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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,760 Views
28 Pages

4 April 2022

Breast carcinoma (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer in women in the world. Although the advances in the treatment of BC patients are significant, numerous side effects, severe toxicity towards normal cells as well as the multidrug res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,942 Views
14 Pages

Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease with different intrinsic subtypes. The most aggressive subtype of BC–triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is characterized by high heterogeneity and metastasis rate, poor prognosis and lack of thera...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,730 Views
42 Pages

Recent Advances in the Discovery of SIRT1/2 Inhibitors via Computational Methods: A Perspective

  • Naomi Scarano,
  • Chiara Brullo,
  • Francesca Musumeci,
  • Enrico Millo,
  • Santina Bruzzone,
  • Silvia Schenone and
  • Elena Cichero

Sirtuins (SIRTs) are classified as class III histone deacetylases (HDACs), a family of enzymes that catalyze the removal of acetyl groups from the ε-N-acetyl lysine residues of histone proteins, thus counteracting the activity performed by hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,676 Views
21 Pages

Novel Thiazole-Based SIRT2 Inhibitors Discovered via Molecular Modelling Studies and Enzymatic Assays

  • Elena Abbotto,
  • Beatrice Casini,
  • Francesco Piacente,
  • Naomi Scarano,
  • Elena Cerri,
  • Michele Tonelli,
  • Cecilia Astigiano,
  • Enrico Millo,
  • Laura Sturla and
  • Santina Bruzzone
  • + 1 author

18 September 2023

Recently, the development of sirtuin small molecule inhibitors (SIRTIs) has been gaining attention for the treatment of different cancer types, but also to contrast neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, and autoimmune syndromes. In the search for SIRT...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,228 Views
20 Pages

Discovery of Novel Thiazole-Based SIRT2 Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents: Molecular Modeling, Chemical Synthesis and Biological Assays

  • Francesco Piacente,
  • Giorgia Guccione,
  • Naomi Scarano,
  • Dario Lunaccio,
  • Caterina Miro,
  • Elena Abbotto,
  • Annalisa Salis,
  • Bruno Tasso,
  • Monica Dentice and
  • Santina Bruzzone
  • + 2 authors

15 October 2024

The search and development of effective sirtuin small molecule inhibitors (SIRTIs) continues to draw great attention due to their wide range of pharmacological applications. Based on SIRTs’ involvement in different biological pathways, their li...