Post-translational modifications of STING: a potential therapeutic target

J Kang, J Wu, Q Liu, X Wu, Y Zhao, J Ren - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is an endoplasmic-reticulum resident protein, playing
essential roles in immune responses against microbial infections. However, over-activation …

Death‐associated protein kinase (DAPK) family modulators: current and future therapeutic outcomes

AK Farag, EJ Roh - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Serine/threonine kinases (STKs) represent the majority of discovered kinases to date even
though a few Food and Drug Administration approved STKs inhibitors are reported. The third …

Genome-wide mapping of cancer dependency genes and genetic modifiers of chemotherapy in high-risk hepatoblastoma

J Fang, S Singh, C Cheng, S Natarajan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A lack of relevant genetic models and cell lines hampers our understanding of
hepatoblastoma pathogenesis and the development of new therapies for this neoplasm …

Loss of Pip4k2c confers liver-metastatic organotropism through insulin-dependent PI3K-AKT pathway activation

M Rogava, TJ Aprati, WY Chi, JC Melms, C Hug… - Nature cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Liver metastasis (LM) confers poor survival and therapy resistance across cancer types, but
the mechanisms of liver-metastatic organotropism remain unknown. Here, through in vivo …

The tumor suppressor kinase DAPK3 drives tumor-intrinsic immunity through the STING–IFN-β pathway

M Takahashi, CWJ Lio, A Campeau, M Steger… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Evasion of host immunity is a hallmark of cancer; however, mechanisms linking oncogenic
mutations and immune escape are incompletely understood. Through loss-of-function …

DAPK3 inhibits gastric cancer progression via activation of ULK1-dependent autophagy

GM Li, L Li, MQ Li, X Chen, Q Su, ZJ Deng… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Dysregulation of the balance between cell proliferation and cell death is a central feature of
malignances. Death-associated protein kinase 3 (DAPK3) regulates programmed cell death …

VIRMA contributes to non-small cell lung cancer progression via N6-methyladenosine-dependent DAPK3 post-transcriptional modification

Y Xu, Y Chen, Y Yao, H Xie, G Lu, C Du, J Cheng… - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
ABSTRATE N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) has been reported to be abnormally expressed in
non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and plays a vital role in regulation of cell proliferation …

The DAPK family: a structure–function analysis

R Shiloh, S Bialik, A Kimchi - Apoptosis, 2014 - Springer
DAP-kinase (DAPK) is the founding member of a family of highly related, death associated
Ser/Thr kinases that belongs to the calmodulin (CaM)-regulated kinase superfamily. The …

Comprehensive profiling of amino acid response uncovers unique methionine-deprived response dependent on intact creatine biosynthesis

X Tang, MM Keenan, J Wu, CA Lin, L Dubois… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Besides being building blocks for protein synthesis, amino acids serve a wide variety of
cellular functions, including acting as metabolic intermediates for ATP generation and for …

Cigarette smoking induces aberrant N6-methyladenosine of DAPK2 to promote non-small cell lung cancer progression by activating NF-κB pathway

M Jin, G Li, W Liu, X Wu, J Zhu, D Zhao, Z Zeng… - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) has recently emerged as an important regulatory
mechanism for gene expression and aberrant m 6 A modification plays an important role in …