Scientist identifies new target for wide array of cancers – Mirage News

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. –  Many types of human cancers exhibit changes in kinase and phosphatase balances. Drugs that inhibit kinase activity have shown success in the clinic as cancer therapeutics, but the phosphatases still remain a largely underexploited target class due primarily to the lack of understanding of how they cause diseases.
Purdue University’s Zhong-Yin Zhang‘s team has discovered a novel “phosphatase cascade” that plays a critical role in pancreas, liver, kidney, lung, breast, pro…

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