Recent progress on tubulin inhibitors with dual targeting capabilities for cancer therapy

W Shuai, G Wang, Y Zhang, F Bu, S Zhang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microtubules play a crucial role in multiple cellular functions including mitosis, cell signaling,
and organelle trafficking, which makes the microtubule an important target for cancer …

A comprehensive review of topoisomerase inhibitors as anticancer agents in the past decade

X Liang, Q Wu, S Luan, Z Yin, C He, L Yin, Y Zou… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The topoisomerase enzymes play an important role in DNA metabolism, and searching for
enzyme inhibitors is an important target in the search for new anticancer drugs. Discovery of …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in topoisomerase-targeted cancer chemotherapy

KE Hevener, TA Verstak, KE Lutat, DL Riggsbee… - … pharmaceutica sinica B, 2018 - Elsevier
The DNA topoisomerase enzymes are essential to cell function and are found ubiquitously
in all domains of life. The various topoisomerase enzymes perform a wide range of functions …

Topoisomerase I inhibitors: Challenges, progress and the road ahead

A Talukdar, B Kundu, D Sarkar, S Goon… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Topoisomerase IB (Top1), a subcategory of DNA topoisomerase enzymes is
expressed much higher in several tumor cells. Therefore, modulating the activity of Top1 in …

Scaffold diversity synthesis and its application in probe and drug discovery

M Garcia‐Castro, S Zimmermann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Scaffold diversity is a crucial feature of compound collections that has a huge impact on their
success in biological screenings. The synthesis of highly complex and diverse scaffolds …

Visible-light-mediated efficient metal-free catalyst for α-oxygenation of tertiary amines to amides

Y Zhang, D Riemer, W Schilling, J Kollmann… - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
A metal-free system has been discovered for the efficient α-oxygenation of tertiary amines to
the corresponding amides using oxygen as an oxidant. This visible-light-mediated …

Evodiamine: a review of its pharmacology, toxicity, pharmacokinetics and preparation researches

Q Sun, L Xie, J Song, X Li - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Evodia rutaecarpa, a well-known herb medicine in China,
is extensively applied in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The plant has the effects of …

A review of synthetic bioactive tetrahydro-β-carbolines: A medicinal chemistry perspective

J Wang, F Gong, T Liang, Z Xie, Y Yang, C Cao… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 1, 2, 3, 4-Tetrahydro-β-carboline (THβC) scaffold is widespread in many natural
products (NPs) and synthetic compounds which show a variety of pharmacological activities …

Discovery of novel topoisomerase II inhibitors by medicinal chemistry approaches

W Hu, XS Huang, JF Wu, L Yang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
DNA topoisomerase II (topo II) is an important enzyme involved in DNA replication,
recombination, and repair. Despite the popular applications of topo II inhibitors in cancer …

Combination of DNA damage, autophagy, and ERK inhibition: novel evodiamine-inspired multi-action Pt (IV) prodrugs with high-efficiency and low-toxicity antitumor …

XM Liu, Z Li, XR Xie, JQ Wang, X Qiao… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exploring multi-targeting chemotherapeutants with advantages over single-targeting agents
and drug combinations is of great significance in drug discovery. Herein, we employed …