Beyond PI3Ks: targeting phosphoinositide kinases in disease

JE Burke, J Triscott, BM Emerling… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Lipid phosphoinositides are master regulators of almost all aspects of a cell's life and death
and are generated by the tightly regulated activity of phosphoinositide kinases. Although …

Understanding phosphoinositides: rare, dynamic, and essential membrane phospholipids

EJ Dickson, B Hille - Biochemical Journal, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Polyphosphoinositides (PPIs) are essential phospholipids located in the cytoplasmic leaflet
of eukaryotic cell membranes. Despite contributing only a small fraction to the bulk of cellular …

Reprogramming tumour-associated macrophages to outcompete cancer cells

X Zhang, S Li, I Malik, MH Do, L Ji, C Chou, W Shi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In metazoan organisms, cell competition acts as a quality control mechanism to eliminate
unfit cells in favour of their more robust neighbours,. This mechanism has the potential to be …

[HTML][HTML] ELAVL4, splicing, and glutamatergic dysfunction precede neuron loss in MAPT mutation cerebral organoids

KR Bowles, MC Silva, K Whitney, T Bertucci, JE Berlind… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) because of MAPT mutation causes pathological
accumulation of tau and glutamatergic cortical neuronal death by unknown mechanisms. We …

PIKFYVE inhibition mitigates disease in models of diverse forms of ALS

ST Hung, GR Linares, WH Chang, Y Eoh, G Krishnan… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that results from
many diverse genetic causes. Although therapeutics specifically targeting known causal …

Inhibition of PIKfyve kinase prevents infection by Zaire ebolavirus and SARS-CoV-2

YL Kang, Y Chou, PW Rothlauf, Z Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Virus entry is a multistep process. It initiates when the virus attaches to the host cell and
ends when the viral contents reach the cytosol. Genetically unrelated viruses can subvert …

Phosphoinositides: tiny lipids with giant impact on cell regulation

T Balla - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Phosphoinositides (PIs) make up only a small fraction of cellular phospholipids, yet they
control almost all aspects of a cell's life and death. These lipids gained tremendous research …

Lysosomal size matters

MEG de Araujo, G Liebscher, MW Hess, LA Huber - Traffic, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lysosomes are key cellular catabolic centers that also perform fundamental metabolic,
signaling and quality control functions. Lysosomes are not static and they respond …

A molecular mechanism to regulate lysosome motility for lysosome positioning and tubulation

X Li, N Rydzewski, A Hider, X Zhang, J Yang… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
To mediate the degradation of biomacromolecules, lysosomes must traffic towards cargo-
carrying vesicles for subsequent membrane fusion or fission. Mutations of the lysosomal …

Roles of PIKfyve in multiple cellular pathways

P Rivero-Ríos, LS Weisman - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Phosphoinositide signaling lipids are crucial for eukaryotes and regulate many aspects of
cell function. These signaling molecules are difficult to study because they are extremely low …