An overview of PROTACs: a promising drug discovery paradigm

Z Liu, M Hu, Y Yang, C Du, H Zhou, C Liu, Y Chen… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) technology has emerged as a novel therapeutic
paradigm in recent years. PROTACs are heterobifunctional molecules that degrade target …

HIV expression in infected T cell clones

JW Rausch, S Parvez, S Pathak, AA Capoferri… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
The principal barrier to an HIV-1 cure is the persistence of infected cells harboring
replication-competent proviruses despite antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV-1 transcriptional …

Single-cell epigenetic, transcriptional, and protein profiling of latent and active HIV-1 reservoir revealed that IKZF3 promotes HIV-1 persistence

Y Wei, TC Davenport, JA Collora, HK Ma… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Understanding how HIV-1-infected cells proliferate and persist is key to HIV-1 eradication,
but the heterogeneity and rarity of HIV-1-infected cells hamper mechanistic interrogations …

Improving prediction performance of general protein language model by domain-adaptive pretraining on DNA-binding protein

W Zeng, Y Dou, L Pan, L Xu, S Peng - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
DNA-protein interactions exert the fundamental structure of many pivotal biological
processes, such as DNA replication, transcription, and gene regulation. However, accurate …

Discovery and preclinical pharmacology of NX-2127, an orally bioavailable degrader of Bruton's tyrosine kinase with immunomodulatory activity for the treatment of …

DW Robbins, MA Noviski, YS Tan… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), a member of the TEC family of kinases, is an essential
effector of B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling. Chronic activation of BTK-mediated BCR …

T and B cell abnormalities, pneumocystis pneumonia, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia associated with an AIOLOS defect in patients

HS Kuehn, J Chang, M Yamashita… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
AIOLOS/IKZF3 is a member of the IKAROS family of transcription factors. IKAROS/IKZF1
mutations have been previously associated with different forms of primary …

Transcriptional reprogramming by mutated IRF4 in lymphoma

N Schleussner, P Cauchy, V Franke, M Giefing… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Disease-causing mutations in genes encoding transcription factors (TFs) can affect TF
interactions with their cognate DNA-binding motifs. Whether and how TF mutations impact …

In Vivo Modeling of CLL Transformation to Richter Syndrome Reveals Convergent Evolutionary Paths and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities

E Ten Hacken, T Sewastianik, S Yin, GB Hoffmann… - Blood cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Transformation to aggressive disease histologies generates formidable clinical challenges
across cancers, but biological insights remain few. We modeled the genetic heterogeneity of …

Gapped-kmer sequence modeling robustly identifies regulatory vocabularies and distal enhancers conserved between evolutionarily distant mammals

JW Oh, MA Beer - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Gene regulatory elements drive complex biological phenomena and their mutations are
associated with common human diseases. The impacts of human regulatory variants are …

Biological significance of monoallelic and biallelic BIRC3 loss in del(11q) chronic lymphocytic leukemia progression

M Quijada-Álamo, M Hernández-Sánchez… - Blood Cancer …, 2021 - nature.com
BIRC3 is monoallelically deleted in up to 80% of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cases
harboring del (11q). In addition, truncating mutations in the remaining allele of this gene can …