The isomerase PIN1 controls numerous cancer-driving pathways and is a unique drug target

XZ Zhou, KP Lu - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Targeted drugs have changed cancer treatment but are often ineffective in the long term
against solid tumours, largely because of the activation of heterogeneous oncogenic …

Prolyl isomerase Pin1 as a molecular switch to determine the fate of phosphoproteins

YC Liou, XZ Zhou, KP Lu - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2011 - cell.com
Pin1 is a highly conserved enzyme that only isomerizes specific phosphorylated Ser/Thr-Pro
bonds in certain proteins, thereby inducing conformational changes. Such conformational …

Reciprocal antagonism of PIN1-APC/CCDH1 governs mitotic protein stability and cell cycle entry

S Ke, F Dang, L Wang, JY Chen, MT Naik, W Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Induced oncoproteins degradation provides an attractive anti-cancer modality. Activation of
anaphase-promoting complex (APC/CCDH1) prevents cell-cycle entry by targeting crucial …

Prolyl isomerase Pin1 in cancer

Z Lu, T Hunter - Cell research, 2014 - nature.com
Proline-directed phosphorylation is a posttranslational modification that is instrumental in
regulating signaling from the plasma membrane to the nucleus, and its dysregulation …

PML: Regulation and multifaceted function beyond tumor suppression

KS Hsu, HY Kao - Cell & bioscience, 2018 - Springer
Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) was originally identified as a fusion partner of retinoic
acid receptor alpha in acute promyelocytic leukemia patients with the (15; 17) chromosomal …

Differential roles of PML isoforms

S Nisole, MA Maroui, XH Mascle, M Aubry… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The tumor suppressor promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein is fused to the retinoic acid
receptor alpha in patients suffering from acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Treatment of …

Peptidyl-prolyl cis–trans isomerase Pin1 in ageing, cancer and Alzheimer disease

TH Lee, L Pastorino, KP Lu - Expert reviews in molecular medicine, 2011 - cambridge.org
Phosphorylation of proteins on serine or threonine residues preceding proline is a key
signalling mechanism in diverse physiological and pathological processes. Pin1 (peptidyl …

Cell-permeable bicyclic peptide inhibitors against intracellular proteins

W Lian, B Jiang, Z Qian, D Pei - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptides have great potential as therapeutic agents and research tools but are
generally impermeable to the cell membrane. Fusion of cyclic peptides with a cyclic cell …

Death-associated protein kinase 1 phosphorylates Pin1 and inhibits its prolyl isomerase activity and cellular function

TH Lee, CH Chen, F Suizu, P Huang… - Molecular cell, 2011 - cell.com
Pin1 is a phospho-specific prolyl isomerase that regulates numerous key signaling
molecules and whose deregulation contributes to disease notably cancer. However, since …

A Cullin3-KLHL20 Ubiquitin ligase-dependent pathway targets PML to potentiate HIF-1 signaling and prostate cancer progression

WC Yuan, YR Lee, SF Huang, YM Lin, TY Chen… - Cancer cell, 2011 - cell.com
Tumor hypoxia is associated with disease progression and treatment failure, but the hypoxia
signaling mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we show that KLHL20, a Cullin3 (Cul3) …