A novel microtubule inhibitor 4SC-207 with anti-proliferative activity in taxane-resistant cells.

ABSTRACT: Microtubule inhibitors are invaluable tools in cancer chemotherapy: taxanes and vinca alkaloids have been successfully used in the clinic over the past thirty years against a broad range of tumors. However, two factors have limited the effectiveness of microtubule inhibitors: toxicity and resistance. In particular, the latter is highly unpredictable, variable from patient to patient and is believed to be the cause of treatment failure in most cases of metastatic cancers. For these reasons, there is an increasing demand for new microtubule inhibitors that can overcome resistance mechanisms and that, at the same time, have reduced side effects. Here we present a novel microtubule inhibitor, 4SC-207, which shows strong anti-proliferative activity in a large panel of tumor cell lines with an a

SUBMITTER: Bausch E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3855670 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature