Cell cycle proteins as promising targets in cancer therapy

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 93-115

  Otto, Tobias ^a,b   Sicinski, Piotr ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AURORA KINASE; AURORA KINASE INHIBITOR; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 6; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR; POLO LIKE KINASE; POLO LIKE KINASE INHIBITOR; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WEE1 PROTEIN; AURORA A KINASE; CHECKPOINT KINASE 1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 2; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; POLO-LIKE KINASE 1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; WEE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA DAMAGE CHECKPOINT; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AURORA KINASE A; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHECKPOINT KINASE 1; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 4; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 6; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85010843462     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2016.138     Document Type: Review

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