Target protein degradation by protacs: A budding cancer treatment strategy

D Choudhary, A Kaur, P Singh, G Chaudhary… - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the most common causes of death. So, its lethal effect increases with time.
Near about hundreds of cancers are known in humans. Cancer treatment is done to cure or …

Proteostasis in aging-associated ocular disease

J Weinberg, M Gaur, A Swaroop, A Taylor - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Vision impairment has devastating consequences for the quality of human life. The cells and
tissues associated with the visual process must function throughout one's life span and …

Friend or foe: RIG-I like receptors and diseases

J Song, M Li, C Li, K Liu, Y Zhu, H Zhang - Autoimmunity Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs), which are pivotal sensors of
RNA virus invasions, mediate the transcriptional induction of genes encoding type I …

STING-dependent interferon signatures restrict osteoclast differentiation and bone loss in mice

S MacLauchlan, P Kushwaha, A Tai… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is a key mediator of type-I interferon (IFN-I) signaling
in response to a variety of stimuli, but the contribution of STING to homeostatic processes is …

Telomere-related gene risk model for prognosis and drug treatment efficiency prediction in kidney cancer

SC Li, ZK Jia, JJ Yang, X Ning - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Kidney cancer is one of the most common urological cancers worldwide, and kidney renal
clear cell cancer (KIRC) is the major histologic subtype. Our previous study found that von …

The functional roles of ISG15/ISGylation in cancer

Y Yuan, H Qin, H Li, W Shi, L Bao, S Xu, J Yin, L Zheng - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The protein ISG15 encoded by interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) 15 is the first identified
member of the ubiquitin-like protein family and exists in the form of monomers and …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting autophagy and beyond: deconvoluting the complexity of Beclin-1 from biological function to cancer therapy

J Ye, J Zhang, Y Zhu, L Wang, X Jiang, B Liu… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Beclin-1 is the firstly-identified mammalian protein of the autophagy machinery, which
functions as a molecular scaffold for the assembly of PI3KC3 (class III phosphatidylinositol 3 …

Coronaviral PLpro proteases and the immunomodulatory roles of conjugated versus free Interferon Stimulated Gene product-15 (ISG15)

IM Gold, N Reis, F Glaser, MH Glickman - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubls) share some features with ubiquitin (Ub) such as their globular
3D structure and the ability to attach covalently to other proteins. Interferon Stimulated Gene …

[HTML][HTML] DRD4 alleviates acute kidney injury by suppressing ISG15/NOX4 axis-associated oxidative stress

Y Gao, X Lu, G Zhang, C Liu, S Sun, W Mao, G Jiang… - Redox Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a life-threatening health condition associated with increasing
morbidity and mortality. Despite extensive research on the mechanisms underlying AKI …

Intestinal Immune Imbalance is an Alarm in the Development of IBD

C Hu, S Liao, L Lv, C Li, Z Mei - Mediators of inflammation, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Immune regulation plays a crucial role in human health and disease. Inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) is a chronic relapse bowel disease with an increasing incidence worldwide …