Anticancer activities of histone deacetylase inhibitors

JE Bolden, MJ Peart, RW Johnstone - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are enzymes involved in the remodelling of chromatin, and
have a key role in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression. In addition, the activity of …

HER2 therapy: molecular mechanisms of trastuzumab resistance

R Nahta, FJ Esteva - Breast Cancer Research, 2006 - Springer
Trastuzumab is a monoclonal antibody targeted against the HER2 tyrosine kinase receptor.
The majority of patients with metastatic breast cancer who initially respond to trastuzumab …

Aggresome induction by proteasome inhibitor bortezomib and α-tubulin hyperacetylation by tubulin deacetylase (TDAC) inhibitor LBH589 are synergistic in myeloma …

L Catley, E Weisberg, T Kiziltepe, YT Tai, T Hideshima… - Blood, 2006 - ashpublications.org
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have shown cytotoxicity as single agents in
preclinical studies for multiple myeloma (MM) cells. LBH589 is a novel hydroxamic acid …

Targeting histone deacetylase in cancer therapy

HY Lin, CS Chen, SP Lin, JR Weng… - Medicinal research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) is recognized as one of the promising targets for cancer
treatment as many HDAC inhibitors have entered clinical trials for both solid and liquid …

Inhibitors of the HSP90 molecular chaperone: current status

S Sharp, P Workman - Advances in cancer research, 2006 - Elsevier
The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) has emerged as an exciting
molecular target for cancer therapy. It operates as part of a multichaperone complex and is …

Histone deacetylase inhibitors: multifunctional anticancer agents

T Liu, S Kuljaca, A Tee, GM Marshall - Cancer treatment reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Acetylation and deacetylation of chromatin histone protein by histone deacetylase (HDAC)
alters chromatin structure and dynamically affects transcriptional regulation. Many lines of …

Activity of PXD101, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, in preclinical ovarian cancer studies

X Qian, WJ LaRochelle, G Ara, F Wu… - Molecular cancer …, 2006 - AACR
Histone deacetylase inhibitors represent a promising new class of anticancer agents. In the
current investigation, we examined the activity of PXD101, a potent histone deacetylase …

Combined effects of novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor AMN107 and histone deacetylase inhibitor LBH589 against Bcr-Abl–expressing human leukemia cells

W Fiskus, M Pranpat, P Bali, M Balasis… - Blood, 2006 - ashpublications.org
AMN107 (Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland) has potent in vitro and in vivo
activity against the unmutated and most common mutant forms of Bcr-Abl. Treatment with the …

Epigenetic regulation of immune escape genes in cancer

TB Tomasi, WJ Magner, ANH Khan - Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 2006 - Springer
According to the concept of immune surveillance, the appearance of a tumor indicates that it
has earlier evaded host defenses and subsequently must have escaped immunity to evolve …

Raf kinases: oncogenesis and drug discovery

R Schreck, UR Rapp - International journal of cancer, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Raf kinase signaling has been thoroughly investigated over the last 20 years. A‐Raf, B‐Raf
and C‐Raf, the 3 mammalian members of the Raf family, are involved in a variety of cellular …