Su-Lin Zhang

Targeting the FOXP3—T-bet interaction to restore Treg stability in IFN-γ—driven autoimmunity 2254306

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) maintain immune homeostasis through FOXP3-centered transcriptional complexes that tightly control lineage stability and suppressive function. However, how specific FOXP3 mutations disturb this complex and drive pathogenic Treg reprogramming in IPEX syndrome remains unclear. We identifie...

Targeting the FOXP3-T-bet interaction to restore Treg stability in IFN-γ-driven autoimmunity.

Development of potent and selective ENPP1 inhibitors based on imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine and pyrazine scaffolds for cancer immunotherapy.

In this study, new imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine derivative 15 (YS3074) and pyrazine derivative 17 (YS3375) are identified and optimized as potent and selective ENPP1 inhibitors. Compounds 15 and 17 both exhibited high potency and selectivity toward ENPP1 (IC50 = 4.23 nM and 19.4 nM, respectively) with negligible ENPP2 inhibi...

Mapping Non-Homologous Pocket Compatibilities to Identify Hidden Drug-Target Relationships: A Pocket Hopping Framework.

Predicting small molecule-protein interactions across nonhomologous proteins remains challenging because shared ligand recognition is often not evident from sequence, fold, or pocket similarity. Here, we introduce pocket hopping, a machine-learning framework that learns residue-level interaction patterns from coligand...