Publications by authors named "Nikita Acharekar"

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  • Siderophores, like azotochelin, are unique natural products with potential as anticancer agents, prompting the creation of a library of analogs.
  • These analogs were tested for cytotoxicity against various cancer cell lines, revealing nine compounds with promising efficacy, particularly against lung cancer cells (NCI-H460).
  • Further analysis showed that specific compounds induced apoptosis and halted the cell cycle at the S phase, indicating their potential as effective treatments for cancer.
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Aims: The overexpression of ABC transporters on cancer cell membranes is one of the most common causes of multidrug resistance (MDR). This study investigates the impact of ABCC1 and ABCG2 on the resistance to talazoparib (BMN-673), a potent poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, in ovarian cancer treatment.

Methods: The cell viability test was used to indicate the effect of talazoparib in different cell lines.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic degenerative brain disorder with no clear pathogenesis or effective cure, accounting for 60-80% of cases of dementia. In recent years, the importance of neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of AD and other neurodegenerative disorders has come into focus. Previously, we made the serendipitous discovery that the widely used drug excipient N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) attenuates endotoxin-induced inflammatory responses in vivo.

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Colorectal cancer is a major health problem, and it is the third most diagnosed cancer in the United States. The current treatment for colorectal cancer includes irinotecan, a topoisomerase I inhibitor, and other targeted drugs, such as bevacizumab and regorafenib. The low response rates and incidence of high toxicity caused by these drugs instigated an evaluation of the anticancer efficacy of a series of 13 thiazolyl hydrazone derivatives of 1-indanone, and four compounds among them show favorable anticancer activity against some of the tested colorectal cancer cell lines with IC values ranging from 0.

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Overexpression of ABCG2 transporter in cancer cells has been linked to the development of multidrug resistance (MDR), an obstacle to cancer therapy. Our recent study uncovered that the MET inhibitor, tepotinib, is a potent reversal agent for ABCB1-mediated MDR. In the present study, we reported for the first time that the MET inhibitor tepotinib can also reverse ABCG2-mediated MDR and by directly binding to the drug-binding site of ABCG2 and reversibly inhibiting ABCG2 drug efflux activity, therefore enhancing the cytotoxicity of substrate drugs in drug-resistant cancer cells.

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  • Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), like Entospletinib (GS-9973), target B-cell receptor signaling and are in trials for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
  • The study explored GS-9973's ability to reverse multidrug resistance (MDR) in a non-small cell lung cancer cell line due to the overexpression of the ABCG2 transporter.
  • GS-9973 effectively blocked ABCG2's drug efflux activity and reduced its protein expression, suggesting potential for treating MDR cancers when combined with other anticancer drugs.
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Multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the major clinical challenges in cancer treatment and compromises the effectiveness of conventional anticancer chemotherapeutics. Among known mechanisms of drug resistance, drug efflux via ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters, namely P-glycoprotein (P-gp) has been characterized as a major mechanism of MDR. The primary function of ABC transporters is to regulate the transport of endogenous and exogenous small molecules across the membrane barrier in various tissues.

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