Natural products/bioactive compounds as a source of anticancer drugs

ST Asma, U Acaroz, K Imre, A Morar, SRA Shah… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancer is considered as a large group of diseases involving abnormal cell
growth, which results in an alarming rise in the mortality rate at the worldwide level …

Halogen atoms in the modern medicinal chemistry: hints for the drug design

MZ Hernandes, SMT Cavalcanti… - Current drug …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
A significant number of drugs and drug candidates in clinical development are halogenated
structures. For a long time, insertion of halogen atoms on hit or lead compounds was …

Cyclin-dependent kinase pathways as targets for cancer treatment

GI Shapiro - Journal of clinical oncology, 2006 - ascopubs.org
Cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) are critical regulators of cell cycle progression and RNA
transcription. A variety of genetic and epigenetic events cause universal overactivity of the …

Untangling tau hyperphosphorylation in drug design for neurodegenerative diseases

MP Mazanetz, PM Fischer - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2007 - nature.com
Aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau is one of the characteristic neuropathological
lesions of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Pharmacological …

Overview of CDK9 as a target in cancer research

F Morales, A Giordano - Cell Cycle, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT CDK9 is a protein in constant development in cancer therapy. Herein we
present an overview of the enzyme as a target for cancer therapy. We provide data on its …

Role of plants in anticancer drug discovery

J Khazir, BA Mir, L Pilcher, DL Riley - Phytochemistry letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the major causes of death and the number of new cases, as well as the
number of individuals living with cancer, is expanding continuously. Worldwide the alarming …

Cyclin-dependent kinase-2 as a target for cancer therapy: progress in the development of CDK2 inhibitors as anti-cancer agents

TA Chohan, H Qian, Y Pan… - Current medicinal …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Cyclin-dependent kinase-2 (CDK2) is a member of protein kinase family. It plays an
important role in regulating various events of eukaryotic cell division cycle. Accumulated …

Flavopiridol administered using a pharmacologically derived schedule is associated with marked clinical efficacy in refractory, genetically high-risk chronic …

JC Byrd, TS Lin, JT Dalton, D Wu, MA Phelps, B Fischer… - Blood, 2007 - ashpublications.org
Despite promising preclinical studies with the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor flavopiridol
in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and other diseases, previous clinical trials with this …

Cyclin-dependent kinase 9: a key transcriptional regulator and potential drug target in oncology, virology and cardiology

S Wang, PM Fischer - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Unlike other CDKs, CDK9 does not regulate the cell cycle but promotes RNA synthesis in
genetic programmes for cell growth, differentiation and viral pathogenesis. It is becoming …

4-Arylazo-3,5-diamino-1H-pyrazole CDK Inhibitors:  SAR Study, Crystal Structure in Complex with CDK2, Selectivity, and Cellular Effects

V Kryštof, P Cankař, I Fryšová, J Slouka… - Journal of medicinal …, 2006 - ACS Publications
In a routine screening of our small-molecule compound collection we recently identified 4-
arylazo-3, 5-diamino-1 H-pyrazoles as a novel group of ATP antagonists with moderate …