Lysosomes as a therapeutic target

SR Bonam, F Wang, S Muller - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles with roles in processes involved in degrading
and recycling cellular waste, cellular signalling and energy metabolism. Defects in genes …

Beyond PI3Ks: targeting phosphoinositide kinases in disease

JE Burke, J Triscott, BM Emerling… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Lipid phosphoinositides are master regulators of almost all aspects of a cell's life and death
and are generated by the tightly regulated activity of phosphoinositide kinases. Although …

Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drugs through large-scale compound repurposing

L Riva, S Yuan, X Yin, L Martin-Sancho, N Matsunaga… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019
has triggered an ongoing global pandemic of the severe pneumonia-like disease …

SARS-CoV-2 requires cholesterol for viral entry and pathological syncytia formation

DW Sanders, CC Jumper, PJ Ackerman, D Bracha… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Many enveloped viruses induce multinucleated cells (syncytia), reflective of membrane
fusion events caused by the same machinery that underlies viral entry. These syncytia are …

Haploinsufficiency leads to neurodegeneration in C9ORF72 ALS/FTD human induced motor neurons

Y Shi, S Lin, KA Staats, Y Li, WH Chang, ST Hung… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
An intronic GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common cause of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), but the pathogenic …

PIKfyve, expressed by CD11c-positive cells, controls tumor immunity

JE Choi, Y Qiao, I Kryczek, J Yu, J Gurkan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer treatment continues to shift from utilizing traditional therapies to targeted ones, such
as protein kinase inhibitors and immunotherapy. Mobilizing dendritic cells (DC) and other …

[HTML][HTML] ELAVL4, splicing, and glutamatergic dysfunction precede neuron loss in MAPT mutation cerebral organoids

KR Bowles, MC Silva, K Whitney, T Bertucci, JE Berlind… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) because of MAPT mutation causes pathological
accumulation of tau and glutamatergic cortical neuronal death by unknown mechanisms. We …

Inhibition of PIKfyve kinase prevents infection by Zaire ebolavirus and SARS-CoV-2

YL Kang, Y Chou, PW Rothlauf, Z Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Virus entry is a multistep process. It initiates when the virus attaches to the host cell and
ends when the viral contents reach the cytosol. Genetically unrelated viruses can subvert …

A molecular mechanism to regulate lysosome motility for lysosome positioning and tubulation

X Li, N Rydzewski, A Hider, X Zhang, J Yang… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
To mediate the degradation of biomacromolecules, lysosomes must traffic towards cargo-
carrying vesicles for subsequent membrane fusion or fission. Mutations of the lysosomal …

Roles of PIKfyve in multiple cellular pathways

P Rivero-Ríos, LS Weisman - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Phosphoinositide signaling lipids are crucial for eukaryotes and regulate many aspects of
cell function. These signaling molecules are difficult to study because they are extremely low …