Special Issue "G‐quadruplex Ligands: Recent Advances"
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2023) | Viewed by 1424
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cancer; G-quadruplex; aging
Dr. Sara Iachettini
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are guanine-rich non-canonical secondary structures of nucleic acids which were discovered in vitro almost a half century ago. From the early 1980s onward, these structures have also been identified in eukaryotic cells, first at the level of telomeres and more recently in regulatory regions of certain genes.
Due their involvement in numerous biological processes and in the pathogenesis of several disease, including cancer, the interest in G4s and their targeting has undergone exponential growth over the last few years. Notably, G4 ligands constitute a large family of heterogeneous molecules which exert their functions through recognition, binding and stabilization of G4 structures. In terms of anti-cancer activity, the efficacy of G4 ligands can be attributed to their capability to inhibit telomerase activity (long-term effects) and induce DNA damage and/or modulation of cancer-related genes (short-term effects). Interestingly, while the knowledge concerning the structural organization of G4s has been extensively characterized, the functions, the potential application of these structures and the development of novel G4s are still active research topics worthy of further investigation.
Dr. Zizza Pasquale
Dr. Sara Iachettini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- G-quadruplex
- telomeres
- aging
- cancer
- genomic stability
- G4-ligands
- DNA damage
