title: A search for inhibitors of S100B, a member of the S100 family of calcium-binding proteins.
abstract: Typically, malignant melanoma has wild-type p53, and yet this cancer proliferates. S100B, which binds p53 and is up-regulated in melanoma, down-regulates wild-type p53 tumor suppressor function. Inhibitors of the S100B-p53 interaction were identified using computer aided drug design (CADD) combined with NMR methodologies and represent potentially new chemotherapeutics for melanoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.forename: Alexander D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: MacKerell
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D025461:Feedback, Physiological; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D064568:S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit; D009418:S100 Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D064568:S100 Calcium Binding Protein beta Subunit; D009418:S100 Proteins; C579160:S100B protein, human; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53; D002118:Calcium