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  2. A New Chemical Probe Challenges the Broad Cancer Essentiality of CK2

A New Chemical Probe Challenges the Broad Cancer Essentiality of CK2

  • Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2021 May;42(5):313-315. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2021.02.002.
Marco P Licciardello 1 Paul Workman 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit, Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
  • 2 Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit, Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK. Electronic address: paul.workman@icr.ac.uk.
Abstract

Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) is highly expressed in Cancer and has been considered a potential therapeutic target. Wells and colleagues developed and characterized the new CK2 Inhibitor SGC-CK2-1. Unexpectedly, this potent and highly selective chemical probe does not show broad antiproliferative activity in Cancer cells.

Keywords

COVID-19; cancer; drug target; neurodegenerative diseases; protein kinase; selective CK2 inhibitor.

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