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Review
. 2019 Jun;27(3):433-452.
doi: 10.1007/s10787-019-00589-2. Epub 2019 Mar 30.

Are peptides a solution for the treatment of hyperactivated JAK3 pathways?

Anja Dullius  1 , Claudia Monfroni Rocha  2 , Stefan Laufer  3 , Claucia Fernanda Volken de Souza  1 , Márcia Inês Goettert  4
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Are peptides a solution for the treatment of hyperactivated JAK3 pathways?

Anja Dullius et al. Inflammopharmacology. 2019 Jun.

Abstract

While the inactivation mutations that eliminate JAK3 function lead to the immunological disorders such as severe combined immunodeficiency, activation mutations, causing constitutive JAK3 signaling, are known to trigger various types of cancer or are responsible for autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, or inflammatory bowel diseases. Treatment of hyperactivated JAK3 is still an obstacle, due to different sensibility of mutation types to conventional drugs and unwanted side effects, because these drugs are not absolutely specific for JAK3, thus inhibiting other members of the JAK family, too. Lack of information, in which way sole inhibition of JAK3 is necessary for elimination of the disease, calls for the development of isoform-specific JAK3 inhibitors. Beside this strategy, up to date peptides are a rising alternative as chemo- or immunotherapeutics, but still sparsely represented in drug development and clinical trials. Beyond a possible direct inhibition function, crossing the cancer cell membrane and interfering in disease-causing pathways or triggering apoptosis, peptides could be used in future as adjunct remedies to potentialize traditional therapy and preserve non-affected cells. To discuss such feasible topics, this review deals with the knowledge about the structure-function of JAK3 and the actual state-of-the-art of isoform-specific inhibitor development, as well as the function of currently approved drugs or those currently being tested in clinical trials. Furthermore, several strategies for the application of peptide-based drugs for cancer therapy and the physicochemical and structural relations to peptide efficacy are discussed, and an overview of peptide sequences, which were qualified for clinical trials, is given.

Keywords: Activation mutations; Anticancer peptides; Immunotherapeutics; JAK3 inhibition; Kinase isoform selectivity; Peptide-based adjunct drugs.

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