Marine Sourced Compounds as Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Inhibitors
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 August 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural products chemistry; chemical biology of natural products; NMR spectroscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) is a transcription factor that regulates how cells respond to low-oxygen environments. Downstream target genes of HIF that are activated under hypoxic conditions include vascular endothelium growth factor (VEGF), lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA), and glucose transporter 1. HIF is upregulated in a wide range of cancers and is fundamentally involved in cancer development, tumor angiogenesis and invasion, and energy metabolism. Inhibition or dysregulation of HIF is an attractive therapeutic strategy for targeting hypoxic solid tumors that are often difficult to treat. Marine compounds that interfere with HIF function or other elements of cellular hypoxia response pathways will be highlighted in this Special Issue. The molecular mechanism of action and preclinical development studies of these compounds, as well as biological probe development and chemical biology studies, are of particular interest.
Dr. Kirk R. Gustafson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hypoxia Inducible Factor
- marine drugs/natural products
- cancer development
- tumor angiogenesis
- transcription factors
- targeted drugs development
- hypoxia response
