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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2012

Identification of Simple Compounds with Microtubule-Binding Activity That Inhibit Cancer Cell Growth with High Potency.

Wan Seok Yang, Kenichi Shimada, Darnelle Delva, Milesh Patel, Egberamwen Ode, Rachid Skouta, Brent R Stockwell

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Article in ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wan Seok YangDepartment of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University , Northwest Corner Building, 12th Floor, 550 West 120th Street, MC 4846, New York, New York 10027, United States.
Kenichi Shimada
Darnelle Delva
Milesh Patel
Egberamwen Ode
Rachid Skouta
Brent R Stockwell
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USColumbia University · US

Funding

Chemical Genetic Profiling of Engineered Tumor CellsR01CA097061 · NCI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI STOCKWELL, BRENT R. · 2002 to 2016
$4.8M
Comparing HTS with Fragment-Based Design for B-Raf and the Ras-Raf InteractionR01CA161061 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI STOCKWELL, BRENT R. · 2011 to 2014
$1.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA097061NCI NIH HHS R01 CA161061
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We analyzed more than 1 million small molecules with the goal of finding simple synthetic compounds that potently inhibit cancer cell growth. We identified three such compounds with unknown mechanisms of action. Subsequent studies revealed that all three of these small molecules target microtubules. These three scaffolds can serve as templates for developing new microtubule-targeted agents, overcoming the limits of existing microtubule-inhibiting drugs derived from complex natural products.

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PMID22247791
PMCPMC3256933
OpenAlexW2019477169

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