Designing and repurposing drugs to target intrinsically disordered proteins for cancer treatment: using NUPR1 as a paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) do not have a well-defined structure, but they have key biological tasks in cancer development. By using the disordered cancer-related protein NUPR1 as a proof-of-concept, we have developed a new multidisciplinary approach to tackle drug-design against IDPs, using it to repurpose drugs for treating pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

SUBMITTER: Santofimia-Castano P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736491 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature