G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs): advances in structures, mechanisms and drug discovery

M Zhang, T Chen, X Lu, X Lan, Z Chen… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), the largest family of human membrane proteins and
an important class of drug targets, play a role in maintaining numerous physiological …

Microbiota–gut–brain axis and its therapeutic applications in neurodegenerative diseases

JS Loh, WQ Mak, LKS Tan, CX Ng, HH Chan… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The human gastrointestinal tract is populated with a diverse microbial community. The vast
genetic and metabolic potential of the gut microbiome underpins its ubiquity in nearly every …

Trends in kinase drug discovery: targets, indications and inhibitor design

MM Attwood, D Fabbro, AV Sokolov, S Knapp… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
The FDA approval of imatinib in 2001 was a breakthrough in molecularly targeted cancer
therapy and heralded the emergence of kinase inhibitors as a key drug class in the oncology …

GPCRdb in 2023: state-specific structure models using AlphaFold2 and new ligand resources

G Pándy-Szekeres, J Caroli, A Mamyrbekov… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are physiologically abundant signaling hubs routing
hundreds of extracellular signal substances and drugs into intracellular pathways. The …

Emerging mechanistic understanding of cilia function in cellular signalling

KI Hilgendorf, BR Myers, JF Reiter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Primary cilia are solitary, immotile sensory organelles present on most cells in the body that
participate broadly in human health, physiology and disease. Cilia generate a unique …

Emerging principles of cytokine pharmacology and therapeutics

RA Saxton, CR Glassman, KC Garcia - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted signalling proteins that play essential roles in the initiation,
maintenance and resolution of immune responses. Although the unique ability of cytokines …

G protein-coupled receptors: structure-and function-based drug discovery

D Yang, Q Zhou, V Labroska, S Qin… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the most successful therapeutic target families, G protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs) have experienced a transformation from random ligand screening to knowledge …

Trends in antidiabetic drug discovery: FDA approved drugs, new drugs in clinical trials and global sales

AD Dahlén, G Dashi, I Maslov, MM Attwood… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) continues to be a substantial medical problem due to its
increasing global prevalence and because chronic hyperglycemic states are closely linked …

Drug repurposing: a systematic review on root causes, barriers and facilitators

N Krishnamurthy, AA Grimshaw, SA Axson… - BMC health services …, 2022 - Springer
Background Repurposing is a drug development strategy receiving heightened attention
after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization of several …

Pharmacogenomics: driving personalized medicine

W Sadee, D Wang, K Hartmann, AE Toland - Pharmacological reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Personalized medicine tailors therapies, disease prevention, and health maintenance to the
individual, with pharmacogenomics serving as a key tool to improve outcomes and prevent …