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A molecular perspective for the use of type IV tyrosine kinase inhibitors as anticancer therapeutics

Authors :
Rudradip Das
Asmita Choithramani
Amit Shard
Source :
Drug Discovery Today. 27:808-821
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2022.

Abstract

Tyrosine kinases are enzymes that can transfer a phosphate group from ATP to a specific protein tyrosine, serine or threonine residue within a cell, operating as a switch that can turn 'on' and 'off' causing different physiological alterations in the body. Mutated kinases have been shown to display an equilibrium shift toward the activated state. Types I-III have been studied intensively leading to drugs like imatinib (type II), cobimetinib (type III), among others. It is the same scenario for types V-VII; however, there is a lacuna in information regarding type IV inhibitors, although recently some advances have surfaced. This review aims to accumulate the knowledge gained so far about type IV inhibitors.

Details

ISSN :
13596446
Volume :
27
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Drug Discovery Today
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....b83d7abf860639c9656f1b3fdef9037b