Interaction of calcineurin with substrates and targeting proteins

H Li, A Rao, PG Hogan - Trends in cell biology, 2011 - cell.com
Calcineurin is a calcium activated protein phosphatase with a major role in calcium
signaling in diverse cells and organs and clinical importance as the target of the …

Novel inhibitors of the calcineurin/NFATc hub-alternatives to CsA and FK506?

M Sieber, R Baumgrass - Cell Communication and Signaling, 2009 - Springer
The drugs cyclosporine A (CsA) and tacrolimus (FK506) revolutionized organ
transplantation. Both compounds are still widely used in the clinic as well as for basic …

Targeting CaN/NFAT in Alzheimer's brain degeneration

J Mackiewicz, M Lisek, T Boczek - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive
loss of cognitive functions. While the exact causes of this debilitating disorder remain …

Twenty years after ACEIs and ARBs: emerging treatment strategies for diabetic nephropathy

SA Johnson, RF Spurney - American Journal of Physiology …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a serious complication of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes
mellitus. The disease is now the most common cause of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) …

Wnt7b-induced Sox11 functions enhance self-renewal and osteogenic commitment of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

F Yu, F Wu, F Li, X Liao, Y Wang, X Li, C Wang… - Stem Cells, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As a profoundly anabolic regulator of bone, Wnt7b is well acknowledged to enhance
osteoblast activities. Here, we report that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) …

Quantitative mapping of protein-peptide affinity landscapes using spectrally encoded beads

HQ Nguyen, J Roy, B Harink, NP Damle, NR Latorraca… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Transient, regulated binding of globular protein domains to Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs) in
disordered regions of other proteins drives cellular signaling. Mapping the energy …

Pathogenesis and targeted treatment of skin injury in SLE

GM Deng, GC Tsokos - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2015 - nature.com
Skin is the second most common organ (after the kidney) to be affected in patients with
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet the aetiology of skin injury and the mechanisms …

Pharmacological strategies for mitigating anti-TNF biologic immunogenicity in rheumatoid arthritis patients

CA Fernandez - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) inhibitors are a mainstay of treatment for rheumatoid
arthritis (RA) patients after failed responses to conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic …

Regulation of RCAN1 protein activity by Dyrk1A protein-mediated phosphorylation

MS Jung, JH Park, YS Ryu, SH Choi, SH Yoon… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Two genes on chromosome 21, namely dual specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated
kinase 1A (Dyrk1A) and regulator of calcineurin 1 (RCAN1), have been implicated in some …

ILC3-derived OX40L is essential for homeostasis of intestinal Tregs in immunodeficient mice

T Deng, C Suo, J Chang, R Yang, J Li, T Cai… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
OX40L is one of the co-stimulatory molecules that can be expressed by splenic lymphoid
tissue inducer (Lti) cells, a subset of group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s). OX40L …