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 …

Phosphoinositides: tiny lipids with giant impact on cell regulation

T Balla - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Phosphoinositides (PIs) make up only a small fraction of cellular phospholipids, yet they
control almost all aspects of a cell's life and death. These lipids gained tremendous research …

Targeting BTK with ibrutinib in relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia

JC Byrd, RR Furman, SE Coutre, IW Flinn… - … England Journal of …, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The treatment of relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has resulted in
few durable remissions. Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), an essential component of B-cell …

Acalabrutinib (ACP-196) in relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia

JC Byrd, B Harrington, S O'Brien… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Irreversible inhibition of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) by ibrutinib represents
an important therapeutic advance for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) …

The Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor PCI-32765 blocks B-cell activation and is efficacious in models of autoimmune disease and B-cell malignancy

LA Honigberg, AM Smith, M Sirisawad… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Activation of the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling pathway contributes to the initiation
and maintenance of B-cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. The Bruton tyrosine …

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 …

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 …

The protein kinase encoded by the Akt proto-oncogene is a target of the PDGF-activated phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase

TF Franke, SI Yang, TO Chan, K Datta, A Kazlauskas… - Cell, 1995 - cell.com
Akf proto-oncogene is catalytically inactive in serum-starved primary and immortalized
fibroblasts. Here we show that Akt and the Akt-related kinase AKT2 are activated by PDGF …

The role of glial cells in multiple sclerosis disease progression

LM Healy, JA Stratton, T Kuhlmann… - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the development of highly effective treatments for relapsing–remitting multiple
sclerosis (MS), limited progress has been made in addressing primary progressive or …

Cellular function of phosphoinositide 3-kinases: implications for development, immunity, homeostasis, and cancer

R Katso, K Okkenhaug, K Ahmadi… - Annual review of cell …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) family of enzymes is recruited upon growth
factor receptor activation and produces 3′ phosphoinositide lipids. The lipid products of …