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A mitotic inhibitor, microtubule inhibitor, or tubulin inhibitor, is a drug that inhibits mitosis, or cell division, and is used in treating cancer, gout, and nail fungus. These drugs disrupt microtubules , which are structures that pull the chromosomes apart when a cell divides.
Pages in category "Microtubule inhibitors" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Benomyl; C.
Monomethyl auristatin E is an antimitotic agent which inhibits cell division by blocking the polymerisation of tubulin.The linker to the monoclonal antibody is stable in extracellular fluid, but is cleaved by cathepsin once the conjugate has entered a tumor cell, thus activating the antimitotic mechanism.
Typically the microtubule targeting drugs can be found in the clinic where they are used therapeutically in the treatment of some forms of cancer. [1] As a result of the lack of specificity for specific type of actin (i.e. cannot distinguish between cardiac, smooth muscle, muscle and cytoskeletal forms of actin), the use of these drugs in ...
Enfortumab vedotin, sold under the brand name Padcev, is an antibody-drug conjugate [6] used for the treatment of urothelial cancer. [4] [7] It is a nectin-4-directed antibody and microtubule inhibitor conjugate.
Nocodazole is an antineoplastic agent which exerts its effect in cells by interfering with the polymerization of microtubules. [1] Microtubules are one type of fibre which constitutes the cytoskeleton, and the dynamic microtubule network has several important roles in the cell, including vesicular transport, forming the mitotic spindle and in cytokinesis.
The principal mechanism of action of the taxane class of drugs is the disruption of microtubule function. Microtubules are essential to cell division, and taxanes stabilize GDP-bound tubulin in the microtubule, thereby inhibiting the process of cell division as depolymerization is prevented. Thus, in essence, taxanes are mitotic inhibitors.
Demecolcine is a microtubule-depolymerizing drug like vinblastine. It acts by two distinct mechanisms. At very low concentration it binds to microtubule plus end to suppress microtubule dynamics. [3] Recent study has found at higher concentration demecolcine can promote microtubule detachment from microtubule organizing center.