Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 26, Issue 9, Pages 1351-1356Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210204
Keywords
deacetylases; histones; histone deacetylase inhibitors; apoptosis
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The path to the discovery of suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA, vorinostat) began over three decades ago with our studies designed to understand why dimethylsulfoxide causes terminal differentiation of the virus-transformed cells, murine erythroleukemia cells. SAHA can cause growth arrest and death of a broad variety of transformed cells both in vitro and in vivo at concentrations that have little or no toxic effects on normal cells. It was discovered that SAHA inhibits the activity of histone deacetylases (HDACs), including all 11 known human class I and class II HDACs. HDACs have many protein targets whose structure and function are altered by acetylation including histones and non-histone proteins component of transcription factors controlling gene expression and proteins that regulate cell proliferation, migration and death. SAHA is in clinical trials and has significant anticancer activity against both hematologic and solid tumors at doses well tolerated by patients. A new drug application has been approved for SAHA ( vorinostat) treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
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