From purines to purinergic signalling: molecular functions and human diseases

Z Huang, N Xie, P Illes, F Di Virgilio, H Ulrich… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Purines and their derivatives, most notably adenosine and ATP, are the key molecules
controlling intracellular energy homoeostasis and nucleotide synthesis. Besides, these …

Altered glucose metabolism in Alzheimer's disease: role of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress

S Dewanjee, P Chakraborty, H Bhattacharya… - Free Radical Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence suggests that abnormal cerebral glucose metabolism is largely present
in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The brain utilizes glucose as its main energy source and a …

An atlas of substrate specificities for the human serine/threonine kinome

JL Johnson, TM Yaron, EM Huntsman, A Kerelsky… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Protein phosphorylation is one of the most widespread post-translational modifications in
biology,. With advances in mass-spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics, 90,000 sites of …

Crosstalk between circRNAs and the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in cancer progression

C Xue, G Li, J Lu, L Li - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Circular RNAs (circRNAs), covalently closed noncoding RNAs, are widely expressed in
eukaryotes and viruses. They can function by regulating target gene expression, linear RNA …

mTOR signaling in cancer and mTOR inhibitors in solid tumor targeting therapy

T Tian, X Li, J Zhang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The mammalian or mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway plays a crucial role in
regulation of cell survival, metabolism, growth and protein synthesis in response to upstream …

Signaling and function of interleukin-2 in T lymphocytes

SH Ross, DA Cantrell - Annual review of immunology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of interleukin-2 (IL-2) changed the molecular understanding of how the
immune system is controlled. IL-2 is a pleiotropic cytokine, and dissecting the signaling …

The role of mTOR signaling as a therapeutic target in cancer

NV Popova, M Jücker - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this review was to summarize current available information about the role of
phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling …

[HTML][HTML] The crucial role of protein phosphorylation in cell signaling and its use as targeted therapy

F Ardito, M Giuliani, D Perrone… - International …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Protein phosphorylation is an important cellular regulatory mechanism as many enzymes
and receptors are activated/deactivated by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation events …

Epidermal growth factor receptor cell proliferation signaling pathways

P Wee, Z Wang - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a receptor tyrosine kinase that is commonly
upregulated in cancers such as in non-small-cell lung cancer, metastatic colorectal cancer …

The PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells

I Nepstad, KJ Hatfield, IS Grønningsæter… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by
uncontrolled proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow. Malignant cell …