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SUBMITTER: Zhang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2753403 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090401 14
Considerable effort has focused on the development of selective protein farnesyl transferase (FTase) and protein geranylgeranyl transferase (GGTase) inhibitors as cancer chemotherapeutics. Here, we report a new strategy for anticancer therapeutic agents involving inhibition of farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPPS) and geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGPPS), the two enzymes upstream of FTase and GGTase, by lipophilic bisphosphonates. Due to dual site targeting and decreased polarity, the comp ...[more]