Expanding chemical probe space: quality criteria for covalent and degrader probes

IV Hartung, J Rudolph, MM Mader… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Within druggable target space, new small-molecule modalities, particularly covalent
inhibitors and targeted degraders, have expanded the repertoire of medicinal chemists …

Transcription associated cyclin-dependent kinases as therapeutic targets for prostate cancer

TA Constantin, KK Greenland, A Varela-Carver… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptional deregulation has emerged as a hallmark of several cancer types. In
metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, a stage in which systemic androgen …

Covalent proximity scanning of a distal cysteine to target PI3Kα

C Borsari, E Keles, JA McPhail… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Covalent protein kinase inhibitors exploit currently noncatalytic cysteines in the adenosine
5′-triphosphate (ATP)-binding site via electrophiles directly appended to a reversible …

Discovery of a highly potent and selective dual PROTAC degrader of CDK12 and CDK13

J Yang, Y Chang, JCY Tien, Z Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Selective degradation of the cyclin-dependent kinases 12 and 13 (CDK12/13) presents a
novel therapeutic opportunity for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), but there is still a lack …

Transcriptional cyclin-dependent kinases: Potential drug targets in cancer therapy

Y Liu, L Fu, J Wu, M Liu, G Wang, B Liu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the wake of the development of the concept of cell cycle and its limiting points, cyclin-
dependent kinases (CDKs) are considered to play a central role in regulating cell cycle …

Current progress and novel strategies that target CDK12 for drug discovery

P Lei, J Zhang, P Liao, C Ren, J Wang… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
CDK12 is a cyclin-dependent kinase that plays critical roles in DNA replication, transcription,
mRNA splicing, and DNA damage repair. CDK12 genomic changes, including mutation …

Chemical probes for understudied kinases: challenges and opportunities

RAM Serafim, JM Elkins, WJ Zuercher… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over 20 years after the approval of the first-in-class protein kinase inhibitor imatinib, the
biological function of a significant fraction of the human kinome remains poorly understood …

CDK12 regulates co-transcriptional splicing and RNA turnover in human cells

B Magnuson, K Bedi, IV Narayanan, B Bartkowiak… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The cyclin-dependent kinase CDK12 has garnered interest as a cancer therapeutic target as
DNA damage response genes are particularly suppressed by loss of CDK12 activity. In this …

Analysis of the ERK Pathway Cysteinome for Targeted Covalent Inhibition of RAF and MEK Kinases

A Romany, R Liu, S Zhan, J Clayton… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ERK pathway is one of the most important signaling cascades involved in
tumorigenesis. So far, eight noncovalent inhibitors of RAF and MEK kinases in the ERK …

Transcription-associated cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) as a potential target for cancer therapy

W Wu, S Yu, X Yu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12), a transcription-related cyclin dependent
kinase (CDK), plays a momentous part in multitudinous biological functions, such as …