A comprehensive review on Aurora kinase: Small molecule inhibitors and clinical trial studies

AC Borisa, HG Bhatt - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Aurora kinase belongs to serine/threonine kinase family which controls cell division.
Therapeutic inhibition of Aurora kinase showed great promise as probable anticancer …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic classification of cutaneous melanoma

R Akbani, KC Akdemir, B áArman Aksoy, M Albert… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
We describe the landscape of genomic alterations in cutaneous melanomas through DNA,
RNA, and protein-based analysis of 333 primary and/or metastatic melanomas from 331 …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular pathways in melanomagenesis: what we learned from next-generation sequencing approaches

G Palmieri, M Colombino, M Casula, A Manca… - Current oncology …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Conventional clinico-pathological features in melanoma
patients should be integrated with new molecular diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic …

Exome sequencing identifies recurrent mutations in NF1 and RASopathy genes in sun-exposed melanomas

M Krauthammer, Y Kong, A Bacchiocchi, P Evans… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We report on whole-exome sequencing (WES) of 213 melanomas. Our analysis established
NF1, encoding a negative regulator of RAS, as the third most frequently mutated gene in …

Phosphorylation of eIF2α triggered by mTORC1 inhibition and PP6C activation is required for autophagy and is aberrant in PP6C-mutated melanoma

J Wengrod, D Wang, S Weiss, H Zhong, I Osman… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Amino acid deprivation promotes the inhibition of the kinase complex mTORC1 (mammalian
target of rapamycin complex 1) and activation of the kinase GCN2 (general control …

[HTML][HTML] Non-BRAF mutant melanoma: molecular features and therapeutical implications

I Vanni, ET Tanda, B Dalmasso, L Pastorino… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma is one of the most aggressive tumors of the skin, and its incidence is growing
worldwide. Historically considered a drug resistant disease, since 2011 the therapeutic …

Quantitative conformational profiling of kinase inhibitors reveals origins of selectivity for Aurora kinase activation states

EW Lake, JM Muretta, AR Thompson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Protein kinases undergo large-scale structural changes that tightly regulate function and
control recognition by small-molecule inhibitors. Methods for quantifying the conformational …

Revisiting determinants of prognosis in cutaneous melanoma

SA Weiss, D Hanniford, E Hernando, I Osman - Cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for cutaneous melanoma is based
on primary tumor thickness and the presence of ulceration, mitoses, lymph node spread, and …

[HTML][HTML] The multiple functions of protein phosphatase 6

T Ohama - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review presents the accumulating evidence for the roles of protein phosphatase 6 (PP6)
in cell cycle, DNA damage repair, inflammatory signaling, lymphocyte development, virus …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic mechanism for allosteric activation of Aurora kinase A by activation loop phosphorylation

EF Ruff, JM Muretta, AR Thompson, EW Lake… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Many eukaryotic protein kinases are activated by phosphorylation on a specific conserved
residue in the regulatory activation loop, a post-translational modification thought to stabilize …