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  • Title: Targeting nuclear kinases in cancer: development of cell cycle kinase inhibitors.
    Author: Pitts TM, Davis SL, Eckhardt SG, Bradshaw-Pierce EL.
    Journal: Pharmacol Ther; 2014 May; 142(2):258-69. PubMed ID: 24362082.
    Abstract:
    Cellular proliferation is a tightly controlled set of events that is regulated by numerous nuclear protein kinases. The proteins involved include checkpoint kinases (CHK), cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK), which regulate the cell cycle and aurora kinases (AURK) and polo-like kinases (PLK), which regulate mitosis. In cancer, these nuclear kinases are often dysregulated and cause uncontrolled cell proliferation and growth. Much work has gone into developing novel therapeutics that target each of these protein kinases in cancer but none have been approved in patients. In this review we provide an overview of the current compounds being developed clinically to target these nuclear kinases involved in regulating the cell cycle and mitosis.
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