JAK–STAT pathway targeting for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

A Salas, C Hernandez-Rocha, M Duijvestein… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Cytokines are involved in intestinal homeostasis and pathological processes associated
with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The biological effects of cytokines, including several …

Therapeutically exploiting STAT3 activity in cancer—using tissue repair as a road map

J Huynh, A Chand, D Gough, M Ernst - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
The tightly orchestrated temporal and spatial control of signal transducer and activator of
transcription 3 (STAT3) activity in epithelial, immune and stromal cells is critical for wound …

Recent update on development of small-molecule STAT3 inhibitors for cancer therapy: from phosphorylation inhibition to protein degradation

J Dong, XD Cheng, WD Zhang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is a transcription factor that
regulates various biological processes, including proliferation, metastasis, angiogenesis …

Oxidative phosphorylation as an emerging target in cancer therapy

TM Ashton, WG McKenna, LA Kunz-Schughart… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Cancer cells have upregulated glycolysis compared with normal cells, which has led many
to the assumption that oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is downregulated in all cancers …

Improving cancer immunotherapy by rationally combining oncolytic virus with modulators targeting key signaling pathways

Z Zhu, AJR McGray, W Jiang, B Lu, P Kalinski, ZS Guo - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) represent a new class of multi-modal immunotherapies for cancer,
with OV-elicited antitumor immunity being key to their overall therapeutic efficacy. Currently …

Targeting tumor hypoxia and mitochondrial metabolism with anti-parasitic drugs to improve radiation response in high-grade gliomas

F Mudassar, H Shen, G O'Neill, E Hau - Journal of Experimental & Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract High-grade gliomas (HGGs), including glioblastoma and diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma, are amongst the most fatal brain tumors. These tumors are associated with a dismal …

Why all the fuss about oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS)?

Y Xu, D Xue, A Bankhead III… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Certain subtypes of cancer cells require oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) to survive.
Increased OXPHOS dependency is frequently a hallmark of cancer stem cells and cells …

The role and therapeutic targeting of JAK/STAT signaling in glioblastoma

A Ou, M Ott, D Fang, AB Heimberger - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastoma is one of the most treatment-refractory human malignancies,
and despite techniques that have allowed scientists and clinicians to better understand the …

[HTML][HTML] Novel activators and small-molecule inhibitors of STAT3 in cancer

L Yang, S Lin, L Xu, J Lin, C Zhao, X Huang - Cytokine & Growth Factor …, 2019 - Elsevier
Excessive activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling is
observed in a subset of many cancers, making activated STAT3 a highly promising potential …

OXPHOS-targeting drugs in oncology: new perspectives

B Kalyanaraman, G Cheng, M Hardy… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Drugs targeting mitochondria are emerging as promising antitumor therapeutics
in preclinical models. However, a few of these drugs have shown clinical toxicity …