Bromodomain inhibitors and therapeutic applications

BK Gajjela, MM Zhou - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The bromodomain acts to recognize acetylated lysine in histones and transcription proteins
and plays a fundamental role in chromatin-based cellular processes including gene …

Recent progress and structural analyses of domain‐selective BET inhibitors

A Divakaran, DA Harki… - Medicinal Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic mechanisms for controlling gene expression through heritable modifications to
DNA, RNA, and proteins, are essential processes in maintaining cellular homeostasis. As a …

Targeting bromodomain-selective inhibitors of BET proteins in drug discovery and development

J Chen, P Tang, Y Wang, J Wang, C Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Blocking the interactions between bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins and
acetylated lysines of histones by small molecules has important implications for the …

Discovery of a highly selective BET BD2 inhibitor from a DNA-encoded library technology screening hit

F Rianjongdee, SJ Atkinson, CW Chung… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Second-generation bromodomain and extra terminal (BET) inhibitors, which selectively
target one of the two bromodomains in the BET proteins, have begun to emerge in the …

Targeting BET bromodomains in cancer

P Trojer - Annual Review of Cancer Biology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cancer is frequently dependent on aberrant gene expression programs that might be
vulnerable to targeting with novel therapeutics. Bromodomain and extraterminal domain …

Discovery of a brain-permeable bromodomain and extra terminal domain (BET) inhibitor with selectivity for BD1 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

X Chen, T Wu, Z Du, W Kang, R Xu, F Meng… - European journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory autoimmune disease and lacks effective
therapeutic agents. Dysregulation of transcription mediated by bromodomain and extra …

Discovery of the First BRD4 Second Bromodomain (BD2)-Selective Inhibitors

J Li, Q Hu, R Zhu, R Dong, H Shen, J Hu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Pan-BD2 inhibitors have been shown to retain an antileukemia effect and display less dose-
limiting toxicities than pan-BET inhibitors. However, it is necessary to consider the potential …

Targeting cancer epigenetic pathways with small-molecule compounds: therapeutic efficacy and combination therapies

Y Wang, Q Xie, H Tan, M Liao, S Zhu, LL Zheng… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Epigenetics mainly refers to covalent modifications to DNA or histones without affecting
genomes, which ultimately lead to phenotypic changes in cells or organisms. Given the …

Structure-Based Discovery and Optimization of Furo[3,2-c]pyridin-4(5H)-one Derivatives as Potent and Second Bromodomain (BD2)-Selective Bromo and Extra …

J Li, C Zhang, H Xu, C Wang, R Dong… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pan-bromodomain and extra terminal (Pan-BET) inhibitors show profound efficacy but
exhibit pharmacology-driven toxicities in clinical trials. The development of domain-selective …

Improving druggability of novel diarylpyrimidine NNRTIs by a fragment-based replacement strategy: from biphenyl-DAPYs to heteroaromatic-biphenyl-DAPYs

L Ding, C Pannecouque, E De Clercq… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A series of novel heteroaromatic-difluoro-biphenyl-diarylpyrimidines were designed as non-
nucleoside anti-HIV inhibitors targeting reverse transcriptase by a fragment-based …