Antibody-based approaches to target pancreatic tumours

M Sorbara, P Cordelier, N Bery - Antibodies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer with a dismal prognosis. This is due to the
difficulty to detect the disease at an early and curable stage. In addition, only limited …

A potent KRAS macromolecule degrader specifically targeting tumours with mutant KRAS

N Bery, A Miller, T Rabbitts - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Tumour-associated KRAS mutations are the most prevalent in the three RAS-family isoforms
and involve many different amino-acids. Therefore, molecules able to interfere with mutant …

KRAS-specific inhibition using a DARPin binding to a site in the allosteric lobe

N Bery, S Legg, J Debreczeni, J Breed… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Inhibiting the RAS oncogenic protein has largely been through targeting the switch regions
that interact with signalling effector proteins. Here, we report designed ankyrin repeat …

Structural insights into Frizzled3 through nanobody modulators

J Hillier, Y Zhao, L Carrique, T Malinauskas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Wnt receptor Frizzled3 (FZD3) is important for brain axonal development and
cancer progression. We report structures of FZD3 in complex with extracellular and …

Cytidine deaminase-dependent mitochondrial biogenesis as a potential vulnerability in pancreatic cancer cells

A Frances, A Lumeau, N Bery, M Gayral… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Cytidine deaminase (CDA) converts cytidine and deoxycytidine into uridine and
deoxyuridine as part of the pyrimidine salvage pathway. Elevated levels of CDA are found in …

Discovery of a bicyclic peptidyl pan-Ras inhibitor

M Buyanova, S Cai, J Cooper, C Rhodes… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The Ras subfamily of small GTPases is mutated in∼ 30% of human cancers and represents
compelling yet challenging anticancer drug targets owing to their flat protein surface. We …

Genetically encodable biosensors for Ras activity

R Weeks, S Mehta, J Zhang - RSC Chemical Biology, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Genetically encoded Ras biosensors have been instrumental in illuminating the
spatiotemporal dynamics of Ras activity since the beginning of the imaging revolution of the …

TDP1 mutation causing SCAN1 neurodegenerative syndrome hampers the repair of transcriptional DNA double-strand breaks

M Geraud, A Cristini, S Salimbeni, N Bery, V Jouffret… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
TDP1 removes transcription-blocking topoisomerase I cleavage complexes (TOP1ccs), and
its inactivating H493R mutation causes the neurodegenerative syndrome SCAN1. However …

A cell-based screening method using an intracellular antibody for discovering small molecules targeting the translocation protein LMO2

N Bery, CJR Bataille, A Russell, A Hayes… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Intracellular antibodies are tools that can be used directly for target validation by interfering
with properties like protein-protein interactions. An alternative use of intracellular antibodies …

Discovery of SOCS7 as a versatile E3 ligase for protein-based degraders

A Cornebois, M Sorbara, M Cristol, E Vigne… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) strategy harnesses the ubiquitin-proteasome system
(UPS) to degrade a protein of interest (POI) by bringing it into proximity with an E3 ubiquitin …