Natural Products and Derivatives as Leads to Cell Cycle Pathway Targets in Cancer Chemotherapy
Natural Products and Derivatives as Leads to Cell Cycle Pathway Targets in Cancer Chemotherapy
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DOI:
10.2174/1568009023333791
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发表时间:
2002-01-01
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3
通讯作者:
Sausville, Edward A.
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作者:
Newman, David J.;Cragg, Gordon M.;Sausville, Edward A.
The influence of natural products upon drug discovery in general has been quite impressive; one only has to look at the number of clinically active drugs that are in use in cancer therapy to see how many either are natural products or have a natural product pharmacophore. What is now becoming quite apparent is that materials from natural sources are excellent probes (indicators) for cellular targets that when modulated, may well have a deleterious effect upon the cycling of a tumor cell through the conventional cell cycle. If the particular target is not expressed in normal cell cycling, then a directed "perturbation" of the tumor cell's cycle may well lead to a novel method of treatment for specific tumor types. In this review we have not attempted to be exhaustive but have given a current overview of how natural products from marine, microbial and plant sources have permitted in-depth analyses of various parts of the cell cycle under varying conditions with the ultimate aims of attempting to "control or perturb" the cycling of tumor cells in a fashion that permits their ultimate removal via cellular death, with a minimum of trauma to the host.