Kinase inhibitors: the road ahead

FM Ferguson, NS Gray - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
Receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathways have been successfully targeted to inhibit
proliferation and angiogenesis for cancer therapy. However, kinase deregulation has been …

Structural features of the protein kinase domain and targeted binding by small-molecule inhibitors

C Arter, L Trask, S Ward, S Yeoh, R Bayliss - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Protein kinases are key components in cellular signaling pathways as they carry out the
phosphorylation of proteins, primarily on Ser, Thr, and Tyr residues. The catalytic activity of …

Comprehensive analysis of kinase inhibitor selectivity

MI Davis, JP Hunt, S Herrgard, P Ciceri… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
We tested the interaction of 72 kinase inhibitors with 442 kinases covering> 80% of the
human catalytic protein kinome. Our data show that, as a class, type II inhibitors are more …

Comprehensive assay of kinase catalytic activity reveals features of kinase inhibitor selectivity

T Anastassiadis, SW Deacon, K Devarajan, H Ma… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Small-molecule protein kinase inhibitors are widely used to elucidate cellular signaling
pathways and are promising therapeutic agents. Owing to evolutionary conservation of the …

Enzyme inhibitor discovery by activity-based protein profiling

MJ Niphakis, BF Cravatt - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms possess huge numbers of uncharacterized enzymes.
Selective inhibitors offer powerful probes for assigning functions to enzymes in native …

[HTML][HTML] Progress with covalent small-molecule kinase inhibitors

Z Zhao, PE Bourne - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Summarized the diverse types of warheads across the human
kinome.•Highlighted facile covalent reactive functional groups which bind protein …

Dclk1 defines quiescent pancreatic progenitors that promote injury-induced regeneration and tumorigenesis

CB Westphalen, Y Takemoto, T Tanaka, M Macchini… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
The existence of adult pancreatic progenitor cells has been debated. While some favor the
concept of facultative progenitors involved in homeostasis and repair, neither a location nor …

Discovery of a selective inhibitor of doublecortin like kinase 1

FM Ferguson, B Nabet, S Raghavan, Y Liu… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Doublecortin like kinase 1 (DCLK1) is an understudied kinase that is upregulated in
a wide range of cancers, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). However …

Development of covalent inhibitors that can overcome resistance to first-generation FGFR kinase inhibitors

L Tan, J Wang, J Tanizaki, Z Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The human FGF receptors (FGFRs) play critical roles in various human cancers, and several
FGFR inhibitors are currently under clinical investigation. Resistance usually results from …

Small molecule strategies to harness the unfolded protein response: where do we go from here?

JMD Grandjean, RL Wiseman - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
The unfolded protein response (UPR) plays a central role in regulating endoplasmic
reticulum (ER) and global cellular physiology in response to pathologic ER stress. The UPR …