Title:Multi-Targeted Anticancer Agents
Volume: 17
Issue: 28
Author(s): Wei Zheng, Yao Zhao*, Qun Luo, Yang Zhang, Kui Wu and Fuyi Wang*
Affiliation:
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences; CAS Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems; National Centre for Mass Spectrometry in Beijing; Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190,China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences; CAS Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems; National Centre for Mass Spectrometry in Beijing; Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190,China
Keywords:
Anticancer agents, Multi-targeting, Drug development, Precision medicine, BCR-ABL, Cytotoxic anticancer drug.
Abstract: There is a great demand for the development of novel anticancer drugs, due to the increasing
morbidity and high mortality of cancer. To date, chemotherapy still plays a central role in the
clinical treatment of cancer, but this role is being reduced by targeted therapies. Since cancer is a
complicated and multiple genes involved disease, drugs that act at multiple targets can enhance efficacy
and lower drug resistance, and are thought to be the future of novel anticancer drug development.
In this paper, we discuss the recent development of “single molecule, multi-target” anticancer
agents that combine two or more pharmacophores in a single molecule, including organic multitargeted
anticancer agents and metal based complexes such as platinum, ruthenium, iridium and rhodium
complexes. These efforts will contribute to clinical cancer therapy and benefit patients in the future.
