Natural products as leads for anticancer drug discovery: discovery of new chemotypes of microtubule stabilizers through reengineering of the epothilone scaffold.

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Published in Chimia (Aarau) on January 01, 2010

Authors

Karl-Heinz Altmann1, Frédéric Cachoux, Fabian Feyen, Jürg Gertsch, Christian N Kuzniewski, Markus Wartmann

Author Affiliations

1: "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Hönggerberg, HCI H 405, CH-8093 Zürich. karl-heinz.altmann@pharma.ethz.ch

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