Researchers from the lab of Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D., the Founder and Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, have identified new potential anti-tumor agents that might be effective in treating mesothelioma, one of the deadliest cancer tumors.
Scientists tested new pyrazolo [3,4-d ]pyrimidine derivative inhibitors of the SRC kinase, a well-established molecular target in cancer therapy. They found that these SRC inhibitors effectively induced cell death, through apoptosis, in mesothelioma cell lines without affecting the normal mesothelial cells, thus supporting a possible use of these agents as a safe treatment for mesothelioma. Their findings appear in the journal Oncogene.
Interestingly, the researchers also found that the SRC inhibitors induced cell death was accompanied by an increase in the nuclear stability of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27. This is "particularly intriguing considering that the loss of nuclear p27 expression is a well established adverse prognostic factor in mesothelioma and p27 nuclear localization is crucial for its tumor suppressive function." said the leading author of the study, Paola Indovina, Ph.D. of the University of Siena and assistant Professor at the Sbarro Institute.
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