DNA Polymerase and Topoisomerase II Inhibitors from Psoralea corylifolia

…, SH Woo, JM Cassady, RM Snapka - Journal of natural …, 1998 - ACS Publications
An ethanol extract of Psoralea corylifolia caused strong DNA polymerase inhibition in a
whole cell bioassay specific for inhibitors of DNA replication enzymes. Bioassay-directed …

XK469, a selective topoisomerase IIβ poison

…, KK Chan, L Chohan, RM Snapka - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
XK469 (NSC 697887) is a synthetic quinoxaline phenoxypropionic acid derivative that possesses
unusual solid tumor selectivity and activity against multidrug-resistant cancer cells. We …

Inhibition of topoisomerase II by liriodenine

…, NJ Sun, JM Cassady, RM Snapka - Biochemical …, 1997 - Elsevier
… Permana PA, Ferrer CA and Snapka RM, Inverse relationship … Shin CG, Strayer JM, Wani
MA and Snapka RM, Rapid evaluation … Snapka RM and Yamasaki EF, Topoisomerase …

[HTML][HTML] Topoisomerase II poisoning by ICRF-193

…, LL Shen, KK Chan, R Ganapathi, RM Snapka - Journal of Biological …, 2001 - ASBMB
Antineoplastic bis(dioxopiperazine)s, such as meso-2,3-bis(2,6-dioxopiperazin-4-yl)butane (ICRF-193),
are widely believed to be only catalytic inhibitors of topoisomerase II. However, …

Topoisomerase II inhibition by aporphine alkaloids

SH Woo, NJ Sun, JM Cassady, RM Snapka - Biochemical Pharmacology, 1999 - Elsevier
The aporphine alkaloids (+)-dicentrine and (+)-bulbocapnine are non-planar molecules lacking
features normally associated with DNA binding by intercalation or minor groove binding. …

Chloroquinoxaline sulfonamide (NSC 339004) is a topoisomerase IIα/β poison

H Gao, EF Yamasaki, KK Chan, LL Shen, RM Snapka - Cancer research, 2000 - AACR
Chloroquinoxaline sulfonamide (chlorosulfaquinoxaline, CQS, NSC 339004)is active
against murine and human solid tumors. On the basis of its structural similarity to the …

Nuclear targets of photodynamic tridentate ruthenium complexes

…, RP Thummel, Y Liu, C Turro, RM Snapka - Dalton …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Octahedral ruthenium complexes, capable of photodynamic singlet oxygen production at
near 100% efficiency, were shown to cause light-dependent covalent crosslinking of p53 and …

DNA sequence specificity for topoisomerase II poisoning by the quinoxaline anticancer drugs XK469 and CQS

…, EF Yamasaki, KK Chan, LL Shen, RM Snapka - Molecular …, 2003 - ASPET
The two known antineoplastic quinoxaline topoisomerase II poisons, XK469 (NSC 697887)
and CQS (chloroquinoxaline sulfonamide, NSC 339004), were compared for DNA cleavage …

Loss of unstably amplified dihydrofolate reductase genes from mouse cells is greatly accelerated by hydroxyurea.

RM Snapka, A Varshavsky - Proceedings of the National …, 1983 - National Acad Sciences
Previous work has shown that mammalian cells that carry unstably amplified genes for
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) gradually lose the amplified DHFR genes when grown in the …

Quinobenoxazines: a class of novel antitumor quinolones and potent mammalian DNA topoisomerase II catalytic inhibitors

PA Permana, RM Snapka, LL Shen, DTW Chu… - Biochemistry, 1994 - ACS Publications
… of SV40 DNA replication intermediates were performed as described (Snapka et al., … ,
the A- and B-family dimer ladders overlap at the highest catenation levels (Snapka et al., …