Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Allosteric cross-talk in chromatin can mediate drug-drug synergy

  • Zenita Adhireksan,
  • Giulia Palermo,
  • Tina Riedel,
  • Zhujun Ma,
  • Reyhan Muhammad,
  • Ursula Rothlisberger,
  • Paul J. Dyson,
  • Curt A. Davey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14860
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Allostery and drug-drug synergism can yield potential novel therapies with existing molecules. Here, the authors provide evidence that two unrelated drugs have increased cytotoxicity in cancer cells, which coincides with increased formation of chromatin adducts.