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farnesylation

Features

- farnesyl transferase
- farnesyl transferase inhibitors (FTIs)

Therapeutics

- FTIs are signal transduction inhibitors that display promising clinical activity against a broad spectrum of malignancies.

References

- Meta M, Yang SH, Bergo MO, Fong LG, Young SG. Protein farnesyltransferase inhibitors and progeria. Trends Mol Med. 2006 Oct;12(10):480-7. PMID: #16942914#

- Karp JE, Lancet JE. Targeting the process of farynesylation for therapy of hematologic malignancies. Curr Mol Med. 2005 Nov;5(7):643-52. PMID: #16305490#

- Magee T, Seabra MC. Fatty acylation and prenylation of proteins: what’s hot in fat. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2005 Apr;17(2):190-6. PMID: #15780596#

- Brunner TB, Hahn SM, Gupta AK, Muschel RJ, McKenna WG, Bernhard EJ. Farnesyltransferase inhibitors: an overview of the results of preclinical and clinical investigations. Cancer Res. 2003 Sep 15;63(18):5656-68. PMID: #14522880#

- Sebti SM, Der CJ. Opinion: Searching for the elusive targets of farnesyltransferase inhibitors. Nat Rev Cancer. 2003 Dec;3(12):945-51. PMID: #14737124#