Aurora inhibitors



 

Aurora enzyme inhibitors.

Drug development

A new approach to inhibiting cancer growth that shows great promise for structure-based drug development is targeting Merck & Co.[15].

Vinca Alkaloids

Vinca alkaloids, including the natural products vinorelbine, are antimitotic drugs that are widely used in cancer treatment[16].

Aurora structure

 

The structure and active site of Aurora-2-adenosine complex has been determined[17]. The hinge (yellow), glycine-rich loop (blue), and activation loop (red) are key features of the protein kinases.

See also

References

  1. ^ Andrews PD, Knatko E, Moore WJ, Swedlow JR. Mitotic mechanics: the auroras come into view. Current Opin in Cell Biol.(2003) 15: pp.672-83
  2. ^ Katayama H., Brinkley WR, Sen S. The Aurora kinases: Role in cell transformation and tumorigenesis. Cancer and Metastasis Reviews (2003) 22(4): pp.451-64
  3. ^ Ewart-Toland A, Briassoului P, de Koning JP et al, Identification of Stk6/STK15 as a candidate low-penetrance tumor susceptibility gene in mouse and human. Nature Genetics (2003) 34(4): pp.403-12
  4. ^ Nigg E.A. Mitotic kinases as regulators of cell division and its checkpoints Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2:21-32 (2001)
  5. ^ Nicholas Keen & Stephen Taylor, Aurora-kinase inhibitors as anticancer agents. Nature Reviews Cancer 4, 927-36 (2004)
  6. ^ Richard D. Carvajal, Archie Tse, and Gary K. Schwartz Aurora Kinases: New Targets for Cancer Therapy Clin. Cancer Res., (2006) 12: pp.6869-75.
  7. ^ H Goto, Y Yasui, EA Nigg, and M Inagaki Aurora-B phosphorylates Histone H3 at serine28 with regard to the mitotic chromosome condensation Genes Cells, (2002) 7: pp11-7
  8. ^ Karine Monier, Sandrine Mouradian, and Kevin F. Sullivan DNA methylation promotes Aurora-B-driven phosphorylation of histone H3 in chromosomal subdomain J. Cell Sci., (2007) 120: pp.101-14
  9. ^ Edmund Chun Yu Lee et al., Targeting Aurora Kinases for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res. (2006) 66: pp.4996-5002.
  10. ^ Hua Yang et al., Aurora-A Kinase Regulates Telomerase Activity through c-Myc in Human Ovarian and Breast Epithelial Cells Cancer Res. (2004) 64: pp.463-67.
  11. ^ Jingyan Fu, Minglei Bian, Qing Jiang, and Chuanmao Zhang Roles of Aurora Kinases in Mitosis and Tumorigenesis Mol. Cancer Res., (2007) 5: pp.1-10.
  12. ^ Bedrick B. Gadea and Joan V. Ruderman Aurora Kinase Inhibitor ZM447439 Blocks Chromosome-induced Spindle Assembly, the Completion of Chromosome Condensation, and the Establishment of the Spindle Integrity Checkpoint in Xenopus Egg Extracts Mol. Biol. Cell, (2005) 16: pp.1305-18.
  13. ^ Hauf, S. et al. The small molecule Hesperadin reveals a role for Aurora B in correcting kinetochore-microtubule attachment and in maintaining the spindle assembly checkpoint. J. Cell Biol. (2003) 161, pp.281–94
  14. ^ Shiho Sakita-Suto et al., Aurora-B Regulates RNA Methyltransferase NSUN2 Mol. Biol. Cell, (2007) 18: pp.1107 17
  15. ^ Harrington, E. A. et al. VX-680, a potent and selective small molecule inhibitor of the Aurora kinases, suppresses tumor growth in vivo. Nature Med. 10, 262–7 (2004)
  16. ^ Donehower RC and Rowinsky EK (1993) Anticancer drugs derived from plants, in Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology (De Vita VT, Hellman S, and Rosenberg SA editors) pp 409–417, JB Lippincott, Philadelphia
  17. ^ Graham M. T. et al., Crystal Structure of Aurora-2, an Oncogenic Serine/Threonine Kinase J. Biol. Chem., (2002) 277: pp.42419-22
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