Targeting protein kinase CK2 suppresses prosurvival signaling pathways and growth of glioblastoma

Y Zheng, BC McFarland, D Drygin, H Yu, SL Bellis… - Clinical cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: Gliomas are the most frequently occurring primary malignancies in the brain, and
glioblastoma is the most aggressive of these tumors. Protein kinase CK2 is composed of two …

Novel players in multiple myeloma pathogenesis: role of protein kinases CK2 and GSK3

F Piazza, S Manni, G Semenzato - Leukemia research, 2013 - Elsevier
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable plasma cell malignancy, which causes a significant
morbidity due to organ damage and bone tissue destruction. In recent years, novel drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Protein kinase CK2 inhibition down modulates the NF-κB and STAT3 survival pathways, enhances the cellular proteotoxic stress and synergistically boosts …

S Manni, A Brancalion, E Mandato, LQ Tubi, A Colpo… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
CK2 is a pivotal pro-survival protein kinase in multiple myeloma that may likely impinge on
bortezomib-regulated cellular pathways. In the present study, we investigated CK2 …

Inhibition of CK 2α down‐regulates Notch1 signalling in lung cancer cells

S Zhang, H Long, YL Yang, Y Wang… - Journal of cellular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Protein kinase CK 2 is frequently elevated in a variety of human cancers. The Notch1
signalling pathway has been implicated in stem cell maintenance and its aberrant activation …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of protein kinase CK2 with the clinical-grade small ATP-competitive compound CX-4945 or by RNA interference unveils its role in acute myeloid …

L Quotti Tubi, C Gurrieri, A Brancalion… - Journal of hematology & …, 2013 - Springer
Background The involvement of protein kinase CK2 in sustaining cancer cell survival could
have implications also in the resistance to conventional and unconventional therapies …

CX-4945, a selective inhibitor of casein kinase-2 (CK2), exhibits anti-tumor activity in hematologic malignancies including enhanced activity in chronic lymphocytic …

RC Prins, RT Burke, JW Tyner, BJ Druker, MM Loriaux… - Leukemia, 2013 - nature.com
Relapsed and refractory lymphoid and myeloid malignancies are often characterized by
progressive resistance to standard chemotherapy as well as poor long-term outcomes …

CK2 suppression of apoptosis and its implication in cancer biology and therapy

JH Trembley, JJ Wu, GM Unger, BT Kren… - Protein kinase …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Protein kinase CK2 comprises two catalytic subunits (42 kDa α and 38 kDa α′) linked
through two regulatory subunits (28 kDa β) existing as αα′ β2 or α2β2 or α′ 2β2 …

Diversity-oriented synthesis of pyrazolo [4, 3-b] indoles by gold-catalysed three-component annulation: application to the development of a new class of CK2 inhibitors

Z Hou, S Oishi, Y Suzuki, T Kure, I Nakanishi… - Organic & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Pyrazolo [4, 3-b] indole derivatives have been designed as novel CK2 inhibitor compounds
based on the binding mode analysis of a previously reported phenylpyrazole-type CK2 …

Structural bases of protein kinase CK2 function and inhibition

K Niefind, R Battistutta - Protein kinase CK2, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Protein kinase CK2—more precisely its catalytic subunit CK2α—is one of 518 protein
kinases of the human kinome (Manning et al., 2002). Like all protein kinases, it catalyzes the …

Addiction of Cancer Cells to CK2: Survival at All Costs or Achilles' Heel?

M Ruzzene - Protein kinase CK2, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
CK2, probably the most pleiotropic protein kinase (Salvi et al., 2009), phosphorylates so
many proteins so it can be considered virtually involved in all cellular processes, such as …