G-quadruplexes as potential therapeutic targets for embryonal tumors

Molecules

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 12500-12537

  Shalaby, Tarek ^a   Fiaschetti, Giulio ^a   Nagasawa, Kazuo ^b   Shin Ya, Kazuo ^c   Baumgartner, Martin ^a   Grotzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryonal tumors; G quadruplexes; MYC; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; LIGAND;

ANIMAL; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; DRUG EFFECT; NEOPLASM; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DNA; DRUG DESIGN; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84886604881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules181012500     Document Type: Review

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