Dirigir la regulación de la transcripción en el cáncer con un inhibidor covalente de CDK7

Nicholas Kwiatkowski1, Tinghu Zhang2, Peter B Rahl3

  • 11] Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [4].

Nature
|July 22, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores descubrieron THZ1, un nuevo inhibidor covalente dirigido a la cinasa 7 dependiente de ciclina (CDK7). Este medicamento muestra una sensibilidad excepcional en ciertas líneas de células cancerosas, como la leucemia linfoblástica aguda de células T, al interrumpir los factores clave de transcripción.

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