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SUBMITTER: Gavenonis J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4847944 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gavenonis Jason J Jonas Nicholas E NE Kritzer Joshua A JA
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20140614 15
Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone implicated in many diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative disease. Most inhibitors target the ATPase site in Hsp90's N-terminal domain, with relatively few inhibitors of other domains reported to date. Here, we show that peptides derived from a short helix at the C-terminus of Hsp90 show micromolar activity as Hsp90 inhibitors in vitro. These inhibitors do not block the N-terminal domain's ATP-binding site, and thus are likely to bind at the C-terminal dom ...[more]