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  2. Reengineered epipodophyllotoxin

Reengineered epipodophyllotoxin

  • Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Oct 28;48(84):10416-8. doi: 10.1039/c2cc35044k.
Igor V Magedov 1 Nikolai M Evdokimov Menuka Karki Amanda S Peretti Dustin T Lima Liliya V Frolova Mary R Reisenauer Anntherese E Romero Paul Tongwa Alexandr Fonari Jeff Altig Snezna Rogelj Mikhail Yu Antipin Charles B Shuster Alexander Kornienko
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  • 1 Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA. imagedov@nmt.edu
Abstract

A variant structural skeleton of epipodophyllotoxin was synthesized and found to rival the natural cyclolignan in antiproliferative and microtubule destabilizing properties. This discovery leads to a new structural class of tubulin targeting agents.

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