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Table 1 Inhibitors of STAT3 synthesis, their targets, mode of inhibition and cellular effects, adapted from Yue and Turkson 2009)

From: Dietary compounds as potent inhibitors of the signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) 3 regulatory network

Inhibitor

Target site

Mode of inhibition of STAT3 function

Cellular effects

References

PY*LKTK

domain SH2

Dimerization

↓ Malignant cell growth and transformation

Turkson et al. (2001)

Y*LPQTV

domain SH2

Dimerization

ND

Ren et al. (2003)

SS610

domain SH2

Dimerization

↓ Malignant cell growth and transformation

Turkson et al. (2004)

↑ Apoptosis

S3I-M2001

domain SH2

Dimerization

↓ Malignant cell growth

Siddiquee et al. (2007)

↑ Apoptosis, ↓ Migration

STA-21

domain SH2

Dimerization

↑ Apoptosis

Song et al. (2005)

S3I-201

domain SH2

Dimerization

↓ Cell growth

Siddiquee et al. (2007)

↑ Apoptosis

Stattic

domain SH2

Phosphorylation

↑ Apoptosis

Schust et al. (2006)

Catechol-containing compounds

domain DBD

DNA-binding

ND

Hao et al. (2008)

IS3 295

domain DBD

DNA-binding

↓ Cell growth

Turkson et al. (2005)

↑ Apoptosis

CPA-1, CPA-7

domain DBD

DNA-binding

↓ Cell growth

Turkson et al. (2004)

↑ Apoptosis

Galiellalactone

domain DBD

DNA-binding

↓ Cell growth

Weidler et al. (2000)

↑ Apoptosis

Peptide aptamers

domain DBD

DNA-binding

↓ Cell growth

Nagel-Wolfrum et al. (2004)

↑ Apoptosis

Decoy ODN

domain DBD

Compete against endogenous DNA cis element

↓ Cell growth

Leong et al. (2003)

↑ Apoptosis

G-quartet ODN

domain SH2

Phosphorylation

↓ Cell growth

Jing et al. (2006)

↑ Apoptosis

Peptides

ND

Transcriptional activity

↓ Cell growth

Timofeeva et al. (2007)

↑ Apoptosis

JSI-124 & derivatives

JAK?

Phosphorylation

↓ Cell growth

Blaskovich et al. (2003)

↑ Apoptosis, ↓ invasiveness

Withacnistin

JAK?

Phosphorylation

↓ Proliferation, ↑ apoptosis

Sun et al. (2005)

  1. ↑ increase, ↓ decrease