Structural features of the protein kinase domain and targeted binding by small-molecule inhibitors

C Arter, L Trask, S Ward, S Yeoh, R Bayliss - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - jbc.org
Protein kinases are key components in cellular signaling pathways as they carry out the
phosphorylation of proteins, primarily on Ser, Thr, and Tyr residues. The catalytic activity of …

Paul Ehrlich's magic bullet concept: 100 years of progress

K Strebhardt, A Ullrich - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2008 - nature.com
Exceptional advances in molecular biology and genetic research have expedited cancer
drug development tremendously. The declared paradigm is the development …

AlphaFill: enriching AlphaFold models with ligands and cofactors

ML Hekkelman, I de Vries, RP Joosten, A Perrakis - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction approaches have had a
transformative effect on biomolecular sciences. The predicted protein models in the …

Conformational states dynamically populated by a kinase determine its function

T **e, T Saleh, P Rossi, CG Kalodimos - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Protein kinases mediate many cell signaling processes. Central to their
physiological function is the regulation of their binding and enzymatic activities, which is …

Defining a new nomenclature for the structures of active and inactive kinases

V Modi, RL Dunbrack Jr - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - pnas.org
Targeting protein kinases is an important strategy for intervention in cancer. Inhibitors are
directed at the active conformation or a variety of inactive conformations. While attempts …

Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 5. Improved docking performance using high solute dielectric constant MM/GBSA and MM/PBSA …

H Sun, Y Li, M Shen, S Tian, L Xu, P Pan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
With the rapid development of computational techniques and hardware, more rigorous and
precise theoretical models have been used to predict the binding affinities of a large number …

Validation of ITD mutations in FLT3 as a therapeutic target in human acute myeloid leukaemia

CC Smith, Q Wang, CS Chin, S Salerno, LE Damon… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Effective targeted cancer therapeutic development depends upon distinguishing disease-
associated 'driver'mutations, which have causative roles in malignancy pathogenesis, from …

[HTML][HTML] An allosteric mechanism for activation of the kinase domain of epidermal growth factor receptor

X Zhang, J Gureasko, K Shen, PA Cole, J Kuriyan - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
The mechanism by which the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is activated upon
dimerization has eluded definition. We find that the EGFR kinase domain can be activated …

Molecular biology of bcr-abl1–positive chronic myeloid leukemia

A Quintás-Cardama, J Cortes - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has been regarded as the paradigmatic example of a
malignancy defined by a unique molecular event, the BCR-ABL1 oncogene. Decades of …

Surface comparison of active and inactive protein kinases identifies a conserved activation mechanism

AP Kornev, NM Haste, SS Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - pnas.org
The surface comparison of different serine–threonine and tyrosine kinases reveals a set of
30 residues whose spatial positions are highly conserved. The comparison between active …