AKAP signaling islands: venues for precision pharmacology

MH Omar, JD Scott - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Regulatory enzymes often have different roles in distinct subcellular compartments. Yet,
most drugs indiscriminately saturate the cell. Thus, subcellular drug-delivery holds promise …

Gαs–Protein kinase a (PKA) pathway signalopathies: the emerging genetic landscape and therapeutic potential of human diseases driven by aberrant Gαs-PKA …

DJ Ramms, F Raimondi, N Arang, FW Herberg… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - ASPET
Many of the fundamental concepts of signal transduction and kinase activity are attributed to
the discovery and crystallization of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, or protein kinase A …

Drugs that regulate local cell signaling: AKAP targeting as a therapeutic option

PJ Bucko, JD Scott - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Cells respond to environmental cues by mobilizing signal transduction cascades that
engage protein kinases and phosphoprotein phosphatases. Correct organization of these …

[HTML][HTML] Subcellular specificity of cannabinoid effects in striatonigral circuits

E Soria-Gomez, ACP Zottola, Y Mariani, T Desprez… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Recent advances in neuroscience have positioned brain circuits as key units in controlling
behavior, implying that their positive or negative modulation necessarily leads to specific …

[HTML][HTML] Pathophysiology of primary cilia: signaling and proteostasis regulation

E Senatore, R Iannucci, F Chiuso… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Primary cilia are microtubule-based, non-motile sensory organelles present in most types of
growth-arrested eukaryotic cells. They are transduction hubs that receive and transmit …

[HTML][HTML] Proximity-dependent biotinylation approaches to explore the dynamic compartmentalized proteome

U Dionne, AC Gingras - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, proximity-dependent biotinylation approaches, including BioID, APEX, and
their derivatives, have been widely used to define the compositions of organelles and other …

Chromosome oscillation promotes Aurora A–dependent Hec1 phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity

K Iemura, T Natsume, K Maehara, MT Kanemaki… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
Most cancer cells show chromosomal instability, a condition where chromosome
missegregation occurs frequently. We found that chromosome oscillation, an iterative …

Advances in tethered photopharmacology for precise optical control of signaling proteins

J Broichhagen, J Levitz - Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
To overcome the limitations of traditional pharmacology, the field of photopharmacology has
developed around the central concept of using light to endow drug action with …

PLK1 regulates centrosome migration and spindle dynamics in male mouse meiosis

E Alfaro, P López‐Jiménez, J González‐Martínez… - EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Cell division requires the regulation of karyokinesis and cytokinesis, which includes an
essential role of the achromatic spindle. Although the functions of centrosomes are well …

The TBC1D31/praja2 complex controls primary ciliogenesis through PKA‐directed OFD1 ubiquitylation

E Senatore, F Chiuso, L Rinaldi, D Intartaglia… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
The primary cilium is a microtubule‐based sensory organelle that dynamically links
signalling pathways to cell differentiation, growth, and development. Genetic defects of …