title: Metal-based antitumour drugs in the post-genomic era: what comes next?
abstract: In our Dalton Transactions Perspective article entitled, 'Metal-based antitumour drugs in the post genomic era', (Dalton Trans., 2006, 1929-1933) we discussed metal-based drugs in light of past decades of research. We concluded that the post-genomic era would dictate a change in the direction of the field with knowledge of the genome increasingly allowing protein targets to be identified and not simply assuming that DNA is the only relevant target of metal-based drugs. Since our article was published new insights into the mode of action of metal-based drugs have emerged making some older findings increasingly relevant to current drug design. In this article we discuss these developments in terms of what we believe should be the future direction for the field.
authors: Callerio Foundation Onlus, Via A. Fleming 22-31, 34127, Trieste, Italy.
authors: Gianni
authors: G
authors: Sava
authors: Alberta
authors: A
authors: Bergamo
authors: Paul J
authors: PJ
authors: Dyson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D008670:Metals