Structure-based molecular insights into matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors in cancer treatments

Protease inhibitors are of considerable interest as anticancer agents. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) were the earliest type of proteases considered as anticancer targets. The developments of MMP inhibitors (MMPIs) by pharmaceutical companies can be dated from the early 1980s. Thus far, none of the over 50 MMPIs entering clinical trials have been approved. This work summarizes the reported studies on the structure of MMPs and complexes with ligands and inhibitors, based on which, the authors analyzed the clinical failures of MMPIs in a structural biological manner. Furthermore, MMPs were systematically compared with urokinase, a protease-generating plasmin, which plays similar pathological roles in cancer development; the reasons for the clinical successes of urokinase inhibitors and the clinical failures of MMPIs are discussed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Future medicinal chemistry - 14(2022), 1 vom: 29. Jan., Seite 35-51

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lin, Haili [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Mingdong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

EC 3.4.21.73
EC 3.4.24.-
Hydroxamic Acids
Inhibitors
Journal Article
Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
Matrix Metalloproteinases
Matrix metalloproteinases
Molecular mechanism
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Structural biology
Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinases
Urokinase
Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator

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Date Completed 10.02.2022

Date Revised 10.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4155/fmc-2021-0246

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM333174062