Protein kinase CK2: a potential therapeutic target for diverse human diseases

C Borgo, C D'Amore, S Sarno, M Salvi… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
CK2 is a constitutively active Ser/Thr protein kinase, which phosphorylates hundreds of
substrates, controls several signaling pathways, and is implicated in a plethora of human …

A new view into the regulation of purine metabolism: the purinosome

AM Pedley, SJ Benkovic - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Other than serving as building blocks for DNA and RNA, purine metabolites provide a cell
with the necessary energy and cofactors to promote cell survival and proliferation. A …

Lenalidomide induces ubiquitination and degradation of CK1α in del (5q) MDS

J Krönke, EC Fink, PW Hollenbach, KJ MacBeth… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Lenalidomide is a highly effective treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with
deletion of chromosome 5q (del (5q)). Here, we demonstrate that lenalidomide induces the …

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

GB Ehret, T Ferreira, DI Chasman, AU Jackson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ
damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 …

Regulation of sympathetic vasomotor activity by the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in normotensive and hypertensive states

RA Dampney, LC Michelini, DP Li… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is a unique and important brain region
involved in the control of cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and other physiological functions …

Phosphorylation of FAM134C by CK2 controls starvation-induced ER-phagy

G Di Lorenzo, F Iavarone, M Maddaluno… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Selective degradation of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via autophagy (ER-phagy) is
initiated by ER-phagy receptors, which facilitate the incorporation of ER fragments into …

Restoration of CFTR function in patients with cystic fibrosis carrying the F508del-CFTR mutation

DD Stefano, VR Villella, S Esposito, A Tosco, A Sepe… - Autophagy, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Restoration of BECN1/Beclin 1-dependent autophagy and depletion of SQSTM1/p62 by
genetic manipulation or autophagy-stimulatory proteostasis regulators, such as cystamine …

In silico investigations identified Butyl Xanalterate to competently target CK2α (CSNK2A1) for therapy of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

SA Alsagaby, D Iqbal, I Ahmad, H Patel, SA Mir… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is an incurable malignancy of B-cells. In this study,
bioinformatics analyses were conducted to identify possible pathogenic roles of CK2α …

Casein kinase 1 dynamics underlie substrate selectivity and the PER2 circadian phosphoswitch

JM Philpott, R Narasimamurthy, CG Ricci, AM Freeberg… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Post-translational control of PERIOD stability by Casein Kinase 1δ and ε (CK1) plays a key
regulatory role in metazoan circadian rhythms. Despite the deep evolutionary conservation …

Heat-induced inhibition of phosphorylation of the stress-protective transcription factor DREB2A promotes thermotolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana

J Mizoi, N Kanazawa, S Kidokoro, F Takahashi… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Plants have evolved complex systems to rapidly respond to severe stress conditions, such
as heat, cold, and dehydration. Dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 2A …