- Exploiting mitochondrial and oxidative vulnerabilities with a synthetic analog of pancratistatin in combination with piperlongumine for cancer therapy.
Exploiting mitochondrial and oxidative vulnerabilities with a synthetic analog of pancratistatin in combination with piperlongumine for cancer therapy.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (2017-09-21)
Dennis Ma, Tyler Gilbert, Christopher Pignanelli, Daniel Tarade, Megan Noel, Fadi Mansour, Manika Gupta, Sabrina Ma, Jesse Ropat, Colin Curran, Sergey Vshyvenko, Tomas Hudlicky, Siyaram Pandey
PMID28928246
ABSTRACT
Harsh adverse effects as a result of nonspecific targeting of chemotherapeutics currently pose obstacles in cancer therapy; thus, it would be invaluable to devise novel approaches to specifically target cancer cells. The natural compound pancratistatin (PST) has been shown to preferentially induce apoptosis in a variety of cancer cell types. Recently, several analogs of PST were shown to be efficacious in inducing apoptosis in a variety of aggressive cancer cell types