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Strategies to Inhibit Myc and Their Clinical Applicability
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Whitfield JR
; Beaulieu ME
; Soucek L
Front Cell Dev Biol
2017[]; 5
(ä): 10
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Myc is an oncogene deregulated in most-perhaps all-human cancers. Each Myc family
member, c-, L-, and N-Myc, has been connected to tumor progression and
maintenance. Myc is recognized as a "most wanted" target for cancer therapy, but
has for many years been considered undruggable, mainly due to its nuclear
localization, lack of a defined ligand binding site, and physiological function
essential to the maintenance of normal tissues. The challenge of identifying a
pharmacophore capable of overcoming these hurdles is reflected in the current
absence of a clinically-viable Myc inhibitor. The first attempts to inhibit Myc
used antisense technology some three decades ago, followed by small molecule
inhibitors discovered through "classical" compound library screens. Notable
breakthroughs proving the feasibility of systemic Myc inhibition were made with
the Myc dominant negative mutant Omomyc, showing both the great promise in
targeting this infamous oncogene for cancer treatment as well as allaying fears
about the deleterious side effects that Myc inhibition might have on normal
proliferating tissues. During this time many other strategies have appeared in an
attempt to drug the undruggable, including direct and indirect targeting,
knockdown, protein/protein and DNA interaction inhibitors, and translation and
expression regulation. The inhibitors range from traditional small molecules to
natural chemicals, to RNA and antisense, to peptides and miniproteins. Here, we
briefly describe the many approaches taken so far, with a particular focus on
their potential clinical applicability.