Therapeutic strategies to overcome taxane resistance in cancer

T Das, U Anand, SK Pandey, CR Ashby Jr… - Drug Resistance …, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the primary causes of attenuated or loss of efficacy of cancer chemotherapy is the
emergence of multidrug resistance (MDR). Numerous studies have been published …

Current advances of tubulin inhibitors as dual acting small molecules for cancer therapy

KE Arnst, S Banerjee, H Chen, S Deng… - Medicinal research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microtubule (MT)‐targeting agents are highly successful drugs as chemotherapeutic agents,
and this is attributed to their ability to target MT dynamics and interfere with critical cellular …

Isolation, characterization, anti-MRSA evaluation, and in-silico multi-target anti-microbial validations of actinomycin X2 and actinomycin D produced by novel …

KA Qureshi, AD Bholay, PK Rai, HA Mohammed… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Streptomyces smyrnaeus UKAQ_23, isolated from the mangrove-sediment, collected from
Jubail, Saudi Arabia, exhibited substantial antimicrobial activity against methicillin-resistant …

NMR as a “gold standard” method in drug design and discovery

AH Emwas, K Szczepski, BG Poulson, K Chandra… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Studying disease models at the molecular level is vital for drug development in order to
improve treatment and prevent a wide range of human pathologies. Microbial infections are …

Emerging status of multidrug-resistant bacteria and fungi in the arabian peninsula

JF Borgio, AS Rasdan, B Sonbol, G Alhamid… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The incidence and developing status of multidrug-resistant bacteria and
fungi, as well as their related mortality, is reviewed by a systematic published literature …

[HTML][HTML] Resistance to anti-tubulin agents: From vinca alkaloids to epothilones

W Krause - Cancer Drug Resistance, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This review describes the mechanism of action-inhibition of microtubules-and the most
important mechanisms of resistance for vinca alkaloids, taxanes and epothilones …

Synthesis and evaluation of novel α-substituted chalcones with potent anti-cancer activities and ability to overcome multidrug resistance

S Riaz, M Iqbal, R Ullah, R Zahra, GA Chotana… - Bioorganic …, 2019 - Elsevier
A series of forty α-substituted chalcones were synthesized and screened for their
antiproliferative activities against HCT116 (colorectal) and HCC1954 (breast) cancer cell …

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of SSE1806, a microtubule destabilizer that overcomes multidrug resistance

F Firdous, S Riaz, M Furqan, S Fozail… - ACS Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microtubules are dynamic structures that form spindle fibers during cell division;
pharmacological inhibition of microtubule dynamics arrests cells in mitosis, leading to …

Light-induced stabilization of microtubules by photo-crosslinking of a Tau-derived peptide

S Watari, H Inaba, T Tamura, AMR Kabir… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
For light-induced stabilization of microtubules (MTs) to manipulate cells, a photo-reactive
diazirine group was conjugated to a Tau-derived peptide, a motif binding on the inside of …

Natural and semisynthetic chalcones as dual FLT3 and microtubule polymerization inhibitors

HS Malik, A Bilal, R Ullah, M Iqbal, S Khan… - Journal of Natural …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Activating mutations in FLT3 receptor tyrosine kinase are found in a third of acute myeloid
leukemia (AML) patients and are associated with disease relapse and a poor prognosis. The …