100 years of suramin

N Wiedemar, DA Hauser, P Mäser - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Here, we provide an overview of the many different … , more specific, and less toxic molecules
can be identified for the … least) two pathways for receptor-mediated endocytosis of suramin in …

Repurposing of drugs: An attractive pharmacological strategy for cancer therapeutics

A Kirtonia, K Gala, SG Fernandes, G Pandya… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
… In the last two decades, appreciable progress has been … , chemotherapeutic agents have
significant toxicity and badly … In a cohort study with 15,052 colorectal cancer patients, that …

Anti-breast cancer potential of a new xanthine derivative: in silico, antiproliferative, selectivity, VEGFR-2 inhibition, apoptosis induction and migration inhibition studies

IH Eissa, RG Yousef, H Elkady, EB Elkaeed… - … -Research and Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
… are needed to explore its potential as a therapeutic agent. … In colorectal cancer, theobromine
was able to induce … , and its potential toxicity, ADMET prediction offers valuable insights into …

[HTML][HTML] Urea-based anticancer agents. Exploring 100-years of research with an eye to the future

R Listro, G Rossino, F Piaggi, FF Sonekan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… truncated suramin derivatives were ineffective against the tumor cell … )thiazol-2-yl urea
derivatives as therapeutic agents) this year, … activity against human colon cancer cells, underwent …

Old polyanionic drug suramin suppresses detrimental cytotoxicity of the host defense peptide LL-37

M Quemé-Peña, M Ricci, T Juhász… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… to provide a viable solution. Here, we demonstrate that the reduction of LL-37 toxicity might
be … Moreover, a comparison with other therapeutic agents having common features unveiled …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of Novel Suramin Analogs With Anti-Proliferative Activity via FGF1 and FGFRD2 Blockade

N Parveen, YL Lin, RH Chou, CM Sun, C Yu - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… show potential as novel therapeutic agents for their anti-… of suramin was understood, less
toxic and more specific new … , suramin has been tested for NSCLC’s, prostate cancer, and …

Drug repositioning: Progress and challenges in drug discovery for various diseases

Y Hua, X Dai, Y Xu, G Xing, H Liu, T Lu, Y Chen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
… that there are two types of lesions in the brain of AD patients, … Colorectal cancer is the second
leading cause of cancer … time and cost but also has very high safety and toxicity risk [135]…

Repurposing old drugs as new inhibitors of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway for cancer treatment

H Yang, X Chen, K Li, H Cheaito, Q Yang, G Wu… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
… resistance in MM patients, neuro-toxicities, and little efficacy in … therapeutic agent for multiple
myeloma (MM) and mantle cell … , BTZ has shown significant anticancer activity in plasma cell

[HTML][HTML] Pentosan Polysulfate Affords Pleotropic Protection to Multiple Cells and Tissues

MM Smith, J Melrose - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
… to unmodified suramin and these are also less toxic [110]. … in vitro, and it has been proposed
as a novel therapeutic agent to … PPS or isotonic saline was injected twice weekly for 6 weeks …

Dual function of protein phosphatase 5 (PPP5C): An emerging therapeutic target for drug discovery

H Zhang, Q Zhang, J Tu, Q You, L Wang - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - Elsevier
… , which leads to colorectal cancer cell development. (E) In AD … Recently, new applications
of suramin were gradually being … to PPP5C while reducing toxicity remains a challenge. …