Targeting the RAS/RAF/MAPK pathway for cancer therapy: from mechanism to clinical studies

ME Bahar, HJ Kim, DR Kim - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Metastatic dissemination of solid tumors, a leading cause of cancer-related mortality,
underscores the urgent need for enhanced insights into the molecular and cellular …

Activation and function of the MAPKs and their substrates, the MAPK-activated protein kinases

M Cargnello, PP Roux - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) regulate diverse cellular programs by
relaying extracellular signals to intracellular responses. In mammals, there are more than a …

Urea derivatives in modern drug discovery and medicinal chemistry

AK Ghosh, M Brindisi - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The urea functionality is inherent to numerous bioactive compounds, including a variety of
clinically approved therapies. Urea containing compounds are increasingly used in …

Organosilicon molecules with medicinal applications

AK Franz, SO Wilson - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
The incorporation of silicon and synthesis of organosilicon small molecules provide unique
opportunities for medicinal applications. The biological investigation of organosilicon small …

Extra precision glide: Docking and scoring incorporating a model of hydrophobic enclosure for protein− ligand complexes

RA Friesner, RB Murphy, MP Repasky… - Journal of medicinal …, 2006 - ACS Publications
A novel scoring function to estimate protein− ligand binding affinities has been developed
and implemented as the Glide 4.0 XP scoring function and docking protocol. In addition to …

The selectivity of protein kinase inhibitors: a further update

J Bain, L Plater, M Elliott, N Shpiro, CJ Hastie… - Biochemical …, 2007 - portlandpress.com
The specificities of 65 compounds reported to be relatively specific inhibitors of protein
kinases have been profiled against a panel of 70–80 protein kinases. On the basis of this …

The many roles of computation in drug discovery

WL Jorgensen - Science, 2004 - science.org
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Rational design of inhibitors that bind to inactive kinase conformations

Y Liu, NS Gray - Nature chemical biology, 2006 - nature.com
The majority of kinase inhibitors that have been developed so far—known as type I inhibitors—
target the ATP binding site of the kinase in its active conformation, in which the activation …

p38 MAP kinases: key signalling molecules as therapeutic targets for inflammatory diseases

S Kumar, J Boehm, JC Lee - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2003 - nature.com
The p38 MAP kinases are a family of serine/threonine protein kinases that play important
roles in cellular responses to external stress signals. Since their identification about 10 years …

Therapeutic strategies for rheumatoid arthritis

JS Smolen, G Steiner - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2003 - nature.com
Recent years have seen considerable advances in our understanding of both the clinical
and basic-research aspects of rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical progress has come from a better …