[HTML][HTML] Small molecules targeting the innate immune cGAS‒STING‒TBK1 signaling pathway

C Ding, Z Song, A Shen, T Chen, A Zhang - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple cancer immunotherapies including chimeric antigen receptor T cell and immune
checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been successfully developed to treat various cancers by …

The role of TBK1 in cancer pathogenesis and anticancer immunity

AP Runde, R Mack, PB SJ, J Zhang - Journal of Experimental & Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
The TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) is a serine/threonine kinase belonging to the non-
canonical inhibitor of nuclear factor-κB (IκB) kinase (IKK) family. TBK1 can be activated by …

Cas9-induced targeted integration of large DNA payloads in primary human T cells via homology-mediated end-joining DNA repair

BR Webber, MJ Johnson, JG Skeate… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
The reliance on viral vectors for the production of genetically engineered immune cells for
adoptive cellular therapies remains a translational bottleneck. Here we report a method …

Compounds and methods for the enhanced degradation of targeted proteins

AP Crew, CM Crews, X Chen, H Dong… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Buckley et al.(Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2012), 51 (46), 11463-11467).*
Ahn, et al.,“HIF-lalpha peptide derivatives with modifications at the hydroxyproline residue …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of multipotent drugs for COVID-19 therapeutics with the evaluation of their SARS-CoV2 inhibitory activity

S Kumar, B Singh, P Kumari, PV Kumar… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The SARS-CoV2 is a highly contagious pathogen that causes COVID-19 disease. It has
affected millions of people globally with an average lethality of~ 3%. There is an urgent need …

Chemical regulation of the cGAS-STING pathway

Q Zhang, C Chen, B Xia, P Xu - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleic acids represent a major class of pathogen and damage signatures, recognized by a
variety of host sensors to initiate signaling cascades and immune responses, such as …

Roles for the IKK-related kinases TBK1 and IKKε in cancer

JK Durand, Q Zhang, AS Baldwin - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
While primarily studied for their roles in innate immune response, the IκB kinase (IKK)-
related kinases TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and IKKε also promote the oncogenic …

Identification and characterization of antibacterial compound(s) of cockroaches (Periplaneta americana)

SM Ali, R Siddiqui, SK Ong, MR Shah, A Anwar… - Applied microbiology …, 2017 - Springer
Infectious diseases remain a significant threat to human health, contributing to more than 17
million deaths, annually. With the worsening trends of drug resistance, there is a need for …

Targeting pattern-recognition receptors to discover new small molecule immune modulators

G Zhu, Y Xu, X Cen, KS Nandakumar, S Liu… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) are key immune receptors of the innate immune
system, which recognize the conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) of …

cGAS–STING, an important signaling pathway in diseases and their therapy

Q Li, P Wu, Q Du, U Hanif, H Hu, K Li - MedComm, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Since cyclic guanosine monophosphate‐adenosine monophosphate synthase (cGAS)–
stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling pathway was discovered in 2013, great …