
Anticancer Drugs
Microtubules as a target molecules
Drugs inhibiting cell mitosis primarily contain three classes: vinca domain, colchicine domain, and taxane site. Inhibition mechanism aims at binding with different parts of tublins to obstruct microtubles motion and further interfere the formation of spindle, cease cell mitosis, and eventually cause cell apoptosis. Known crystal structures for different drugs and tublins provide a good molecular target for drug screening to design better drug that leads to decrease the current drug toxicity.
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