a new target for cancer therapy.
Nature Reviews Cancer 8, 491-495 (July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrc2420
Targeting the oncogene and kinome chaperone CDC37
Abstract
CDC37 is a molecular chaperone that physically stabilizes the catalytic domains found in protein kinases and is therefore a wide-spectrum regulator of protein phosphorylation. It is also an overexpressed oncoprotein that mediates carcinogenesis by stabilizing the compromised structures of mutant and/or overexpressed oncogenic kinases. Recent work shows that such dependency of malignant cells on increased CDC37 expression is a vulnerability that can be targeted in cancer by agents that deplete or inhibit CDC37. CDC37 is thus a candidate for broad-spectrum molecular cancer therapy.
