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  2. Identification of mitoxantrone as a new inhibitor of ROS1 fusion protein in non-small cell lung cancer cells

Identification of mitoxantrone as a new inhibitor of ROS1 fusion protein in non-small cell lung cancer cells

  • Medchemcomm. 2017 Jan 26;8(3):621-624. doi: 10.1039/c6md00643d.
Lian-Xiang Luo 1 Xing-Xing Fan 1 Ying Li 1 Xia Peng 2 Yin-Chun Ji 2 Wendy Wen-Luan Hsiao 1 Liang Liu 1 Elaine Lai-Han Leung 1 Xiao-Jun Yao 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau Institute For Applied Research in Medicine and Health , Macau University of Science and Technology , Macau SAR , China . Email: lliu@must.edu.mo ; Email: lhleung@must.edu.mo ; Email: xjyao@must.edu.mo ; ; Tel: +853 8897 2438.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Drug Research , Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica , Chinese Academic of Sciences , Shanghai , China.
Abstract

Mitoxantrone, an FDA-approved drug for multiple sclerosis and hormone refractory prostate Cancer, is identified as a potent inhibitor of ROS1 fusion protein by in silico screening in non-small cell lung Cancer cells. Mitoxantrone can suppress the phosphorylation of ROS1 and subsequently inhibit its downstream signaling pathway and thus induce cell Apoptosis.

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