Objective
Acetylation/deacetylation by histone acetylases (HAT) and deacetylases (HDAC) regulates gene transcription and specific functions, such as tumour suppression by p53. Abnormalities of HAT or HDAC are frequently found in tumours. Targeting of HDAC by small compounds is effective in the differentiation treatment of a small subset of leukaemia. We aim to determine whether HDACs are suitable general targets for cancer drug discovery. We will characterize the mechanisms of activities of HDAC/HAT in normal and cancer cells, and screen tumours with a panel of HDAC inhibitors. Our experimental approaches range from biochemistry, to molecular biology, to post-genomics (proteomics and nanotechnology), and include the functional validation of compounds and demonstrated mechanisms in animal model systems and tumour samples. Final objective is the design of differentiation treatment protocols for leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug discovery
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins proteomics
- engineering and technology nanotechnology
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology leukemia
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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Coordinator
20141 MILANO
Italy
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