Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

Targeting mRNA processing as an anticancer strategy

J Desterro, P Bak-Gordon… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Discoveries in the past decade have highlighted the potential of mRNA as a therapeutic
target for cancer. Specifically, RNA sequencing revealed that, in addition to gene mutations …

Recent trends in cyclic peptides as therapeutic agents and biochemical tools

JS Choi, SH Joo - Biomolecules & Therapeutics, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Notable progress has been made in the therapeutic and research applications of cyclic
peptides since our previous review. New drugs based on cyclic peptides are entering the …

Tackling undruggable targets with designer peptidomimetics and synthetic biologics

CS Swenson, G Mandava, DM Thomas… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The development of potent, specific, and pharmacologically viable chemical probes and
therapeutics is a central focus of chemical biology and therapeutic development. However, a …

Crystal structures of protein-bound cyclic peptides

AK Malde, TA Hill, A Iyer, DP Fairlie - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cyclization is an important post-translational modification of peptides and proteins that
confers key advantages such as protection from proteolytic degradation, altered solubility …

[HTML][HTML] Biology of the mRNA splicing machinery and its dysregulation in cancer providing therapeutic opportunities

M Blijlevens, J Li, VW van Beusechem - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dysregulation of messenger RNA (mRNA) processing—in particular mRNA splicing—is a
hallmark of cancer. Compared to normal cells, cancer cells frequently present aberrant …

Targeting splicing abnormalities in cancer

AA Agrawal, L Yu, PG Smith, S Buonamici - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently splicing has been recognized as a key pathway in cancer. Although aberrant
splicing has been shown to be a consequence of mutations or the abnormal expression of …

Bent into shape: Folded peptides to mimic protein structure and modulate protein function

HI Merritt, N Sawyer, PS Arora - Peptide Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein secondary and tertiary structure mimics have served as model systems to probe
biophysical parameters that guide protein folding and as attractive reagents to modulate …

Challenges in Therapeutically Targeting the RNA‐Recognition Motif

S Schmeing, P Hart - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The RNA recognition motif (RRM) is the most common RNA binding domain found in the
human proteome. RRM domains provide RNA‐binding proteins with sequence specific RNA …

Identification of phenothiazine derivatives as UHM-binding inhibitors of early spliceosome assembly

PKA Jagtap, T Kubelka, K Soni, CL Will, D Garg… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between U2AF homology motifs (UHMs) and U2AF ligand motifs (ULMs) play a
crucial role in early spliceosome assembly in eukaryotic gene regulation. UHM-ULM …