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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2022

Therapeutics Targeting p53-MDM2 Interaction to Induce Cancer Cell Death.

Nayeong Koo, Arun K Sharma, Satya Narayan

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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89citing papers in PubMed
12.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 123 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nayeong KooDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1860-2574
Arun K SharmaDepartment of Pharmacology, Penn State Cancer Institute, College of Medicine, Penn State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Satya NarayanDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
University of Florida · USPennsylvania State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Named as the guardian of the genome, p53 is a tumor suppressor that regulates cell function, often through many different mechanisms such as DNA repair, apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, senescence, metabolism, and autophagy. One of the genes that p53 activates is MDM2, which forms a negative feedback loop since MDM2 induces the degradation of p53. When p53 activity is inhibited, damaged cells do not undergo cell cycle arrest or apoptosis. As 50% of human cancers inactivate p53 by mutation, current research focuses on reactivating p53 by developing drugs that target the p53-MDM2 interaction, which includes the binding of MDM2 and phosphorylation of p53. The objective of this article is to provide a short list and description of p53-MDM2 antagonists that may be excellent candidates for inducing cancer cell death. Relevant articles were searched for and identified using online databases such as PubMed and ScienceDirect. Increasing p53 levels, by targeting the p53-MDM2 interaction, can help p53 play its role as a tumor suppressor and induce cancer cell death. Researchers have identified different compounds that can act as inhibitors, either by directly binding to MDM2 or by modifying p53 with phosphorylation. The results associated with the drugs demonstrate the importance of targeting such interactions to inhibit cancer cell growth, which indicates that the use of the compounds may improve cancer therapeutics.

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Antineoplastic AgentsNeoplasmsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2Tumor Suppressor Protein p53ApoptosisCell DeathHumansAntineoplastic AgentsMDM2 protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2Tumor Suppressor Protein p53cancerchemotherapyMdm2p53small molecules

Identifiers

PMID35563397
PMCPMC9103871
OpenAlexW4225255854

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