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 …

RAF-MEK-ERK pathway in cancer evolution and treatment

R Ullah, Q Yin, AH Snell, L Wan - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The RAF-MEK-ERK signaling cascade is a well-characterized MAPK pathway
involved in cell proliferation and survival. The three-layered MAPK signaling cascade is …

RAS-targeted therapies: is the undruggable drugged?

AR Moore, SC Rosenberg, F McCormick… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract RAS (KRAS, NRAS and HRAS) is the most frequently mutated gene family in
cancers, and, consequently, investigators have sought an effective RAS inhibitor for more …

Chemical language modeling with structured state space sequence models

R Özçelik, S de Ruiter, E Criscuolo, F Grisoni - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Generative deep learning is resha** drug design. Chemical language models (CLMs)–
which generate molecules in the form of molecular strings–bear particular promise for this …

Compromised MAPK signaling in human diseases: an update

EK Kim, EJ Choi - Archives of toxicology, 2015 - Springer
The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in mammals include c-Jun NH 2-terminal
kinase (JNK), p38 MAPK, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK). These enzymes …

Targeting RAS–ERK signalling in cancer: promises and challenges

AA Samatar, PI Poulikakos - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The RAS–RAF–MEK–ERK signalling pathway is hyperactivated in a high
percentage of tumours, most frequently owing to activating mutations of the KRAS, NRAS …

Drug–target kinetics in drug discovery

PJ Tonge - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of therapies for the treatment of neurological cancer faces a number of
major challenges including the synthesis of small molecule agents that can penetrate the …

The cysteinome of protein kinases as a target in drug development

A Chaikuad, P Koch, SA Laufer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Drugs that function through covalent bond formation represent a considerable fraction of our
repository of effective medicines but safety concerns and the complexity of develo** …

The ins and outs of selective kinase inhibitor development

S Müller, A Chaikuad, NS Gray, S Knapp - Nature chemical biology, 2015 - nature.com
Protein kinases have emerged as one of the most successful families of drug targets. To
date, most selective kinase inhibitors have been discovered serendipitously either through …

How many kinases are druggable? A review of our current understanding

B Anderson, P Rosston, HW Ong… - Biochemical …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
There are over 500 human kinases ranging from very well-studied to almost completely
ignored. Kinases are tractable and implicated in many diseases, making them ideal targets …