Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

The anti-cancer drugs curaxins target spatial genome organization

  • Omar L. Kantidze,
  • Artem V. Luzhin,
  • Ekaterina V. Nizovtseva,
  • Alfiya Safina,
  • Maria E. Valieva,
  • Arkadiy K. Golov,
  • Artem K. Velichko,
  • Alexander V. Lyubitelev,
  • Alexey V. Feofanov,
  • Katerina V. Gurova,
  • Vasily M. Studitsky,
  • Sergey V. Razin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09500-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Curaxins are a recently discovered class of anti-cancer agents that disturbs DNA/histone interactions within. Here the authors provide evidence that curaxins affect the spatial genome organization and compromise enhancer-promoter communication necessary for expression of several oncogenes, including MYC.