Jin-Xue He, Meng Wang, Xia-Juan Huan, Chuan-Huizi Chen, Shan-Shan Song, Ying-Qing Wang, Xue-Mei Liao, Cun Tan, Qian He, Lin-Jiang Tong, Yu-Ting Wang, Xiao-Hua Li, Yi Su, Yan-Yan Shen, Yi-Ming Sun, Xin-Ying Yang, Yi Chen, Zhi-Wei Gao, Xiao-Yan Chen, Bing Xiong, Xiu-Lian Lu, Jian Ding, Chun-Hao Yang, Ze-Hong Miao
The approval of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor AZD2281 in 2014 marked the successful establishment of the therapeutic strategy targeting homologous recombination repair defects of cancers in the clinic. However, AZD2281 has poor water solubility, low tissue distribution and relatively weak in vivo anticancer activity, which appears to become limiting factors for its clinical use. In this study, we found that mefuparib hydrochloride (MPH) was a potent PARP inhibitor, possessing prominent in vitro and in vivo anticancer activity...
January 17, 2017: Oncotarget