Endothelial cell signaling and ventilator-induced lung injury: molecular mechanisms, genomic analyses, and therapeutic targets

T Wang, C Gross, AA Desai… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving intervention in critically ill patients with respiratory
failure due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Paradoxically, mechanical …

Human DECR1 is an androgen-repressed survival factor that regulates PUFA oxidation to protect prostate tumor cells from ferroptosis

ZD Nassar, CY Mah, J Dehairs, IJG Burvenich, S Irani… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO) is the main bioenergetic pathway in human prostate cancer
(PCa) and a promising novel therapeutic vulnerability. Here we demonstrate therapeutic …

Small molecule inhibitors targeting the heat shock protein system of human obligate protozoan parasites

T Zininga, A Shonhai - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obligate protozoan parasites of the kinetoplastids and apicomplexa infect human cells to
complete their life cycles. Some of the members of these groups of parasites develop in at …

Fatty acid oxidation is an adaptive survival pathway induced in prostate tumors by HSP90 inhibition

ZD Nassar, CY Mah, MM Centenera, S Irani… - Molecular Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
HSP90 is a molecular chaperone required for stabilization and activation of hundreds of
client proteins, including many known oncoproteins. AUY922 (luminespib), a new …

Non-canonical dimerization of the androgen receptor and other nuclear receptors: implications for human disease

A Jiménez-Panizo, P Pérez, AM Rojas… - Endocrine-Related …, 2019 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Nuclear receptors are transcription factors that play critical roles in development,
homeostasis and metabolism in all multicellular organisms. An important family of nuclear …

Harnessing the heterogeneity of prostate cancer for target discovery using patient-derived explants

MM Centenera, AD Vincent, M Moldovan, HM Lin… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a widespread push toward more biologically relevant pre-clinical
models of prostate cancer that can improve the discovery and translation of new drugs and …

A Boolean-based machine learning framework identifies predictive biomarkers of HSP90-targeted therapy response in prostate cancer

SY Shin, MM Centenera, JT Hodgson… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Precision medicine has emerged as an important paradigm in oncology, driven by the
significant heterogeneity of individual patients' tumour. A key prerequisite for effective …

Targeting the Hsp90 C-terminal domain to induce allosteric inhibition and selective client downregulation

KM Goode, DP Petrov, RE Vickman, SA Crist… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Inhibition of Hsp90 is desirable due to potential downregulation of
oncogenic clients. Early generation inhibitors bind to the N-terminal domain (NTD) but C …

Synthesis and Biological Activity of 3-(Heteroaryl)quinolin-2(1H)-ones Bis-Heterocycles as Potential Inhibitors of the Protein Folding Machinery Hsp90

EL Larghi, A Bruneau, F Sauvage, M Alami… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the context of our SAR study concerning 6BrCaQ analogues as C-terminal Hsp90
inhibitors, we designed and synthesized a novel series of 3-(heteroaryl) quinolin-2 (1 H), of …

Identification of novel response and predictive biomarkers to Hsp90 inhibitors through proteomic profiling of patient-derived prostate tumor explants

EV Nguyen, MM Centenera, M Moldovan, R Das… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2018 - ASBMB
Inhibition of the heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) chaperone is a promising therapeutic
strategy to target expression of the androgen receptor (AR) and other oncogenic drivers in …