This article describes the structure-guided optimisation of a screening hit against the pro-survival protein BCL-XL, which is often overexpressed in solid tumors and results in malignant tumor cells showing resistance to anticancer treatments.
Structure-guided design of a selective BCL-XL inhibitor
Guillaume Lessene, Peter E Czabotar, Brad E Sleebs, Kerry Zobel, Kym N Lowes, Jerry M Adams, Jonathan B Baell, Peter M Colman, Kurt Deshayes, Wayne J Fairbrother, John A Flygare, Paul Gibbons, Wilhelmus J A Kersten, Sanji Kulasegaram, Rebecca M Moss, John P Parisot, Brian J Smith, Ian P Street, Hong Yang, David C S Huang and Keith G Watson
Nature Chemical Biology, 9, 390–397, (2013)
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