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Recent progress with microtubule stabilizers: new compounds, binding modes and cellular activities

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Recent progress in the chemistry and biology of these diverse microtubule stabilizers focusing on the wide range of organisms that produce these compounds, their mechanisms of inhibiting microtubules-dependent processes, mechanisms of drug resistance, and their interactions with tubulin including their distinct binding sites and modes are covered.
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This article is published in Natural Product Reports.The article was published on 2014-02-11 and is currently open access. It has received 113 citations till now.

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Fluorescent dyes and probes for super-resolution microscopy of microtubules and tracheoles in living cells and tissues

TL;DR: Nanoscopy compatible fluorescent tubulin probes can be used to stain microtubules and chitin-rich taenidia in the insect tracheoles.
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Tumor‐Targeted Paclitaxel Delivery and Enhanced Penetration Using TAT‐Decorated Liposomes Comprising Redox‐Responsive Poly(Ethylene Glycol)

TL;DR: C-TAT-LP is a promising tumor-targeting drug carrier that achieved enhanced tumor distribution and demonstrated superior delivery efficiency in vivo and has no obvious drug-related adverse events for liver and heart.
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Mechanism of microtubule stabilization by taccalonolide AJ.

TL;DR: This work proposes that the β-tubulin E-site is locked into a GTP-preferred status by AJ binding, and provides experimental evidence for the connection between MSA binding and tubulin nucleotide state, and will help design new MSAs to overcome taxane resistance.
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Microtubule-Targeting Drugs: More than Antimitotics.

TL;DR: The role of microtubules in cells, the proliferation paradox of cells in culture as compared to cancers in patients, and evidence that microtubule-targeting drugs inhibit cellular signaling pathways important for tumorigenesis are described.
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Microtubules as a target for anticancer drugs.

TL;DR: Highly dynamic mitotic-spindle microtubules are among the most successful targets for anticancer therapy, and it is now known that at lower concentrations, microtubule-targeted drugs can suppress micro Tubule dynamics without changingmicrotubule mass; this action leads to mitotic block and apoptosis.
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Promotion of microtubule assembly in vitro by taxol

TL;DR: It is reported here that taxol acts as a promoter of calf brain microtubule assembly in vitro, in contrast to plant products such as colchicine and podophyllotoxin, which inhibit assembly.
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Microtubule-binding agents: a dynamic field of cancer therapeutics

TL;DR: The screening of a range of botanical species and marine organisms has yielded promising new antitubulin agents with novel properties, and the three main objectives are enhanced tumour specificity, reduced neurotoxicity and insensitivity to chemoresistance mechanisms.
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Epothilones, a New Class of Microtubule-stabilizing Agents with a Taxol-like Mechanism of Action

TL;DR: Epothilones represent a novel structural class of compounds, the first to be described since the original discovery ofTaxol, which not only mimic the biological effects of taxol but also appear to bind to the same microtubule-binding site as taxol.
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