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ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2012

Anti-cancer drug discovery and development: Bcl-2 family small molecule inhibitors.

Qiang Liu, Hong-Gang Wang

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Qiang LiuDepartment of Pharmacology and Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute; The Pennsylvania University College of Medicine; Hershey, PA USA.
Hong-Gang Wang
Hershey (United States) · USPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS OF BADR01CA082197 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI WANG, HONG-GANG · 1999 to 2015
$3.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA082197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deregulated apoptosis is a hallmark of cancer, and the B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family of proteins is pivotal to mediating the intrinsic pathway of this process. Recent advances have yielded both pan-Bcl-2 small molecule inhibitors (SMIs) that inhibit both the Bcl-2 and the Mcl-1 arm of the Bcl-2 family anti-apoptotic proteins, as well as selective SMIs to differentially target the two arms. Of these SMIs, ABT-263 (navitoclax), AT-101 [(-)-gossypol], and obatoclax (GX15-070) are currently in clinical trials for multiple cancers. While pan-Bcl-2 inhibitors such as AT-101 and obatoclax can be more toxic for inhibiting all members of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family of proteins, resistance can quickly develop for ABT-263, a selective Bcl-2 inhibitor. In this article, we discuss the current status of Bcl-2 family SMIs in preclinical and clinical development. As Mcl-1 upregulation is a major mechanism of ABT-263 resistance, Mcl-1-specific inhibitors are expected to be efficacious both in combination/sequential treatments and as a single agent against cancers resistant to ABT-263.

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apoptosisBcl-2cancerDrug discoveryMcl-1

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PMID23336025
PMCPMC3541322
OpenAlexW1999606433

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