A comprehensive overview of globally approved JAK inhibitors

AM Shawky, FA Almalki, AN Abdalla, AH Abdelazeem… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Janus kinase (JAK) is a family of cytoplasmic non-receptor tyrosine kinases that includes
four members, namely JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, and TYK2. The JAKs transduce cytokine signaling …

MYC: a multipurpose oncogene with prognostic and therapeutic implications in blood malignancies

SE Ahmadi, S Rahimi, B Zarandi, R Chegeni… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
MYC oncogene is a transcription factor with a wide array of functions affecting cellular
activities such as cell cycle, apoptosis, DNA damage response, and hematopoiesis. Due to …

Why do BCL-2 inhibitors work and where should we use them in the clinic?

J Montero, A Letai - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2018 - nature.com
Intrinsic apoptosis is controlled by the BCL-2 family of proteins but the complexity of intra-
family interactions makes it challenging to predict cell fate via standard molecular biology …

Functional precision cancer medicine—moving beyond pure genomics

A Letai - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The essential job of precision medicine is to match the right drugs to the right patients. In
cancer, precision medicine has been nearly synonymous with genomics. However, sobering …

Ph-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a high-risk subtype in adults

N Jain, KG Roberts, E Jabbour, K Patel… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a high-risk
subtype of ALL in children. There are conflicting data on the incidence and prognosis of Ph …

Philadelphia chromosome–like acute lymphoblastic leukemia

SK Tasian, ML Loh, SP Hunger - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), also referred to as
BCR-ABL1–like ALL, is a high-risk subset with a gene expression profile that shares …

Current status and perspectives of patient-derived xenograft models in cancer research

Y Lai, X Wei, S Lin, L Qin, L Cheng, P Li - Journal of hematology & …, 2017 - Springer
Cancers remain a major public health problem worldwide, which still require profound
research in both the basic and preclinical fields. Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models are …

Targetable kinase gene fusions in high-risk B-ALL: a study from the Children's Oncology Group

SC Reshmi, RC Harvey, KG Roberts… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Philadelphia chromosome-like (Ph-like) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a high-risk
subtype characterized by genomic alterations that activate cytokine receptor and kinase …

Tumor suppressor TET2 promotes cancer immunity and immunotherapy efficacy

Y Xu, L Lv, Y Liu, MD Smith, WC Li… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Loss-of-function mutations in genes encoding TET DNA dioxygenase occur frequently in
hematopoietic malignancy, but rarely in solid tumors, which instead commonly have reduced …

Jak2V617F Reversible Activation Shows Its Essential Requirement in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

AJ Dunbar, RL Bowman, YC Park, K O'Connor, F Izzo… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Gain-of-function mutations activating JAK/STAT signaling are seen in the majority of patients
with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), most commonly JAK2 V617F. Although clinically …