Advances in covalent drug discovery

L Boike, NJ Henning, DK Nomura - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent drugs have been used to treat diseases for more than a century, but tools that
facilitate the rational design of covalent drugs have emerged more recently. The purposeful …

Advances and challenges in therapeutic targeting of NRF2

AT Dinkova-Kostova, IM Copple - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Activation of the transcription factor nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) is
emerging as an attractive therapeutic approach to counteract oxidative stress, inflammation …

Targeting immunometabolism as an anti-inflammatory strategy

EM Pålsson-McDermott, LAJ O'Neill - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
The growing field of immunometabolism has taught us how metabolic cellular reactions and
processes not only provide a means to generate ATP and biosynthetic precursors, but are …

[HTML][HTML] An activity-guided map of electrophile-cysteine interactions in primary human T cells

EV Vinogradova, X Zhang, D Remillard, DC Lazar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Electrophilic compounds originating from nature or chemical synthesis have profound effects
on immune cells. These compounds are thought to act by cysteine modification to alter the …

NRF2 as a regulator of cell metabolism and inflammation in cancer

F He, L Antonucci, M Karin - Carcinogenesis, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nuclear factor erythroid 2‐related factor 2 (NRF2) is a master transcriptional regulator of
genes whose products defend our cells for toxic and oxidative insults. Although NRF2 …

Click chemistry in proteomic investigations

CG Parker, MR Pratt - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Despite advances in genetic and proteomic techniques, a complete portrait of the proteome
and its complement of dynamic interactions and modifications remains a lofty, and as of yet …

Psoriasis: recent progress in molecular‐targeted therapies

M Honma, K Hayashi - The Journal of Dermatology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Psoriasis is a multifactorial recalcitrant inflammatory skin disease characterized by
bothersome scaly reddish plaques especially on frequently chafed body parts, such as the …

Accelerating multiplexed profiling of protein-ligand interactions: high-throughput plate-based reactive cysteine profiling with minimal input

K Yang, RL Whitehouse, SL Dawson, L Zhang… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Chemoproteomics has made significant progress in investigating small-molecule-protein
interactions. However, the proteome-wide profiling of cysteine ligandability remains …

[HTML][HTML] Dimethyl fumarate: A review of preclinical efficacy in models of neurodegenerative diseases

I Majkutewicz - European Journal of Pharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) is an antioxidative and anti-inflammatory drug approved for
treatment of multiple sclerosis and psoriasis; however, beneficial effects of DMF have also …

Wdr1 and cofilin are necessary mediators of immune-cell-specific apoptosis triggered by Tecfidera

JR Poganik, KT Huang, S Parvez, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the emerging importance of reactive electrophilic drugs, deconvolution of their
principal targets remains difficult. The lack of genetic tractability/interventions and reliance …