Drug repurposing in cancer

L Sleire, HE Førde, IA Netland, L Leiss, BS Skeie… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer is a major health issue worldwide, and the global burden of cancer is expected to
increase in the coming years. Whereas the limited success with current therapies has driven …

Revisiting the role of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase as a therapeutic target for cancer

JT Madak, A Bankhead III, CR Cuthbertson… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Identified as a hallmark of cancer, metabolic reprogramming allows cancer cells to rapidly
proliferate, resist chemotherapies, invade, metastasize, and survive a nutrient-deprived …

Nanowire-mediated delivery enables functional interrogation of primary immune cells: application to the analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

AK Shalek, JT Gaublomme, L Wang, N Yosef… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A circuit level understanding of immune cells and hematological cancers has been severely
impeded by a lack of techniques that enable intracellular perturbation without significantly …

Multiple sclerosis and cancer: the ying-yang effect of disease modifying therapies

E Melamed, MW Lee - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the past two decades, the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been transformed by the
rapidly expanding arsenal of new disease modifying therapies (DMTs). Current DMTs for MS …

Drug‐microenvironment perturbations reveal resistance mechanisms and prognostic subgroups in CLL

PM Bruch, HAR Giles, C Kolb, SA Herbst… - Molecular Systems …, 2022 - embopress.org
The tumour microenvironment and genetic alterations collectively influence drug efficacy in
cancer, but current evidence is limited and systematic analyses are lacking. Using chronic …

[HTML][HTML] Leflunomide/teriflunomide inhibit Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced lymphoproliferative disease and lytic viral replication

A Bilger, J Plowshay, S Ma, EA Barlow… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
EBV infection causes mononucleosis and is associated with specific subsets of B cell
lymphomas. Immunosuppressed patients such as organ transplant recipients are particularly …

Leflunomide: A promising drug with good antitumor potential

C Zhang, M Chu - Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Leflunomide, an inhibitor of dihydroorotase dehydrogenase and thereby pyrimidine
synthesis, was approved for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in 1998. During the following …

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of 4-quinoline carboxylic acids as inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase

JT Madak, CR Cuthbertson, Y Miyata… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We pursued a structure-guided approach toward the development of improved
dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) inhibitors with the goal of forming new interactions …

Acetylation modulates the STAT signaling code

M Wieczorek, T Ginter, P Brand, T Heinzel… - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2012 - Elsevier
A fascinating question of modern biology is how a limited number of signaling pathways
generate biological diversity and crosstalk phenomena in vivo. Well-defined …

The role of STATs in ovarian cancer: exploring their potential for therapy

D Standing, E Feess, S Kodiyalam, M Kuehn, Z Hamel… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Ovarian cancer remains the deadliest cancer of the female reproductive
system. There is a significant body of evidence that has demonstrated that Signal …