Beyond cisplatin: New frontiers in metallodrugs for hard-to-treat triple negative breast cancer

N Muhammad, M Hanif, P Yang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and hard-to-treat form of breast
cancer. TNBC has a higher propensity for earlier relapse and an increased risk of metastasis …

Targeting Myc-driven stress addiction in colorectal cancer

H Saeed, BJ Leibowitz, L Zhang, J Yu - Drug Resistance Updates, 2023 - Elsevier
MYC is a proto-oncogene that encodes a powerful regulator of transcription and cellular
programs essential for normal development, as well as the growth and survival of various …

Addressing transcriptional dysregulation in cancer through CDK9 inhibition

MA Toure, AN Koehler - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Undermining transcriptional addiction, the dependence of cancers on selected
transcriptional programs, is critically important for addressing cancers with high unmet …

Identification of a Novel Selective CDK9 Inhibitor for the Treatment of CRC: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Activity Evaluation

Y Zhong, J Xu, R Zhou, L Tang, S Ding… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) is a member of the transcription CDK subfamily. In this
work, we preliminarily demonstrated the feasibility of CDK9 as a potent target of treatment for …

Histone‐lysine N‐methyltransferase EHMT2 (G9a) inhibition mitigates tumorigenicity in Myc‐driven liver cancer

DKH Thng, L Hooi, CCM Toh, JJ Lim… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third deadliest and sixth most common cancer in the
world. Histone‐lysine N‐methyltransferase EHMT2 (also known as G9a) is a histone …

Discovery of a Myeloid Cell Leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) Inhibitor That Demonstrates Potent In Vivo Activities in Mouse Models of Hematological and Solid Tumors

JC Tarr, JM Salovich, M Aichinger… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) is a key regulator of the intrinsic apoptosis pathway.
Overexpression of Mcl-1 is correlated with high tumor grade, poor survival, and both intrinsic …

Targeting Transcriptional Regulation with a CDK9 Inhibitor Suppresses Growth of Endocrine- and Palbociclib-Resistant ER+ Breast Cancers

A Soosainathan, M Iravani, R El-Botty, J Alexander… - Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
The combination of endocrine therapy and CDK4/6 inhibitors such as palbociclib is an
effective and well-tolerated treatment for estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) breast cancer, yet …

[HTML][HTML] The pharmacodynamic and mechanistic foundation for the antineoplastic effects of GFH009, a potent and highly selective CDK9 inhibitor for the treatment of …

F Zhou, L Tang, S Le, M Ge, D Cicic, F Xie, J Ren… - Oncotarget, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To evade cell cycle controls, malignant cells rely upon rapid expression of select proteins to
mitigate proapoptotic signals resulting from damage caused by both cancer treatments and …

CDK9 inhibitor induces apoptosis, autophagy, and suppression of tumor growth in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma

N Kato, T Kozako, T Ohsugi, Y Uchida… - Biological and …, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a hematopoietic malignancy with a poor prognosis
that develops in approximately 5% of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) carriers …

TGF-β signaling pathway-related genes in predicting the prognosis of colon cancer and guiding immunotherapy

J Chen, C Ji, S Liu, J Wang, C Wang, J Pan… - Cancer Pathogenesis …, 2023 - mednexus.org
Background: Colon cancer is a malignant tumor with high malignancy and a low survival
rate whose heterogeneity limits systemic immunotherapy. Transforming growth factor-β (TGF …