Bromodomains: a new target class for drug development

AG Cochran, AR Conery, RJ Sims III - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Less than a decade ago, it was shown that bromodomains, acetyl lysine 'reader'modules
found in proteins with varied functions, were highly tractable small-molecule targets. This is …

Antimalarial drug discovery: Progress and approaches

JL Siqueira-Neto, KJ Wicht, K Chibale… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent antimalarial drug discovery has been a race to produce new medicines that
overcome emerging drug resistance, whilst considering safety and improving dosing …

Targeting epigenetic modifications in cancer therapy: erasing the roadmap to cancer

HP Mohammad, O Barbash, CL Creasy - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is a common feature of most cancers, often occurring directly
through alteration of epigenetic machinery. Over the last several years, a new generation of …

The chemical biology of reversible lysine post-translational modifications

ZA Wang, PA Cole - Cell chemical biology, 2020 - cell.com
Lysine (Lys) residues in proteins undergo a wide range of reversible post-translational
modifications (PTMs), which can regulate enzyme activities, chromatin structure, protein …

From triazolophthalazines to triazoloquinazolines: A bioisosterism-guided approach toward the identification of novel PCAF inhibitors with potential anticancer activity

MH El-Shershaby, A Ghiaty, AH Bayoumi… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inhibition of PCAF bromodomain has been validated as a promising strategy for the
treatment of cancer. In this study, we report the bioisosteric modification of the first reported …

A chemical toolbox for the study of bromodomains and epigenetic signaling

Q Wu, D Heidenreich, S Zhou, S Ackloo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bromodomains (BRDs) are conserved protein interaction modules which recognize (read)
acetyl-lysine modifications, however their role (s) in regulating cellular states and their …

Bromodomain drug discovery–the past, the present, and the future

M Pervaiz, P Mishra, S Günther - The Chemical Record, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With the bromodomain (BRD) inhibitor JQ1, a remarkable success story of BRD4 as a novel
drug target has been set off that yielded many anti‐cancer drugs that are now in clinical …

The GCN5: its biological functions and therapeutic potentials

ME Haque, M Jakaria, M Akther, DY Cho… - Clinical …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
General control non-depressible 5 (GCN5) or lysine acetyltransferase 2A (KAT2A) is one of
the most highly studied histone acetyltransferases. It acts as both histone acetyltransferase …

1, 2, 4-Triazolo [4, 3-c] quinazolines: a bioisosterism-guided approach towards the development of novel PCAF inhibitors with potential anticancer activity

MH El-Shershaby, A Ghiaty, AH Bayoumi… - New Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeting PCAF with small inhibitor molecules has emerged as a potential therapeutic
strategy for the treatment of cancer. Recently, L-45 was identified as a potent …

Recent advances on small-molecule bromodomain-containing histone acetyltransferase inhibitors

M Liu, K Zhang, Q Li, H Pang, Z Pan… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In recent years, substantial research has been conducted on molecular mechanisms and
inhibitors targeting bromodomains (BRDs) and extra-terminal (BET) family proteins. On this …