María Navarro-Pérez, Jesusa Capera, Anna Benavente-Garcia, Silvia Cassinelli, Magalí Colomer-Molera, Antonio Felipe
{"title":"Kv1.3 in the spotlight for treating immune diseases.","authors":"María Navarro-Pérez, Jesusa Capera, Anna Benavente-Garcia, Silvia Cassinelli, Magalí Colomer-Molera, Antonio Felipe","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2024.2315021","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14728222.2024.2315021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Kv1.3 is the main voltage-gated potassium channel of leukocytes from both the innate and adaptive immune systems. Channel function is required for common processes such as Ca<sup>2+</sup> signaling but also for cell-specific events. In this context, alterations in Kv1.3 are associated with multiple immune disorders. Excessive channel activity correlates with numerous autoimmune diseases, while reduced currents result in increased cancer prevalence and immunodeficiencies.</p><p><strong>Areas covered: </strong>This review offers a general view of the role of Kv1.3 in every type of leukocyte. Moreover, diseases stemming from dysregulations of the channel are detailed, as well as current advances in their therapeutic research.</p><p><strong>Expert opinion: </strong>Kv1.3 arises as a potential immune target in a variety of diseases. Several lines of research focused on channel modulation have yielded positive results. However, among the great variety of specific channel blockers, only one has reached clinical trials. Future investigations should focus on developing simpler administration routes for channel inhibitors to facilitate their entrance into clinical trials. Prospective Kv1.3-based treatments will ensure powerful therapies while minimizing undesired side effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":" ","pages":"67-82"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139691589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rahul Shetty, Roberto Noland, Ghata Nandi, Carolyn K Suzuki
{"title":"Powering down the mitochondrial LonP1 protease: a novel strategy for anticancer therapeutics.","authors":"Rahul Shetty, Roberto Noland, Ghata Nandi, Carolyn K Suzuki","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2298358","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2298358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Mitochondrial LonP1 is an ATP-powered protease that also functions as an ATP-dependent chaperone. LonP1 plays a pivotal role in regulating mitochondrial proteostasis, metabolism and cell stress responses. Cancer cells exploit the functions of LonP1 to combat oncogenic stressors such as hypoxia, proteotoxicity, and oxidative stress, and to reprogram energy metabolism enabling cancer cell proliferation, chemoresistance, and metastasis.</p><p><strong>Areas covered: </strong>LonP1 has emerged as a potential target for anti-cancer therapeutics. We review how cytoprotective functions of LonP1 can be leveraged by cancer cells to support oncogenic growth, proliferation, and survival. We also offer insights into small molecule inhibitors that target LonP1 by two distinct mechanisms: competitive inhibition of its protease activity and allosteric inhibition of its ATPase activity, both of which are crucial for its protease and chaperone functions.</p><p><strong>Expert opinion: </strong>We highlight advantages of identifying specific, high-affinity allosteric inhibitors blocking the ATPase activity of LonP1. The future discovery of such inhibitors has potential application either alone or in conjunction with other anticancer agents, presenting an innovative approach and target for cancer therapeutics.</p>","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":" ","pages":"9-15"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10939840/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139058266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mario Zoratti, Lucia Biasutto, Sofia Parrasia, Ildikó Szabo
{"title":"Mitochondrial permeability transition pore: a snapshot of a therapeutic target.","authors":"Mario Zoratti, Lucia Biasutto, Sofia Parrasia, Ildikó Szabo","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2024.2306337","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14728222.2024.2306337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139485315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TGF-β as a therapeutic target in the infarcted and failing heart: cellular mechanisms, challenges, and opportunities.","authors":"Nikolaos G Frangogiannis","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2024.2316735","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14728222.2024.2316735","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Myocardial fibrosis accompanies most cardiac conditions and can be reparative or maladaptive. Transforming Growth Factor (TGF)-β is a potent fibrogenic mediator, involved in repair, remodeling, and fibrosis of the injured heart.</p><p><strong>Areas covered: </strong>This review manuscript discusses the role of TGF-β in heart failure focusing on cellular mechanisms and therapeutic implications. TGF-β is activated in infarcted, remodeling and failing hearts. In addition to its fibrogenic actions, TGF-β has a broad range of effects on cardiomyocytes, immune, and vascular cells that may have both protective and detrimental consequences. TGF-β-mediated effects on macrophages promote anti-inflammatory transition, whereas actions on fibroblasts mediate reparative scar formation and effects on pericytes are involved in maturation of infarct neovessels. On the other hand, TGF-β actions on cardiomyocytes promote adverse remodeling, and prolonged activation of TGF-β signaling in fibroblasts stimulates progression of fibrosis and heart failure.</p><p><strong>Expert opinion: </strong>Understanding of the cell-specific actions of TGF-β is necessary to design therapeutic strategies in patients with myocardial disease. Moreover, to implement therapeutic interventions in the heterogeneous population of heart failure patients, mechanism-driven classification of both HFrEF and HFpEF patients is needed. Heart failure patients with prolonged or overactive fibrogenic TGF-β responses may benefit from cautious TGF-β inhibition.</p>","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":" ","pages":"45-56"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139706440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feba Benny, Sunil Kumar, Aiswarya Binu, Della Grace Thomas Parambi, Tariq G. Alsahli, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Namitha Chandran, Deepthi S. Manisha, Sarath Sreekumar, Akanksha Bhatt, Krishnadas Madhu, Bijo Mathew
{"title":"Targeting GABA receptors with chalcone derivative compounds, what is the evidence?","authors":"Feba Benny, Sunil Kumar, Aiswarya Binu, Della Grace Thomas Parambi, Tariq G. Alsahli, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Namitha Chandran, Deepthi S. Manisha, Sarath Sreekumar, Akanksha Bhatt, Krishnadas Madhu, Bijo Mathew","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2293752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14728222.2023.2293752","url":null,"abstract":"In medicinal chemistry, privileged structures have been frequently exploited as a successful template for drug discovery. Common simple scaffolds like chalcone are present in a wide range of natura...","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138744395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jason Wang, Reuben Ben-David, Reza Mehrazin, Wei Yang, Ashutosh K. Tewari, Natasha Kyprianou
{"title":"Novel signatures of prostate cancer progression and therapeutic resistance","authors":"Jason Wang, Reuben Ben-David, Reza Mehrazin, Wei Yang, Ashutosh K. Tewari, Natasha Kyprianou","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2293757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14728222.2023.2293757","url":null,"abstract":"The extensive heterogeneity of prostate cancer (PCa) and multilayered complexity of progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) has contributed to the challenges of accurately monito...","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":"198 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How will the identification and therapeutic intervention of genetic targets in oncology evolve for future therapy?","authors":"Paolo Baldo, Valli De Re, Mattia Garutti","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2295493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14728222.2023.2295493","url":null,"abstract":"Mapping of the human genome, together with the broad understanding of new biomolecular pathways involved in cancer development, represents a huge dividing line for advances in cancer treatment. Thi...","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138691716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zahra Hendi, Pedram Asadi Sarabi, David Hay, Massoud Vosough
{"title":"XBP1 as a novel molecular target to attenuate drug resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma","authors":"Zahra Hendi, Pedram Asadi Sarabi, David Hay, Massoud Vosough","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2293746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14728222.2023.2293746","url":null,"abstract":"Despite improvements in clinical management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), prognosis remains poor with a 5-year survival rate less than 40%. Drug resistance in HCC makes it challenging to treat...","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138716661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advances in targeting the extracellular matrix for glaucoma therapy: current updates","authors":"R. Agarwal, I. Iezhitsa","doi":"10.1080/14728222.2023.2293748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14728222.2023.2293748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12185,"journal":{"name":"Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets","volume":"27 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}