152 documents

Read All
00:38 , Aug 9, 2018 |  BC Innovations  |  Translation in Brief

Identifying the ubiquitinators

A team at University of Dundee and Newcastle University has developed a mass spectrometry-based screening platform to identify ubiquitin ligases and compounds that modulate them. The approach uses the uptake of ubiquitin by enzymes rather...
Read More
21:35 , Aug 3, 2018 |  BC Extra  |  Preclinical News

Mechanism identified behind thalidomide-induced birth defects

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute uncovered the mechanistic pathway by which thalidomide and two related analogs cause severe fetal harm, answering a long-held question about the three teratogenic drugs now used as cancer therapies. The insight...
Read More
20:12 , Aug 1, 2018 |  BC Innovations  |  Distillery Techniques

Assays and screens

TECHNOLOGY: Cell-free assays; high throughput screening A high throughput, mass spectrometry-based screening assay could identify E3 ligase inhibitors and interactive pairs of E2/E3 ubiquitination enzymes as potential drug targets. For the latter, the method involves combining...
Read More
17:50 , Jul 20, 2018 |  BC Week In Review  |  Company News

PTC acquiring CNS gene therapy play Agilis

PTC Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTCT) will acquire gene therapy company Agilis Biotherapeutics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), giving the rare disease company four products in development for CNS disorders. PTC will pay Agilis shareholders about $200 million up front,...
Read More
22:43 , Jul 19, 2018 |  BC Extra  |  Company News

PTC acquiring CNS gene therapy play Agilis

PTC Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:PTCT) will acquire gene therapy company Agilis Biotherapeutics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), giving the rare disease company four products in development for CNS disorders. PTC will pay Agilis shareholders about $200 million up...
Read More
21:43 , Jul 12, 2018 |  BC Innovations  |  Translation in Brief

New Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers: June 2018

New Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers: June 2018 Select top therapeutic targets and biomarkers covered by BioCentury or added to the BCIQ database during June 2018. Therapeutic targets are defined as any protein, gene or other molecule...
Read More
18:18 , Jun 13, 2018 |  BC Innovations  |  Distillery Therapeutics

Cardiovascular

INDICATION: Heart failure Patient sample and cell culture studies suggest inhibiting microtubule detyrosination or promoting expression of tubulin tyrosine ligase (TTL) could help treat heart failure. In left ventricular tissue samples from patients, the density of...
Read More
23:28 , Jun 7, 2018 |  BC Innovations  |  Translation in Brief

New Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers: May 2018

New Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers: May 2018 Select top therapeutic targets and biomarkers covered by BioCentury or added to the BCIQ database during May 2018. Therapeutic targets are defined as any protein, gene or other molecule...
Read More
22:15 , May 11, 2018 |  BC Extra  |  Preclinical News

Inhibiting the ubiquitin ligase RNF5 to treat CF

In a paper published in Cell Chemical Biology, Italian researchers identified a pharmacological inhibitor of ring finger protein 5 (RNF5) that prevented the premature degradation of mutant F508del cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein,...
Read More
16:18 , May 3, 2018 |  BC Innovations  |  Distillery Therapeutics

Infectious disease

INDICATION: Tuberculosis Cell culture and mouse studies suggest a biotinoyl-deoxyadenosine-based inhibitor of M. tuberculosis BirA could help treat tuberculosis (TB) and reduce drug resistance. In M. tuberculosis cultures, a previously reported biotinylated analog of deoxyadenosine that...
Read More