Targeting protein phosphatases in cancer immunotherapy and autoimmune disorders

SM Stanford, N Bottini - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Protein phosphatases act as key regulators of multiple important cellular processes and are
attractive therapeutic targets for various diseases. Although extensive effort has been …

[HTML][HTML] Redox active or thiol reactive? Optimization of rapid screens to identify less evident nuisance compounds

M Proj, D Knez, I Sosič, S Gobec - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Compounds that exhibit assay interference or undesirable mechanisms of bioactivity are
routinely encountered in assays at various stages of drug discovery. We observed that …

PRL3 pseudophosphatase activity is necessary and sufficient to promote metastatic growth

G Kozlov, Y Funato, YS Chen, Z Zhang, K Illes… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Phosphatases of regenerating liver (PRLs) are markers of cancer and promote tumor
growth. They have been implicated in a variety of biochemical pathways but the …

[HTML][HTML] Ganoderma lucidum Polysaccharide Peptide Alleviates Cyclophosphamide-Induced Male Reproductive Injury by Reducing Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis

H Zhang, N Li, Y Zhang, Y Xu, F Lu, D Lin, S Lin, M Li… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Chemotherapy is an important factor leading to male infertility. It is crucial to discover safe
and effective treatments to prevent male reproductive injury caused by chemotherapy. The …

The double lives of phosphatases of regenerating liver: A structural view of their catalytic and noncatalytic activities

K Gehring, G Kozlov, M Yang, R Fakih - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
Phosphatases of regenerating liver (PRLs) are protein phosphatases involved in the control
of cell growth and migration. They are known to promote cancer metastasis but, despite over …

Development of a high-throughput screening system targeting the protein-protein interactions between PRL and CNNM

Y Funato, M Mimura, K Nunomura, B Lin, S Fujii… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Phosphatase of regenerating liver (PRL) is an oncogenic protein that promotes tumor
progression by directly binding to cyclin M (CNNM) membrane proteins and inhibiting their …

[HTML][HTML] The emerging roles and therapeutic potential of cyclin M/CorC family of Mg2+ transporters

Y Funato, H Miki - Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Cyclin M (CNNM) and its prokaryotic ortholog CorC belong to a family of proteins that
function as Mg 2+-extruding transporters by stimulating Na+/Mg 2+ exchange, and thereby …

Phosphatase‐independent role of phosphatase of regenerating liver in cancer progression

Y Funato, O Hashizume, H Miki - Cancer Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphatase of regenerating liver (PRL) is a family of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs)
that are anchored to the plasma membrane by prenylation. They are frequently …

Tapping the therapeutic potential of protein tyrosine phosphatase 4A with small molecule inhibitors

NR Tasker, EJ Rastelli, JC Burnett, ER Sharlow… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are emerging new targets for drug discovery. PTPs
and protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) maintain cellular homeostasis through opposing roles …

Targeting Moonlighting Enzymes in Cancer

C Lin, M Yu, X Wu, H Wang, M Wei, L Zhang - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Moonlighting enzymes are multifunctional proteins that perform multiple functions beyond
their primary role as catalytic enzymes. Extensive research and clinical practice have …