Molecular photoswitches in aqueous environments

J Volarić, W Szymanski, NA Simeth… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular photoswitches enable dynamic control of processes with high spatiotemporal
precision, using light as external stimulus, and hence are ideal tools for different research …

DNA damage response signaling pathways and targets for radiotherapy sensitization in cancer

RX Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is one of the most common countermeasures for treating a wide range of
tumors. However, the radioresistance of cancer cells is still a major limitation for …

Radiotherapy as a tool to elicit clinically actionable signalling pathways in cancer

G Petroni, LC Cantley, L Santambrogio… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A variety of targeted anticancer agents have been successfully introduced into clinical
practice, largely reflecting their ability to inhibit specific molecular alterations that are …

Sulfoximines as rising stars in modern drug discovery? Current status and perspective on an emerging functional group in medicinal chemistry

P Mäder, L Kattner - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sulfoximines have been largely disregarded in medicinal chemistry for a long time.
However, recently, they have risen to the apparent level of stardom on the drug discovery …

Medicinal chemistry of indole derivatives: Current to future therapeutic prospectives

A Kumari, RK Singh - Bioorganic chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Indole is a versatile pharmacophore, a privileged scaffold and an outstanding heterocyclic
compound with wide ranges of pharmacological activities due to different mechanisms of …

DNA repair pathways in cancer therapy and resistance

L Li, Y Guan, X Chen, J Yang, Y Cheng - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
DNA repair pathways are triggered to maintain genetic stability and integrity when
mammalian cells are exposed to endogenous or exogenous DNA-damaging agents. The …

Combining PARP with ATR inhibition overcomes PARP inhibitor and platinum resistance in ovarian cancer models

H Kim, H Xu, E George, D Hallberg, S Kumar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OVCA) inevitably acquires resistance to platinum chemotherapy and PARP
inhibitors (PARPi). We show that acquisition of PARPi-resistance is accompanied by …

The “cyclopropyl fragment” is a versatile player that frequently appears in preclinical/clinical drug molecules

TT Talele - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, there has been an increasing use of the cyclopropyl ring in drug development to
transition drug candidates from the preclinical to clinical stage. Important features of the …

Indoles as therapeutics of interest in medicinal chemistry: Bird's eye view

N Chadha, O Silakari - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Indoles constitute extensively explored heterocyclic ring systems with wide range of
applications in pathophysiological conditions that is, cancer, microbial and viral infections …

DNA damage checkpoint kinases in cancer

HL Smith, H Southgate, DA Tweddle… - Expert reviews in …, 2020 - cambridge.org
DNA damage response (DDR) pathway prevents high level endogenous and environmental
DNA damage being replicated and passed on to the next generation of cells via an …