Inhibitors of the PLK1 polo-box domain: drug design strategies and therapeutic opportunities in cancer

JM Stafford, MD Wyatt, C McInnes - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… , PLKs contain a unique C terminal structure involved in Ser-pSer/pThr binding, called the
Polo box domain (PBD), comprising one or two polo boxes … Their PBDs contain two polo boxes

The Role of Polo-like Kinase 1 (PLK1) in Mammalian Meiotic Centrosome Duplication and Separation

Y Zhang - 2019 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
… and a C-terminal structure called the polo box domain (PBD) that is … view of the most frequently
studied aspects of PLK functions. … Polo Boxes Come out of the Crypt: A New View of PLK

PLK4: a promising target for cancer therapy

Y Zhao, X Wang - Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2019 - Springer
… The Polo-like kinases (PLKs) are a family of serine/threonine kinases that play a critical
role … region contains a single Polo-box and a central domain called the “cryptic Polo-box” (CPB). …

The role of polo-like kinase 4 (PLK4) in chromosome segregation and genome maintenance in mammalian meiosis

M Jamabo - 2016 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
… 9 FIGURE 7: PLK functions and localizations in mammalian … In contrast, the PLK4 polo
box and its crypto polo box do not … motif, which is conserved all through evolution (Figure 8). …

Targeting Polo-Like Kinase 1 in Pediatric Leukemia

O Goroshchuk - 2020 - search.proquest.com
… the first to describe and implement a concept of a stem cell as a … a polo-box domain (PBD)
which is a unique feature of the Plk … that our bodies developed evolutionary to silence the alien …

Revisiting centrioles in nematodes—historic findings and current topics

A Schwarz, P Sankaralingam, KF O'Connell… - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
… question of how the centrosome evolved and took its shape was, … thought to lack the cryptic
polo box (CPB) and polo box 3 (PB3) … Thus, while ZYG-1/Plk-4 is recruited in all three species …

Elucidating the role of centrosomal proteins during meiotic DNA repair

ML Reategui Via y Rada - 2018 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
… Given that the reductional meiotic program has evolved to … The discovery of polo-like
kinases (PLKs) followed shortly. … PBDs are a tandem set of ~100 amino acid polo boxes

Discovery of the First Potent, Selective, and In Vivo Efficacious Polo-like Kinase 4 Proteolysis Targeting Chimera Degrader for the Treatment of TRIM37-Amplified …

Y Sun, Y Xue, P Sun, S Mu, H Liu, Y Sun… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
… (3−5) PLK4, one of the five members of PLKs, also known as … the kinase activity, a “polo-box
(PB)” domain necessary for … ), a rapidly emerging strategy, has evolved as a novel chemical …

Centrosome structure and biogenesis: Variations on a theme?

SC Jana - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… provided a comprehensive view of the … view of the PCM ultrastructure has remained opaque.
Prior to the sub-diffraction-limited-resolution fluorescence imaging era, the accepted view

Therapeutic potential of targeting polo-like kinase 4

Q Lei, Q Yu, N Yang, Z Xiao, C Song, R Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
… Kinase domains are shown in orange, the polo-box domains in … perspective of PLK4 as a
molecular target for cancer therapy. … PLKs originate from their family ancestral member, the polo/…