Multiple binding modes of inhibitors to carbonic anhydrases: how to design specific drugs targeting 15 different isoforms?

V Alterio, A Di Fiore, K D'Ambrosio, CT Supuran… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) are ubiquitous metallo-enzymes, present
throughout most living organisms and encoded by five evolutionarily unrelated gene …

An overview on estrogen receptors signaling and its ligands in breast cancer

MZI Khan, M Uzair, A Nazli, JZ Chen - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Estrogen governs the regulations of various pathological and physiological actions
throughout the body in both males and females. Generally, 17β-estradiol an endogenous …

Antimitotic drugs in the treatment of cancer

RJ van Vuuren, MH Visagie, AE Theron… - Cancer chemotherapy …, 2015 - Springer
Cancer is a complex disease since it is adaptive in such a way that it can promote
proliferation and invasion by means of an overactive cell cycle and in turn cellular division …

Functional role of estrogen metabolism in target cells: review and perspectives.

BT Zhu, AH Conney - Carcinogenesis, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Cytochrome P450 enzymes that metabolize estrogens are expressed in the mammary
gland, uterus, brain and other target tissues for estrogen action, and this results in the …

Anticancer steroids: linking natural and semi-synthetic compounds

JAR Salvador, JFS Carvalho, MAC Neves… - Natural product …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2012 Steroids, a widespread class of natural organic compounds occurring
in animals, plants and fungi, have shown great therapeutic value for a broad array of …

Estrogen receptor agonists/antagonists in breast cancer therapy: A critical review

AJ Begam, S Jubie, MJ Nanjan - Bioorganic chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Estrogens display intriguing tissue selective action that is of great biomedical importance in
the development of optimal therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer …

Steroid sulfatase: molecular biology, regulation, and inhibition

MJ Reed, A Purohit, LWL Woo, SP Newman… - Endocrine …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Steroid sulfatase (STS) is responsible for the hydrolysis of aryl and alkyl steroid sulfates and
therefore has a pivotal role in regulating the formation of biologically active steroids. The …

Sulfatases: structure, mechanism, biological activity, inhibition, and synthetic utility

SR Hanson, MD Best, CH Wong - … Chemie International Edition, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfatases, which cleave sulfate esters in biological systems, play a key role in regulating
the sulfation states that determine the function of many physiological molecules. Sulfatase …

Direct access to benzo [b] furans through palladium-catalyzed oxidative annulation of phenols and unactivated internal alkynes.

MR Kuram, M Bhanuchandra… - … Chemie (International ed …, 2013 - europepmc.org
2, 3-Disubstituted benzo [b] furans are prepared in one step from commercially available
phenols and readily accessible unactivated internal alkynes (see scheme). This Pd …

Sulfamates and their therapeutic potential

JY Winum, A Scozzafava, JL Montero… - Medicinal research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Starting from the very simple molecule sulfamic acid, O‐substituted‐, N‐substituted‐, or di‐
/tri‐substituted sulfamates may be obtained, which show specific biological activities which …