Transcription-associated cyclin-dependent kinases as targets and biomarkers for cancer therapy

J Chou, DA Quigley, TM Robinson, FY Feng… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Drugs targeting the cell cycle–regulatory cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4 and 6 have been
approved for the treatment of hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, and inhibitors …

[HTML][HTML] Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) and their role in diseases development–review

P Łukasik, M Załuski, I Gutowska - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are involved in many crucial processes, such as cell cycle
and transcription, as well as communication, metabolism, and apoptosis. The kinases are …

[HTML][HTML] An atlas of substrate specificities for the human serine/threonine kinome

JL Johnson, TM Yaron, EM Huntsman, A Kerelsky… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Protein phosphorylation is one of the most widespread post-translational modifications in
biology,. With advances in mass-spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics, 90,000 sites of …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic targeting of CDK12/CDK13 in triple-negative breast cancer

V Quereda, S Bayle, F Vena, SM Frydman… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Epigenetic regulation enables tumors to respond to changing environments during tumor
progression and metastases and facilitates treatment resistance. Targeting chromatin …

Cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors as anticancer drugs: Recent advances (2015–2019)

C Sánchez-Martínez, MJ Lallena… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sustained proliferative capacity and gene dysregulation are hallmarks of cancer. In
mammalian cells, cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) control critical cell cycle checkpoints …

Structural insights into the functional diversity of the CDK–cyclin family

DJ Wood, JA Endicott - Open biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since their characterization as conserved modules that regulate progression through the
eukaryotic cell cycle, cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) in higher eukaryotic cells are …

Discovery and resistance mechanism of a selective CDK12 degrader

B Jiang, Y Gao, J Che, W Lu, IH Kaltheuner… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) is an emerging therapeutic target due to its
role in regulating transcription of DNA-damage response (DDR) genes. However …

[HTML][HTML] CDK7 inhibitors as anticancer drugs

GP Sava, H Fan, RC Coombes, L Buluwela… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7), along with cyclin H and MAT1, forms the CDK-
activating complex (CAK), which directs progression through the cell cycle via T-loop …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of a molecular glue promoting CDK12-DDB1 interaction to trigger cyclin K degradation

L Lv, P Chen, L Cao, Y Li, Z Zeng, Y Cui, Q Wu, J Li… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Molecular-glue degraders mediate interactions between target proteins and components of
the ubiquitin-proteasome system to cause selective protein degradation. Here, we report a …

The pol II CTD: new twists in the tail

J Zaborowska, S Egloff, S Murphy - Nature structural & molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the large subunit of RNA polymerase (pol) II comprises
conserved heptad repeats, and post-translational modification of the CTD regulates …