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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2018

Lycorine Displays Potent Antitumor Efficacy in Colon Carcinoma by Targeting STAT3.

Song Wu, Yuling Qiu, Yingying Shao, Shuangshuang Yin, Rui Wang, Xu Pang, Junhong Ma, Chunze Zhang, Bo Wu, Sangho Koo and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Song WuTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Yuling QiuSchool of Pharmacy, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Yingying ShaoTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Shuangshuang YinTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Rui WangTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xu PangTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Junhong MaDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Chunze ZhangDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, Tianjin Union Medical Center, Tianjin, China.
Bo WuSchool of Fundamental Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
Sangho KooDepartment of Chemistry, Myongji University, Seoul, South Korea.
Lifeng HanTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Yi ZhangTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xiumei GaoTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Tao WangTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Haiyang YuTianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNChina Medical University · CNMyongji University · KRTianjin Medical University · CNTianjin Nankai Hospital · CNTianjin People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is an attractive therapeutic target for cancer treatment. In this study, we identify lycorine is an effective inhibitor of STAT3, leading to repression of multiple oncogenic processes in colon carcinoma. Lycorine selectively inactivates phospho-STAT3 (Tyr-705), and subsequent molecular docking uncovers that lycorine directly binds to the SH2 domain of STAT3. Consequently, we find that lycorine exhibits anti-proliferative activity and induces cell apoptosis on human colorectal cancer (CRC)

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apoptosiscolorectal cancerslycorineSTAT3target

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PMCPMC6092588
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