[HTML][HTML] Small molecules in targeted cancer therapy: advances, challenges, and future perspectives

L Zhong, Y Li, L Xiong, W Wang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Due to the advantages in efficacy and safety compared with traditional chemotherapy drugs,
targeted therapeutic drugs have become mainstream cancer treatments. Since the first …

PROTACs: great opportunities for academia and industry (an update from 2020 to 2021)

M He, C Cao, Z Ni, Y Liu, P Song, S Hao, Y He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras (PROTACs) technology is a new protein-
degradation strategy that has emerged in recent years. It uses bifunctional small molecules …

BTK inhibitors in the treatment of hematological malignancies and inflammatory diseases: mechanisms and clinical studies

A Alu, H Lei, X Han, Y Wei, X Wei - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is an essential component of multiple signaling pathways that
regulate B cell and myeloid cell proliferation, survival, and functions, making it a promising …

Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors for multiple sclerosis

J Krämer, A Bar-Or, TJ Turner, H Wiendl - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Current therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) reduce both relapses and relapse-associated
worsening of disability, which is assumed to be mainly associated with transient infiltration of …

PROTAC: an effective targeted protein degradation strategy for cancer therapy

SM Qi, J Dong, ZY Xu, XD Cheng, WD Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) technology is an effective endogenous protein
degradation tool developed in recent years that can ubiquitinate the target proteins through …

Molecular targeted therapy: Treating cancer with specificity

YT Lee, YJ Tan, CE Oon - European journal of pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular targeted therapies are revolutionized therapeutics which interfere with specific
molecules to block cancer growth, progression, and metastasis. Many molecular targeted …

Inhibitors targeting Bruton's tyrosine kinase in cancers: drug development advances

T Wen, J Wang, Y Shi, H Qian, P Liu - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor is a promising novel agent that has potential
efficiency in B-cell malignancies. It took approximately 20 years from target discovery to new …

Role of Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cells and malignancies

S Pal Singh, F Dammeijer, RW Hendriks - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a non-receptor kinase that plays a crucial role in oncogenic
signaling that is critical for proliferation and survival of leukemic cells in many B cell …

From state-of-the-art treatments to novel therapies for advanced-stage pancreatic cancer

C Nevala-Plagemann, M Hidalgo… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Improvements in the outcomes of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
have lagged behind advances made in the treatment of many other malignancies over the …

Prospects for combining targeted and conventional cancer therapy with immunotherapy

P Gotwals, S Cameron, D Cipolletta… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Over the past 25 years, research in cancer therapeutics has largely focused on two distinct
lines of enquiry. In one approach, efforts to understand the underlying cell-autonomous …