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ReviewBioorganic & medicinal chemistry2014

Drug discovery targeting cell division proteins, microtubules and FtsZ.

Iwao Ojima, Kunal Kumar, Divya Awasthi, Jacob G Vineberg

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Review in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Separating the effects of nucleotide and EB binding on microtubule structure.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Iwao OjimaDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA; Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA. Electronic address: iwao.ojima@stonybrook.edu.
Kunal KumarInstitute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA.
Divya AwasthiDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA.
Jacob G VinebergDepartment of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA.
Stony Brook University · US

Funding

Tumor -Targeting Chemotherapeutic AgentsR01CA103314 · NCI · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI OJIMA, IWAO · 2003 to 2013
$3.1M
Novel Antimicrobials Targeting Cell DivisionR01AI078251 · NIAID · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI OJIMA, IWAO · 2009 to 2013
$1.9M
NON-PROTEIN AMINO ACIDS AND TAXOID ANTITUMOR AGENTSR01GM042798 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI OJIMA, IWAO · 1990 to 2002
$622k
NCI NIH HHS CA103314NCI NIH HHS R01 CA103314NIAID NIH HHS AI078251NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI078251NIGMS NIH HHS GM42798NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM042798
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic cell division or cytokinesis has been a major target for anticancer drug discovery. After the huge success of paclitaxel and docetaxel, microtubule-stabilizing agents (MSAs) appear to have gained a premier status in the discovery of next-generation anticancer agents. However, the drug resistance caused by MDR, point mutations, and overexpression of tubulin subtypes, etc., is a serious issue associated with these agents. Accordingly, the discovery and development of new-generation MSAs that can obviate various drug resistances has a significant meaning. In sharp contrast, prokaryotic cell division has been largely unexploited for the discovery and development of antibacterial drugs. However, recent studies on the mechanism of bacterial cytokinesis revealed that the most abundant and highly conserved cell division protein, FtsZ, would be an excellent new target for the drug discovery of next-generation antibacterial agents that can circumvent drug-resistances to the commonly used drugs for tuberculosis, MRSA and other infections. This review describes an account of our research on these two fronts in drug discovery, targeting eukaryotic as well as prokaryotic cell division.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntineoplastic AgentsBacterial ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCell DivisionCytoskeletal ProteinsHumansMicrotubulesTubulin ModulatorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntineoplastic AgentsBacterial ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCytoskeletal ProteinsFtsZ protein, BacteriaTubulin ModulatorsAntibacterial agentAnticancer agentBenzimidazoleCytokinesisFtsZMicrotubuleProtofilamentTaxaneTaxoidTuberculosisTubulin

Identifiers

PMID24680057
PMCPMC4156572
OpenAlexW2050736986

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