The proteolytic regulation of virus cell entry by furin and other proprotein convertases

G Izaguirre - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
A wide variety of viruses exploit furin and other proprotein convertases (PCs) of the
constitutive protein secretion pathway in order to regulate their cell entry mechanism and …

Peptidomimetics in cancer targeting

MM Gomari, S Abkhiz, TG Pour, E Lotfi, N Rostami… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
The low efficiency of treatment strategies is one of the main obstacles to developing cancer
inhibitors. Up to now, various classes of therapeutics have been developed to inhibit cancer …

Combining flavin photocatalysis with parallel synthesis: a general platform to optimize peptides with non-proteinogenic amino acids

JR Immel, M Chilamari, S Bloom - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Most peptide drugs contain non-proteinogenic amino acids (NPAAs), born out through
extensive structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies using solid-phase peptide synthesis …

Therapeutic uses of furin and its inhibitors: a patent review

F Couture, A Kwiatkowska, YL Dory… - Expert opinion on …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Since the discovery of furin, numerous reports have studied its role in health
and diseases, including cancer, inflammatory and infectious diseases. This interest has led …

Novel furin inhibitors with potent anti‐infectious activity

K Hardes, GL Becker, Y Lu, SO Dahms… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
New peptidomimetic furin inhibitors with unnatural amino acid residues in the P3 position
were synthesized. The most potent compound 4‐guanidinomethyl‐phenylacteyl‐Arg‐Tle …

PACE4 undergoes an oncogenic alternative splicing switch in cancer

F Couture, R Sabbagh, A Kwiatkowska, R Desjardins… - Cancer Research, 2017 - AACR
Inhibition of PACE4, a proprotein convertase that is overexpressed in prostate cancer, has
been shown to block cancer progression in an androgen-independent manner. However …

Discovery of novel Thieno [2, 3-d] imidazole derivatives as agonists of human STING for antitumor immunotherapy using systemic administration

J Niu, H Bai, Z Li, Y Gao, Y Zhang, X Wang… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The activation of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling pathways plays an
important role in the innate immune response. Although several STING agonists have been …

Optimization of Substrate‐Analogue Furin Inhibitors

T Ivanova, K Hardes, S Kallis, SO Dahms… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The proprotein convertase furin is a potential target for drug design, especially for the
inhibition of furin‐dependent virus replication. All effective synthetic furin inhibitors identified …

Comparative host–pathogen protein–protein interaction analysis of recent coronavirus outbreaks and important host targets identification

AA Khan, Z Khan - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Last two decades have witnessed several global infectious outbreaks. Among these,
coronavirus is identified as a prime culprit ranging from its involvement in severe acute …

[HTML][HTML] PACE4 inhibitors and their peptidomimetic analogs block prostate cancer tumor progression through quiescence induction, increased apoptosis and impaired …

C Levesque, F Couture, A Kwiatkowska, R Desjardins… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prostate cancer is the leading cancer in North American men. Current pharmacological
treatments are limited to anti-androgen strategies and the development of new therapeutic …