Targeting androgen receptor phase separation to overcome antiandrogen resistance

J Xie, H He, W Kong, Z Li, Z Gao, D Xie, L Sun… - Nature Chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer inevitably acquire resistance to
antiandrogen therapies in part because of androgen receptor (AR) mutations or splice …

Addressing the reciprocal crosstalk between the AR and the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathways for prostate cancer treatment

F Raith, DH O'Donovan, C Lemos, O Politz… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The reduction in androgen synthesis and the blockade of the androgen receptor (AR)
function by chemical castration and AR signaling inhibitors represent the main treatment …

N-terminal domain of androgen receptor is a major therapeutic barrier and potential pharmacological target for treating castration resistant prostate cancer: a …

Y Chen, T Lan - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The incidence rate of prostate cancer (PCa) has risen by 3% per year from 2014 through
2019 in the United States. An estimated 34,700 people will die from PCa in 2023 …

A hotspot for posttranslational modifications on the androgen receptor dimer interface drives pathology and anti-androgen resistance

A Alegre-Martí, A Jiménez-Panizo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Mutations of the androgen receptor (AR) associated with prostate cancer and androgen
insensitivity syndrome may profoundly influence its structure, protein interaction network …

The role of ubiquitination in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

M Sengupta, A Pluciennik, DE Merry - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neurodegenerative and neuromuscular
genetic disease caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine-encoding CAG tract in the …

Topology of folded molecular chains: from single biomolecules to engineered origami

B Scalvini, V Sheikhhassani, J Woodard, J Aupič… - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
The topology of biological polymers such as proteins and nucleic acids is an important
aspect of their 3D structure. Recently, two applications of topology to molecular chains have …

[HTML][HTML] Phase Separation Mediated Sub-Nuclear Compartmentalization of Androgen Receptors

S Yavuz, TE Abraham, AB Houtsmuller, ME van Royen - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
The androgen receptor (AR), a member of the nuclear steroid hormone receptor family of
transcription factors, plays a crucial role not only in the development of the male phenotype …

A new tool to study the binding behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins

A Upadhyay, C Ekenna - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding the binding behavior and conformational dynamics of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs) is crucial for unraveling their regulatory roles in biological processes …

Circuit topology approach for the comparative analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins

B Scalvini, V Sheikhhassani… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack a stable native conformation, making it
challenging to characterize their structure and dynamics. Key topological motifs with …

A tile model of circuit topology for self-entangled biopolymers

E Flapan, A Mashaghi, H Wong - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Building on the theory of circuit topology for intra-chain contacts in entangled proteins, we
introduce tiles as a way to rigorously model local entanglements which are held in place by …