[HTML][HTML] Small molecules targeting c-Myc oncogene: promising anti-cancer therapeutics

BJ Chen, YL Wu, Y Tanaka, W Zhang - International journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of c-Myc and therapeutic strategies against cancer using small molecules targeting the …
, in particular G-quadruplexes formed in c-Myc promoter and c-Myc/Max dimerization. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Mission possible: advances in MYC therapeutic targeting in cancer

BL Allen-Petersen, RC Sears - BioDrugs, 2019 - Springer
… In disease states, studies have shown that aberrant MYC expression results in promoter
invasion, with MYC binding to both high- and low-affinity consensus sequences, altering the …

[HTML][HTML] MYC as a target for cancer treatment

MJ Duffy, S O'Grady, M Tang, J Crown - Cancer treatment reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
… of all 3 forms of MYC to their target promoters, has been shown to … targeting MYC has yet
progressed to clinical testing, APTO-253, which partly acts by decreasing expression of MYC, is …

Structural recognition of the MYC promoter G-quadruplex by a quinoline derivative: insights into molecular targeting of parallel G-quadruplexes

J Dickerhoff, J Dai, D Yang - Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… important insights into targeting the major G4 of the MYC promoter by small molecules. The
newly … It has drug-like properties with low molecular weight, which makes it a promising lead-…

Direct evidence for a G-quadruplex in a promoter region and its targeting with a small molecule to repress c-MYC transcription

A Siddiqui-Jain, CL Grand… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
MYC expression is complex and involves multiple promoters and transcriptional start sites.
P1 and P2 seem to be the predominant promoters … -MYC promoter controls 85–90% of c-MYC

… of negative superhelicity in inducing the formation of G-quadruplex and i-motif structures in the c-Myc promoter: implications for drug targeting and control of gene …

D Sun, LH Hurley - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2009 - ACS Publications
… rate of the c-Myc promoter, we provide a more complete picture of how c-Myc transcription is
likely … as novel mechanisms for small molecule targeting of transcriptional control of c-Myc. …

Targeting MYC expression through G-quadruplexes

TA Brooks, LH Hurley - Genes & cancer, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
MYC expression that involves a four-stranded DNA structure, termed a G-quadruplex, amenable
to small molecule targeting. … the NHE III 1 in the MYC promoter are the closest thing that …

The role of supercoiling in transcriptional control of MYC and its importance in molecular therapeutics

TA Brooks, LH Hurley - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2009 - nature.com
… can precisely control the rate of MYC promoter firing. NHE III 1 … to suppress MYC expression
by small-molecule targeting of … of MYC in cancer and its attractiveness as a therapeutic target

The MYC oncogene as a cancer drug target

H Hermeking - Current cancer drug targets, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
… Furthermore, the c-myc promoter integrates diverse mitogenic signalling cascades, which
are constitutively activated in tumor cells, and translates them into expression of the c…

Attacking c-Myc: targeted and combined therapies for cancer

H Huang, H Weng, H Zhou, L Qu - Current pharmaceutical …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
… In prostate and breast cancer cell lines, TFOs targeting the P2 promoter of c-myc can lead
to growth inhibition and apoptosis when covalently linked to the DNA-intercalating agent …