Targeting cancer's Achilles' heel: role of BCL-2 inhibitors in cellular senescence and apoptosis

A Anantram, M Degani - Future medicinal chemistry, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Members of the antiapoptotic BCL-2 proteins are involved in tumor growth, progression and
survival, and are also responsible for chemoresistance to conventional anticancer agents …

Inhibitory potentials of phytocompounds from Ocimum gratissimum against anti-apoptotic BCL-2 proteins associated with cancer: an integrated computational study

G A. Gyebi, O M. Ogunyemi, I M. Ibrahim… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family is intrinsically involved in regulating apoptosis. Over
expression of these proteins is associated with cancer. Thus, inhibitors of these proteins will …

Phytosterols and triterpenes from Morinda lucida Benth (Rubiaceae) as potential inhibitors of anti-apoptotic BCL-XL, BCL-2, and MCL-1: an in-silico study

KE Adewole, AA Ishola - Journal of Receptors and Signal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Deregulation of the normal cellular apoptotic function is a fundamental element in the
etiology of most cancers and the anti-apoptotic B cell lymphoma 2 (BCL‑2) protein family is …

Affinity enhancement of nanobody binding to EGFR: in silico site-directed mutagenesis and molecular dynamics simulation approaches

A Farasat, F Rahbarizadeh… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a transmembrane glycoprotein, is overexpressed
in many cancers such as head-neck, breast, prostate, and skin cancers for this reason it is a …

Molecular dynamic simulations on an inhibitor of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins for insights into its interaction mechanism for anti-cancer activity

A Anantram, H Kundaikar, M Degani… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Inhibition of normal cellular apoptosis or programed cell death is the hallmark of all cancers.
Apoptotic dysregulation can result in numerous pathological conditions, such as cancers …

A systematic drug repurposing approach to identify promising inhibitors from FDA-approved drugs against Nsp4 protein of SARS-CoV-2

J Chakraborty, A Maity, H Sarkar - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 and responsible for the ongoing global pandemic in
the world. After more than a year, we are still in lurch to combat and control the situation …

Flexibility enables to discriminate between ligands: Lessons from structural ensembles of Bcl-xl and Mcl-1

A Maity, S Majumdar, SG Dastidar - Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The proteins of Bcl-2 family, which are promising anti-cancer-drug targets, have substantial
similarity in primary sequence and share homologous domains as well as similar structural …

The long unstructured region of Bcl‐xl modulates its structural dynamics

P Priya, A Maity… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Bcl‐xl protein has a long unstructured loop attached to its structured region which joins two
helices. The necessity to have this unstructured segment in Bcl‐xl is not yet well understood …

Impact of lymphoma‐linked Asn11Tyr point mutation on the interaction between Bcl‐2 and a BH3 mimetic: Insights from molecular dynamics simulation

K Singh, JM Briggs - Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent mutations in the Bcl‐2 anti‐apoptotic protein are often implicated in diffuse large B‐
cell lymphoma (DLBCL), a disease profoundly resistant to drugs. Bcl‐2‐competitive …

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A Anantram, H Kundaikar, M Degani, A Prabhu - potassiumchannelsignals.com
Inhibition of normal cellular apoptosis or programed cell death is the hallmark of all cancers.
Apoptotic dysregulation can result in numerous pathological conditions, such as cancers …