Targeting pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase signaling in the development of effective cancer therapy

S Anwar, A Shamsi, T Mohammad, A Islam… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pyruvate is irreversibly decarboxylated to acetyl coenzyme A by mitochondrial pyruvate
dehydrogenase complex (PDC). Decarboxylation of pyruvate is considered a crucial step in …

Mitochondria as a novel target for cancer chemoprevention: emergence of mitochondrial-targeting agents

M Huang, CR Myers, Y Wang, M You - Cancer Prevention Research, 2021 - AACR
Cancer chemoprevention is the most effective approach to control cancer in the population.
Despite significant progress, chemoprevention has not been widely adopted because …

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

M Lepori, S Schmid, JP Barham - Beilstein Journal of Organic …, 2023 - beilstein-journals.org
Photoredox catalysis (PRC) is a cutting-edge frontier for single electron-transfer (SET)
reactions, enabling the generation of reactive intermediates for both oxidative and reductive …

Electrochemical Oxidative Oxydihalogenation of Alkynes for the Synthesis of α, α-Dihaloketones

X Meng, Y Zhang, J Luo, F Wang, X Cao… - Organic letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
An electrochemical oxydihalogenation of alkynes has been developed for the first time.
Using this sustainable protocol, a variety of α, α-dihaloketones can be prepared with readily …

The tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer therapy

L Pedrosa, F Esposito, TM Thomson, J Maurel - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
The current standard-of-care for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) includes
chemotherapy and anti-angiogenic or anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) …

Optimization of the natural product calothrixin A to discover novel dual topoisomerase I and II inhibitors with improved anticancer activity

X Yang, ZP Wang, S Xiang, D Wang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Calothrixin A (CAA) is a dual Topo I and II inhibitor but exhibits poor antiproliferative
activities and water solubility. Herein, a library of novel CAA analogues was synthesized …

Targeting the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex/pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDC/PDK) axis to discover potent PDK inhibitors through structure-based virtual …

L Gan, Y Yang, Z Liang, M Zhang, Y He… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Proliferating cancer cells are characterized by the Warburg effect, a metabolic alteration in
which ATP is generated from cytoplasmic glycolysis instead of oxidative phosphorylation …

Decoupled Photoelectrochemical Cerium-Catalyzed Oxydichlorination of Alkynes: Slow Releasing of Chloride Ions and Chlorine Radicals

D Shao, Y Wu, S Hu, W Gao, Y Du, X Jia… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthetic photoelectrochemistry shows significant advantages in handling of reactive
intermediates via a sustainable way and has developed to be the frontier of single electron …

A mitochondria-targeted phenylbutyric acid prodrug confers drastically improved anticancer activities

D Huang, Q Liu, M Zhang, Y Guo, Z Cui… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phenylbutyric acid (PBA) has been reported as a dual inhibitor of pyruvate dehydrogenase
kinases (PDKs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs), exhibiting anticancer effects. However …

TPP-based mitocans: A potent strategy for anticancer drug design

J Wang, J Li, Y Xiao, B Fu, Z Qin - RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer is one of the most important problems that endanger human health. The number of
cancer patients is increasing rapidly worldwide. Compared with normal cells, cancer cells …