Therapeutic inhibition of Myc in cancer. Structural bases and computer-aided drug discovery approaches

LA Carabet, PS Rennie, A Cherkasov - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Myc (avian myelocytomatosis viral oncogene homolog) represents one of the most sought
after drug targets in cancer. Myc transcription factor is an essential regulator of cell growth …

Ligand design to acquire specificity to intended G‐quadruplex structures

S Asamitsu, T Bando… - Chemistry–A European …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
AG‐quadruplex is a nucleic acid secondary structure that is adopted by guanine‐rich
sequences, and is considered to be relevant in various pharmacological and biological …

Digitizing chemistry using the chemical processing unit: from synthesis to discovery

L Wilbraham, SHM Mehr, L Cronin - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The digitization of chemistry is not simply about using machine learning or
artificial intelligence systems to process chemical data, or about the development of ever …

[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
The nuclear transcription factor c-Myc is a member of the Myc gene family with multiple
functions and located on band q24. 1 of chromosome 8. The c-Myc gene is activated by …

Drug repositioning by structure-based virtual screening

DL Ma, DSH Chan, CH Leung - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Approved drugs have favourable or validated pharmacokinetic properties and toxicological
profiles, and the repositioning of existing drugs for new indications can potentially avoid …

Conjugating a groove-binding motif to an Ir (III) complex for the enhancement of G-quadruplex probe behavior

M Wang, Z Mao, TS Kang, CY Wong, JL Mergny… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, the reported G-quadruplex groove binder benzo [d, e] isoquinoline was linked
to a cyclometallated Ir (III) complex to generate a highly selective DNA probe 1 that retains …

Cell penetrating thiazole peptides inhibit c-MYC expression via site-specific targeting of c-MYC G-quadruplex

D Dutta, M Debnath, D Müller, R Paul… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The structural differences among different G-quadruplexes provide an opportunity for site-
specific targeting of a particular G-quadruplex structure. However, majority of G-quadruplex …

Structural insight for the recognition of G-quadruplex structure at human c-myc promoter sequence by flavonoid Quercetin

A Tawani, SK Mishra, A Kumar - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Small molecule ligands that could stabilize G-quadruplex structure formed at the promoter
region of human c-myc oncogene will regulate its expression in cancer cells. Flavonoids, a …

Selective, disruptive luminescent Ru (II) polypyridyl probes of G-quadruplex

L Holden, KS Gkika, CS Burke, C Long… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sensors capable of transducing G-quadruplex DNA binding are important both in solution
and for imaging and interrogation in cellulo. Ru (II)-based light switches incorporating …

G-quadruplex virtual drug screening: A review

RC Monsen, JO Trent - Biochimie, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades biologists and bioinformaticians have unearthed substantial
evidence supporting a role for G-quadruplexes as important mediators of biological …