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Structural Insights and Biological Effects of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3-specific Inhibitor AR-A014418

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AR-A014418 is the first compound of a family of specific inhibitors of GSK3 that does not significantly inhibit closely related kinases such as cdk2 or cdk5 and may have important applications as a tool to elucidate the role of Gsk3 in cellular signaling and possibly in Alzheimer's disease.
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This article is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.The article was published on 2003-11-14 and is currently open access. It has received 487 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: GSK-3 & ASK1.

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The selectivity of protein kinase inhibitors: a further update.

TL;DR: Harmine has been identified as a potent and specific inhibitor of DYRK1A (dual-specificity tyrosine-phosphorylated and -regulated kinase 1A) in vitro and the results have further emphasized the need for considerable caution in using small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinases to assess the physiological roles of these enzymes.
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GSK3 inhibitors: development and therapeutic potential

TL;DR: The biology of GK3 relevant to its potential as a target for diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases is described, and progress in the development of GSK3 inhibitors is discussed.
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Pharmacological inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase 3

TL;DR: A large body of evidence supports speculation that pharmacological inhibitors of GSK-3 could be used to treat several diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, bipolar affective disorder, diabetes, and diseases caused by unicellular parasites that express G SKS-3 homologues.
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PROCHECK: a program to check the stereochemical quality of protein structures

TL;DR: The PROCHECK suite of programs as mentioned in this paper provides a detailed check on the stereochemistry of a protein structure and provides an assessment of the overall quality of the structure as compared with well refined structures of the same resolution.
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Neuropathological stageing of Alzheimer-related changes.

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Relationship between the inhibition constant (K1) and the concentration of inhibitor which causes 50 per cent inhibition (I50) of an enzymatic reaction.

TL;DR: The analysis described shows K I does not equal I 50 when competitive inhibition kinetics apply; however, K I is equal to I 50 under conditions of either noncompetitive or uncompetitive kinetics.
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Specificity and mechanism of action of some commonly used protein kinase inhibitors

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the specificities of protein kinase inhibitors cannot be assessed simply by studying their effect on kinases that are closely related in primary structure, and proposes guidelines for the use of protein Kinase inhibitors in cell-based assays.
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A specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, 2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one (LY294002).

TL;DR: One such compound, 2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one, LY294002, completely and specifically abolished PtdIns 3-kinase activity, which may be beneficial in the treatment of proliferative diseases as well as in elucidating the biological role of the kinase in cellular proliferation and growth factor response.
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