Novel therapeutic applications of cardiac glycosides

I Prassas, EP Diamandis - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2008 - nature.com
Cardiac glycosides are a diverse family of naturally derived compounds that bind to and
inhibit Na+/K+-ATPase. Members of this family have been in clinical use for many years for …

Anticancer steroids: linking natural and semi-synthetic compounds

JAR Salvador, JFS Carvalho, MAC Neves… - Natural product …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2012 Steroids, a widespread class of natural organic compounds occurring
in animals, plants and fungi, have shown great therapeutic value for a broad array of …

Digoxin and its derivatives suppress TH17 cell differentiation by antagonizing RORγt activity

JR Huh, MWL Leung, P Huang, DA Ryan, MR Krout… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
CD4+ T helper lymphocytes that express interleukin-17 (TH17 cells) have critical roles in
mouse models of autoimmunity, and there is mounting evidence that they also influence …

Protein glycosylation in cancers and its potential therapeutic applications in neuroblastoma

WL Ho, WM Hsu, MC Huang, K Kadomatsu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2016 - Springer
Glycosylation is the most complex post-translational modification of proteins. Altered glycans
on the tumor-and host-cell surface and in the tumor microenvironment have been identified …

A novel two-stage, transdisciplinary study identifies digoxin as a possible drug for prostate cancer treatment

EA Platz, S Yegnasubramanian, JO Liu, CR Chong… - Cancer discovery, 2011 - AACR
Identification of novel indications for commonly prescribed drugs could accelerate
translation of therapies. We investigated whether any clinically used drugs might be useful in …

The ubiquitin-activating enzyme E1 as a therapeutic target for the treatment of leukemia and multiple myeloma

GW Xu, M Ali, TE Wood, D Wong… - Blood, The Journal …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
The proteasomal pathway of protein degradation involves 2 discrete steps: ubiquitination
and degradation. Here, we evaluated the effects of inhibiting the ubiquitination pathway at …

The antihelmintic flubendazole inhibits microtubule function through a mechanism distinct from Vinca alkaloids and displays preclinical activity in leukemia and …

PA Spagnuolo, J Hu, R Hurren, X Wang… - Blood, The Journal …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
On-patent and off-patent drugs with previously unrecognized anticancer activity could be
rapidly repurposed for this new indication given their prior toxicity testing. To identify such …

Evaluating the cancer therapeutic potential of cardiac glycosides

JM Calderón-Montaño, E Burgos-Morón… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac glycosides, also known as cardiotonic steroids, are a group of natural products that
share a steroid‐like structure with an unsaturated lactone ring and the ability to induce …

Glycan changes: cancer metastasis and anti-cancer vaccines

M Li, L Song, X Qin - Journal of biosciences, 2010 - Springer
Complex carbohydrates, which are major components of the cell membrane, perform
important functions in cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions, as well as in signal …

Gastric cancer: adding glycosylation to the equation

SS Pinho, S Carvalho, R Marcos-Pinto… - Trends in molecular …, 2013 - cell.com
Gastric cancer has a high incidence and mortality, so there is a pressing need to understand
the underlying molecular mechanisms in order to discover novel biomarkers. Glycosylation …