Eresha Mendis, Moon-Moo Kim, Niranjan Rajapakse, Se-Kwon Kim
Department of Chemistry, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, Republic of Korea.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 2006 Jun 15Experimental evidences have confirmed that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a fundamental role in a wide variety of pathologic conditions and recent advances in medicinal chemistry approach to the design of MMP inhibitors with desired structural and functional properties. Among MMPs, MMP-9 has demonstrated to play a major role in the establishment of metastases and it is substantially increased in the majority of malignant tumors. Inhibition of MMP-9 is thought to have a therapeutic benefit to cancer. Results of this study present a novel synthetic MMP-9 inhibitor that downregulates MMP-9 expression level in HT1080, human fibrosarcoma cells.
Eresha Mendis, Moon-Moo Kim, Niranjan Rajapakse, Se-Kwon Kim. Carboxy derivatized glucosamine is a potent inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in HT1080 cells. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters. 2006 Jun 15;16(12):3105-10
PMID: 16616490
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