hydrolysis to remodel DNA and RNA substrates. These enzymes have key roles in …