Thirty years of HDAC inhibitors: 2020 hindsight

Terence C. S. Ho, Alex H. Y. Chan, A. Ganesan

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    Abstract

    It is now thirty years since the first report of a potent zinc-dependent histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor appeared. Since then, five HDAC inhibitors have received regulatory approval for cancer chemotherapy, while many others are in clinical development for oncology as well as other therapeutic indications. This perspective reviews the biological and medicinal chemistry advances over the last three decades with an emphasis on the design of selective inhibitors that discriminate between the eleven human HDAC isoforms.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)12460–12484
    Number of pages25
    JournalJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
    Volume63
    Issue number21
    Early online date1 Jul 2020
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2020

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