Cellular functions of eukaryotic RNA helicases and their links to human diseases

KE Bohnsack, S Yi, S Venus, E Jankowsky… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA helicases are highly conserved proteins that use nucleoside triphosphates to bind or
remodel RNA, RNA–protein complexes or both. RNA helicases are classified into the DEAD …

Natural compounds modulating mitophagy: Implications for cancer therapy

M Cao, Y Tang, Y Luo, F Gu, Y Zhu, X Liu, C Yan, W Hu… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer is considered as the second leading cause of mortality, and cancer incidence is still
growing rapidly worldwide, which poses an increasing global health burden. Although …

Targeting EIF4A triggers an interferon response to synergize with chemotherapy and suppress triple-negative breast cancer

N Zhao, EB Kabotyanski, AB Saltzman… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Protein synthesis is frequently dysregulated in cancer and selective inhibition of mRNA
translation represents an attractive cancer therapy. Here, we show that therapeutically …

Calibrated ribosome profiling assesses the dynamics of ribosomal flux on transcripts

K Tomuro, M Mito, H Toh, N Kawamoto… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ribosome profiling, which is based on deep sequencing of ribosome footprints, has served
as a powerful tool for elucidating the regulatory mechanism of protein synthesis. However …

Targeted Covalent Modification Strategies for Drugging the Undruggable Targets

T Tamura, M Kawano, I Hamachi - Chemical Reviews, 2025 - ACS Publications
The term “undruggable” refers to proteins or other biological targets that have been
historically challenging to target with conventional drugs or therapeutic strategies because …

The human DEAD-box helicase DDX3X as a regulator of mRNA translation

CS Ryan, M Schröder - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The human DEAD-box protein DDX3X is an RNA remodelling enzyme that has been
implicated in various aspects of RNA metabolism. In addition, like many DEAD-box proteins …

DMDA-PatA mediates RNA sequence-selective translation repression by anchoring eIF4A and DDX3 to GNG motifs

H Saito, Y Handa, M Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Small-molecule compounds that elicit mRNA-selective translation repression have attracted
interest due to their potential for expansion of druggable space. However, only a limited …

Inhibition of MYC translation through targeting of the newly identified PHB-eIF4F complex as a therapeutic strategy in CLL

A Largeot, V Klapp, E Viry, S Gonder… - Blood, The Journal …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Dysregulation of messenger RNA (mRNA) translation, including preferential translation of
mRNA with complex 5′ untranslated regions such as the MYC oncogene, is recognized as …

A second-generation eIF4A RNA helicase inhibitor exploits translational reprogramming as a vulnerability in triple-negative breast cancer

R Cencic, YK Im, SK Naineni… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
In this study, we aimed to address the current limitations of therapies for macro-metastatic
triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and provide a therapeutic lead that overcomes the …

Ribosome profiling: a powerful tool in oncological research

D Su, C Ding, J Qiu, G Yang, R Wang, Y Liu, J Tao… - Biomarker …, 2024 - Springer
Neoplastic cells need to adapt their gene expression pattern to survive in an ever-changing
or unfavorable tumor microenvironment. Protein synthesis (or mRNA translation), an …