From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics

K Trajanoska, C Bhérer, D Taliun, S Zhou, JB Richards… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The substantial investments in human genetics and genomics made over the past three
decades were anticipated to result in many innovative therapies. Here we investigate the …

From CFTR biology toward combinatorial pharmacotherapy: expanded classification of cystic fibrosis mutations

G Veit, RG Avramescu, AN Chiang… - Molecular biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
More than 2000 mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) have been described that confer a range of molecular cell biological and functional …

Extended-connectivity fingerprints

D Rogers, M Hahn - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2010 - ACS Publications
Extended-connectivity fingerprints (ECFPs) are a novel class of topological fingerprints for
molecular characterization. Historically, topological fingerprints were developed for …

Folding and misfolding of human membrane proteins in health and disease: from single molecules to cellular proteostasis

JT Marinko, H Huang, WD Penn, JA Capra… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Advances over the past 25 years have revealed much about how the structural properties of
membranes and associated proteins are linked to the thermodynamics and kinetics of …

New substructure filters for removal of pan assay interference compounds (PAINS) from screening libraries and for their exclusion in bioassays

JB Baell, GA Holloway - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
This report describes a number of substructural features which can help to identify
compounds that appear as frequent hitters (promiscuous compounds) in many biochemical …

Some gating potentiators, including VX-770, diminish ΔF508-CFTR functional expression

G Veit, RG Avramescu, D Perdomo… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane regulator (CFTR) that
result in reduced anion conductance at the apical membrane of secretory epithelia …

CFTR: folding, misfolding and correcting the ΔF508 conformational defect

GL Lukacs, AS Verkman - Trends in molecular medicine, 2012 - cell.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common lethal genetic disease in the Caucasian population, is
caused by loss-of-function mutations of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator …

Potentiator ivacaftor abrogates pharmacological correction of ΔF508 CFTR in cystic fibrosis

DM Cholon, NL Quinney, ML Fulcher… - Science translational …, 2014 - science.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR). Newly developed “correctors” such as lumacaftor (VX-809) that improve CFTR …

CFTR function and prospects for therapy

JR Riordan - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Mutations in the gene coding for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
(CFTR) epithelial anion channel cause cystic fibrosis (CF). The multidomain integral …

Rescue of ΔF508-CFTR trafficking and gating in human cystic fibrosis airway primary cultures by small molecules

F Van Goor, KS Straley, D Cao… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal genetic disease caused by mutations in cftr, a gene encoding a
PKA-regulated Cl− channel. The most common mutation results in a deletion of …