Vincristine in combination therapy of cancer: emerging trends in clinics

J Škubník, VS Pavlíčková, T Ruml, S Rimpelová - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Vincristine is a vinca alkaloid naturally occurring in Catharanthus roseus. It
belongs to antimitotic compounds, which arrest the cell cycle via disrupting microtubule …

Marine sponge natural products with anticancer potential: An updated review

C Calcabrini, E Catanzaro, A Bishayee, E Turrini… - Marine drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
Despite the huge investment into research and the significant effort and advances made in
the search for new anticancer drugs in recent decades, cancer cure and treatment continue …

Biosynthesis, extraction, detection and pharmacological attributes of vinblastine and vincristine, two important chemotherapeutic alkaloids of Catharanthus roseus (L.) …

A Paul, K Acharya, N Chakraborty - South African Journal of Botany, 2023 - Elsevier
The demand for natural product is growing their interest in our daily life. It makes
Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don a crucial member of family Apocynaceae due to having its …

[HTML][HTML] Microtubules in plants

T Hashimoto - The Arabidopsis Book/American Society of Plant …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microtubules (MTs) are highly conserved polar polymers that are key elements of the
eukaryotic cytoskeleton and are essential for various cell functions. αβ-tubulin, a …

Marine mollusk‐derived agents with antiproliferative activity as promising anticancer agents to overcome chemotherapy resistance

ML Ciavatta, F Lefranc, M Carbone… - Medicinal Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical investigation of marine mollusks has led to the isolation of a wide variety of
bioactive metabolites, which evolved in marine organisms as favorable adaptations to …

Regulation of mitochondrial respiration by VDAC is enhanced by membrane-bound inhibitors with disordered polyanionic C-terminal domains

TK Rostovtseva, SM Bezrukov… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) is the primary regulating pathway of water-
soluble metabolites and ions across the mitochondrial outer membrane. When reconstituted …

A fluorescence anisotropy assay to discover and characterize ligands targeting the maytansine site of tubulin

G Menchon, AE Prota, D Lucena-Agell… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microtubule-targeting agents (MTAs) like taxol and vinblastine are among the most
successful chemotherapeutic drugs against cancer. Here, we describe a fluorescence …

Exploring the potential of two Pseudomonas species to produce vincristine from vinblastine via biotransformation

G Srivastava, R Mittal, N Srivastava, D Ganjewala - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A biotransformation pair consisting of vinblastine: vincristine present in the Catharanthus
roseus plant is of immense pharmacological significance. In this study, we successfully …

Algae metabolites: From in vitro growth inhibitory effects to promising anticancer activity

F Lefranc, A Koutsaviti, E Ioannou, A Kornienko… - Natural product …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1957 to 2017 Algae constitute a heterogeneous group of eukaryotic
photosynthetic organisms, mainly found in the marine environment. Algae produce …

Structural features and lipid binding domain of tubulin on biomimetic mitochondrial membranes

DP Hoogerheide, SY Noskov… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Dimeric tubulin, an abundant water-soluble cytosolic protein known primarily for its role in
the cytoskeleton, is routinely found to be associated with mitochondrial outer membranes …