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ArticleCancer research2018

Discovery and Characterization of Dual Inhibitors of MDM2 and NFAT1 for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy.

Wei Wang, Jiang-Jiang Qin, Sukesh Voruganti, Bhavitavya Nijampatnam, Sadanandan E Velu, Ke-He Ruan, Ming Hu, Jianwei Zhou, Ruiwen Zhang

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Article in Cancer research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Advances and Prospects in the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer.International journal of nanomedicine · 2023
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  20. Structural studies of antitumor compounds that target the RING domain of MDM2.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wei Wang *Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. rzhang27@central.uh.edu wwang4@central.uh.edu.
Jiang-Jiang Qin *Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
Sukesh VorugantiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas.
Bhavitavya NijampatnamDepartment of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Sadanandan E VeluDepartment of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Ke-He RuanDepartment of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
Ming HuDepartment of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
Jianwei ZhouDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology and Toxicology, Cancer Center, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China.
Ruiwen ZhangDepartment of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. rzhang27@central.uh.edu wwang4@central.uh.edu.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

UAB CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE (CCTS) UL1: BPCAUL1RR025777 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI GUAY-WOODFORD, LISA MARIE · 2008 to 2011
$22.3M
Novel NFAT1-MDM2 inhibitor for Breast Cancer TherapyR01CA214019 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI ZHANG, RUIWEN · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
Novel Small Molecule MDM2 Inhibitors for Pancreatic Cancer TherapyR01CA186662 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI ZHANG, RUIWEN · 2014 to 2018
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA186662NCI NIH HHS R01 CA214019NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025777
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Overexpression and activation of the murine double minute 2 (MDM2) or nuclear factor of activated T cells 1 (NFAT1) oncoproteins frequently occur in pancreatic cancer. Most MDM2 inhibitors under development target MDM2-p53 binding and have little or no effect on cancers without functional p53, including pancreatic cancer. Some available compounds indirectly inhibit NFAT1 activity by interfering with calcineurin activity, but there are currently no specific inhibitors against NFAT1. Here we performed a high-throughput virtual and cell-based screening to yield a lead compound (MA242) that can directly bind both MDM2 and NFAT1 with high affinity, induce their protein degradation, and inhibit NFAT1-mediated transcription of

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosisCalcineurinCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDeoxycytidineDrug DiscoveryDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFemaleGemcitabineHeterocyclic Compounds, 3-RingMiceMice, NudeNeoplasm TransplantationAntineoplastic AgentsCalcineurinDeoxycytidineGemcitabineHeterocyclic Compounds, 3-RingMA242MDM2 protein, humanNFATC2 protein, humanNFATC Transcription FactorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2RNA, Small InterferingTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53

Identifiers

PMID30217928
PMCPMC6435280
OpenAlexW2891422277

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