Title:Recent Advances in Combretastatin A-4 Inspired Inhibitors of Tubulin
Polymerization: An Update
Volume: 29
Issue: 20
关键词:
康布他他汀A-4,微管,癌症,药物开发,微管蛋白聚合抑制剂,MTAS。
摘要: Cancer is one of the leading causes of fatality and mortality worldwide. Investigations
on developing therapeutic strategies for cancer are supported throughout the
world. The massive achievements in molecular sciences involving biochemistry, molecular
chemistry, medicine, and pharmacy, and high throughput techniques such as genomics
and proteomics have helped create new potential drug targets for cancer treatment.
Microtubules are very attractive targets for cancer therapy because of the crucial
roles they play in cell division. In recent years, lots of efforts have been put into the identification
of new microtubule-targeting agents (MTAs) in anticancer therapy. Combretastatin
A-4 (CA-4) is a natural compound that binds to microtubules’ colchicine binding
site and inhibits microtubule polymerization. Due to CA-4’s structural simplicity, many
analogs have been synthesized. This article summarises the new molecule development
efforts to reach CA-4 analogues by pharmacophore group modifications, which have
been reported since 2015.