Altered RNA processing in cancer pathogenesis and therapy

EA Obeng, C Stewart, O Abdel-Wahab - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Major advances in our understanding of cancer pathogenesis and therapy have come from
efforts to catalog genomic alterations in cancer. A growing number of large-scale genomic …

Identification of potent, selective, and orally bioavailable small-molecule GSPT1/2 degraders from a focused library of cereblon modulators

G Nishiguchi, F Keramatnia, J Min… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Whereas the PROTAC approach to target protein degradation greatly benefits from rational
design, the discovery of small-molecule degraders relies mostly on phenotypic screening …

p63 is a cereblon substrate involved in thalidomide teratogenicity

T Asatsuma-Okumura, H Ando, M De Simone… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Cereblon (CRBN) is a primary target of thalidomide and mediates its multiple
pharmacological activities, including teratogenic and antimyeloma activities. CRBN …

Waste disposal—An attractive strategy for cancer therapy

J Salami, CM Crews - Science, 2017 - science.org
Targeted therapies for cancer are typically small molecules or monoclonal antibodies that
act by inhibiting the activity of specific proteins that drive tumor growth. Although many of …

Regulation of Wnt signaling through ubiquitination and deubiquitination in cancers

HB Park, JW Kim, KH Baek - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Wnt signaling pathway plays important roles in embryonic development, homeostatic
processes, cell differentiation, cell polarity, cell proliferation, and cell migration via the β …

Discovery of a dual WDR5 and Ikaros PROTAC degrader as an anti-cancer therapeutic

D Li, X Yu, J Kottur, W Gong, Z Zhang, AJ Storey… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract WD repeat domain 5 (WDR5), an integral component of the MLL/KMT2A lysine
methyltransferase complex, is critically involved in oncogenesis and represents an attractive …

The bone-marrow niche in MDS and MGUS: implications for AML and MM

IM Ghobrial, A Detappe, KC Anderson… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Several haematological malignancies, including multiple myeloma (MM) and acute myeloid
leukaemia (AML), have well-defined precursor states that precede the development of overt …

From discovery to bedside: targeting the ubiquitin system

IE Wertz, X Wang - Cell chemical biology, 2019 - cell.com
The ubiquitin/proteasome system is a primary conduit for selective intracellular protein
degradation. Since its discovery over 30 years ago, this highly regulated system continues to …

Translation termination factor GSPT1 is a phenotypically relevant off-target of heterobifunctional phthalimide degraders

M Ishoey, S Chorn, N Singh, MG Jaeger… - ACS Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein degradation is an emerging therapeutic strategy with a unique molecular
pharmacology that enables the disruption of all functions associated with a target. This is …

Discovery of an AKT degrader with prolonged inhibition of downstream signaling

I You, EC Erickson, KA Donovan, NA Eleuteri… - Cell chemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Summary The PI3K/AKT signaling cascade is one of the most commonly dysregulated
pathways in cancer, with over half of tumors exhibiting aberrant AKT activation. Although …