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 …

Mechanisms regulating endothelial permeability

S Sukriti, M Tauseef, P Yazbeck… - Pulmonary …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The endothelial monolayer partitioning underlying tissue from blood components in the
vessel wall maintains tissue fluid balance and host defense through dynamically opening …

Microtubule-targeting agents are clinically successful due to both mitotic and interphase impairment of microtubule function

JJ Field, A Kanakkanthara, JH Miller - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Microtubules undergo continual dynamic changes in mitotic cells as the mitotic spindle forms
and is broken down and in interphase cells where they play a central role in intracellular …

Recent advances in microtubule-stabilizing agents

YN Cao, LL Zheng, D Wang, XX Liang, F Gao… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highly dynamic mitotic spindle microtubules are superb therapeutic targets for a group of
chemically diverse and clinically successful anticancer drugs. Microtubule-targeted drugs …

The role of tubulin–tubulin lattice contacts in the mechanism of microtubule dynamic instability

SW Manka, CA Moores - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2018 - nature.com
Microtubules form from longitudinally and laterally assembling tubulin α–β dimers. The
assembly induces strain in tubulin, resulting in cycles of microtubule catastrophe and …

Current advances of tubulin inhibitors as dual acting small molecules for cancer therapy

KE Arnst, S Banerjee, H Chen, S Deng… - Medicinal research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microtubule (MT)‐targeting agents are highly successful drugs as chemotherapeutic agents,
and this is attributed to their ability to target MT dynamics and interfere with critical cellular …

Discovery of N-benzylarylamide derivatives as novel tubulin polymerization inhibitors capable of activating the Hippo pathway

J Song, SH Wang, CH Song, WX Zhang, JX Zhu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Novel N-benzylarylamide saderivatives were designed and synthesized, and their
antiproliferative activities were explored. Some of 51 target compounds exhibited potent …

Recent progress with microtubule stabilizers: new compounds, binding modes and cellular activities

CC Rohena, SL Mooberry - Natural product reports, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: late 2008 to August 2013 Nature has yielded numerous classes of chemically
distinct microtubule stabilizers. Several of these, including paclitaxel (Taxol) and docetaxel …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecules targeting protein–protein interactions for cancer therapy

D Wu, Y Li, L Zheng, H Xiao, L Ouyang, G Wang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to many biological processes that play
an important role in the occurrence and development of a variety of diseases. Targeting the …

[HTML][HTML] Microtubules in plants

T Hashimoto - The Arabidopsis Book/American Society of Plant …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microtubules (MTs) are highly conserved polar polymers that are key elements of the
eukaryotic cytoskeleton and are essential for various cell functions. αβ-tubulin, a …