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Natural products as enzyme inhibitors : an industrial perspective
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ISBN: 9811909318 9811909326 Year: 2022 Publisher: Gateway East, Singapore : Springer,

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Regulation of carcinogenesis, angiogenesis and metastasis by the proprotein convertases (PCs) : a new potential strategy in cancer therapy
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ISBN: 1280852593 9786610852598 1402051328 1402047932 9401780900 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer,

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Convertases are widely expressed activating enzymes involved in various physiological and pathological processes. The purpose of this book is to provide detailed and updated information on the role of these molecules in cancer. This book is the first to summarize current knowledge about the importance of protein precursors maturation by the convertases in tumor progression, angiogenesis and metastasis. In each chapter, the importance of the convertases in the activation of various cancer-related molecules including growth factors, adhesion molecules and proteases is discussed. Also this book covers the role of some convertases in the clinical setting. The book will be of interest to basic researchers as well as clinicians. It will also interest those working in the cancer research area and the pharmaceutical industry, who are looking for new strategies in cancer therapy. Finally, this book is also a useful reference for researchers and clinicians pursuing research on growth factors, adhesion molecules, proteases and their implications in the processes of tumor progression, angiogenesis and metastasis.


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Prognostic and therapeutic applications of RKIP in cancer
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ISBN: 9780128224519 0128224517 9780128196120 0128196122 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Academic Press

Design of enzyme inhibitors as drugs
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ISBN: 0192621343 0192615378 Year: 1989 Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press,

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This book presents authoritative accounts of the major target enzymes and their inhibitors which are currently the focus of research. The introductory chapters describe the underlying physical and chemical processes of enzyme inhibition and the general principles of inhibitor design using themany sophisticated and computer-based techniques that are now available. Subsequent chapters discuss in detail the wide range of individual target enzymes and inhibitors, emphasizing the factors which affect their usefulness in the clinical context : bioavailability, pharmacokinetics andside-effects.


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PARP Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy
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ISBN: 9783319141510 3319141503 9783319141503 3319141511 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana,

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PARP Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of the role of PARP—poly ADP ribose polymerase—in cancer therapy. The volume covers the history of the discovery of PARP and its role in DNA repair. Additionally, it describes the discovery of the PARP family, and includes a discussion of other DNA maintenance-associated PARPs. As well, the volume features a section on the accessible chemistry behind the development of inhibitors. PARP inhibitors—PARPi—are a group of pharmacological inhibitors that are particularly good targets for cancer therapy. PARP plays a pivotal role in DNA repair and may contribute to the therapeutic resistance to DNA-damaging agents used to treat cancer. Researchers have learned a great deal about the biology of PARP and how tumor-specific defects in DNA repair can be exploited by PARPi. The “synthetic lethality” of PARPi is an exciting concept for cancer therapy, and has led to heightened activity in this area.


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Kinetics of Enzyme-Modifier Interactions : Selected Topics in the Theory and Diagnosis of Inhibition and Activation Mechanisms
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ISBN: 9783709114025 3709114012 9783709114018 3709114020 Year: 2015 Publisher: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer,

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The kinetic mechanisms by which enzymes interact with inhibitors and activators, collectively called modifiers, are scrutinized and ranked taxonomically into autonomous species in a way similar to that used in the biological classification of plants and animals. The systematization of the mechanisms is based on two fundamental characters: the allosteric linkage between substrate and modifier and the factor by which a modifier affects the catalytic constant of the enzyme. Combinations of the physically significant states of these two characters in an ancestor-descendant-like fashion reveal the existence of seventeen modes of interaction that cover the needs of total, partial and fine-tuning modulation of enzyme activity. These interactions comprise five linear and five hyperbolic inhibition mechanisms, five nonessential activation mechanisms and two hybrid species that manifest either hyperbolic inhibition or nonessential activation characteristics depending on substrate concentration. Five essential activation mechanisms, which are taxonomically independent of the mentioned basic species, complete the inventory of enzyme modifiers. Often masked under conventional umbrella terms or treated as anomalous cases, all seventeen basic inhibition and nonessential activation mechanisms are represented in the biochemical and pharmacological literature of this and the past century, either in the form of rapid or slow-onset reversible interactions, or as irreversible modification processes. The full potential of enzyme inhibitors and activators can only be appreciated after elucidating the details of their kinetic mechanisms of action exploring the entire range of physiologically significant reactant concentrations. This book highlights the wide spectrum of allosteric enzyme modification in physiological occurrences as well as in pharmacological and biotechnological applications that embrace simple and multiple enzyme-modifier interactions. The reader is guided in the journey through this still partly uncharted territory with the aid of mechanistically-oriented criteria aimed at showing the logical way towards the identification of a particular mechanism.

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