Targeted drug delivery strategies for precision medicines

MT Manzari, Y Shamay, H Kiguchi, N Rosen… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Progress in the field of precision medicine has changed the landscape of cancer therapy.
Precision medicine is propelled by technologies that enable molecular profiling, genomic …

Aurora kinase B inhibition: a potential therapeutic strategy for cancer

NA Borah, MM Reddy - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aurora kinase B (AURKB) is a mitotic serine/threonine protein kinase that belongs to the
aurora kinase family along with aurora kinase A (AURKA) and aurora kinase C (AURKC) …

Aurora A Kinase Inhibition Is Synthetic Lethal with Loss of the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene

X Gong, J Du, SH Parsons, FF Merzoug, Y Webster… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Loss-of-function mutations in the retinoblastoma gene RB1 are common in several treatment-
refractory cancers such as small-cell lung cancer and triple-negative breast cancer. To …

Chromatin bridges, not micronuclei, activate cGAS after drug-induced mitotic errors in human cells

PJ Flynn, PD Koch, TJ Mitchison - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Mitotic errors can activate cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS) and induce type I interferon
(IFN) signaling. Current models propose that chromosome segregation errors generate …

Caspase-2 kills cells with extra centrosomes

D Rizzotto, V Vigorito, P Rieder, F Gallob… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Centrosomes are membrane-less organelles that orchestrate a wide array of biological
functions by acting as microtubule organizing centers. Here, we report that caspase-2 …

Drug and disease signature integration identifies synergistic combinations in glioblastoma

V Stathias, AM Jermakowicz, ME Maloof… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary adult brain tumor. Despite extensive
efforts, the median survival for GBM patients is approximately 14 months. GBM therapy could …

A biophysical framework for double-drugging kinases

C Kim, H Ludewig, A Hadzipasic… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Selective orthosteric inhibition of kinases has been challenging due to the conserved active
site architecture of kinases and emergence of resistance mutants. Simultaneous inhibition of …

Aurora A kinase is a priority pharmaceutical target for the treatment of cancers

AP Damodaran, L Vaufrey, O Gavard… - Trends in pharmacological …, 2017 - cell.com
Aurora kinases control multiple events during cell cycle progression and are essential for
mitotic and meiotic bipolar spindle assembly and function. There are three Aurora kinases in …

The G2-to-M transition is ensured by a dual mechanism that protects cyclin B from degradation by Cdc20-activated APC/C

P Lara-Gonzalez, MW Moyle, J Budrewicz… - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
In the eukaryotic cell cycle, a threshold level of cyclin B accumulation triggers the G2-to-M
transition, and subsequent cyclin B destruction triggers mitotic exit. The anaphase-promoting …

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of meta benzene isosteres

M Zhang, M Chapman, BR Sarode, B **ong, H Liang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Although aromatic rings are common elements in pharmaceutically active compounds, the
presence of these motifs brings several liabilities with respect to the developability of a drug …