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ArticlePharmacological research2021

Novel STAT3 small-molecule inhibitors identified by structure-based virtual ligand screening incorporating SH2 domain flexibility.

Ren Kong, Uddalak Bharadwaj, T Kris Eckols, Mikhail Kolosov, Haoyi Wu, Francisco J Santa Cruz-Pavlovich, Alison Shaw, Oluwatomilona I Ifelayo, Hong Zhao, Moses M Kasembeli and 2 more

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Article in Pharmacological research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ren KongDepartment of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA; Institute of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, Jiangsu, 213001, PR China.
Uddalak BharadwajDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
T Kris EckolsDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Mikhail KolosovDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Haoyi WuDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Francisco J Santa Cruz-PavlovichDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Alison ShawDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Oluwatomilona I IfelayoDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Hong ZhaoDepartment of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Moses M KasembeliDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Stephen T C WongDepartment of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering, Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. Electronic address: stwong@houstonmethodist.org.
David J TweardyDepartment of Infectious Disease, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: djtweardy@mdanderson.org.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USMethodist Hospital · USCornell University · US

Funding

The Core of the Computational BiologyU54CA149196 · NCI · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI WONG, STEPHEN TC · 2010 to 2015
$10.6M
Systematic identification of astrocyte-tumor crosstalk regulating brain metastatic tumorsR01CA238727 · NCI · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI WONG, STEPHEN TC, ZHAO, HONG · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA238727NCI NIH HHS U54 CA149196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efforts to develop STAT3 inhibitors have focused on its SH2 domain starting with short phosphotyrosylated peptides based on STAT3 binding motifs, e.g. pY

Indexed as

src Homology DomainsAlkylationBinding SitesBlotting, WesternCell Line, TumorDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryHumansLigandsMolecular Docking SimulationProtein Structure, TertiarySTAT3 Transcription FactorStructure-Activity RelationshipSurface Plasmon ResonanceLigandsSTAT3 Transcription Factor

Identifiers

PMID33932608
PMCPMC8217378
OpenAlexW3159475770

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