Cited by 1,404Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors ResearchEpigenetics and DNA MethylationGenomics and Chromatin Dynamics

New and emerging HDAC inhibitors for cancer treatment

Open access
West, Alison C., Johnstone, Ricky W.·2014·Journal of Clinical Investigation

Abstract

Epigenetic enzymes are often dysregulated in human tumors through mutation, altered expression, or inappropriate recruitment to certain loci. The identification of these enzymes and their partner proteins has driven the rapid development of small-molecule inhibitors that target the cancer epigenome. Herein, we discuss the influence of aberrantly regulated histone deacetylases (HDACs) in tumorigenesis. We examine HDAC inhibitors (HDACis) targeting class I, II, and IV HDACs that are currently under development for use as anticancer agents following the FDA approval of two HDACis, vorinostat and romidepsin.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1172/jci69738

Cites

133 of 133 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Currently FDA-approved HDAC inhibitors non-specifically target at least several of the eleven structurally similar but functionally different HDAC isozymes, hampering their broad clinical usage.

    “Yet, the currently FDA-approved HDAC inhibitors non-specifically target at least several of the eleven structurally similar but functionally different HDAC isozymes, which hampers their broad usage in clinical settings.”

    From Characterization of Histone Deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) Selective Inhibition Reveals Specific Active Site Structural and Functional Determinants (2018) · cites this paper as [13]

    The “HDACis as anticancer agents” section identifies two FDA-approved inhibitors and 11 class I, II and IV HDACs. But it says inhibitor specificity and the need for selective inhibition remain debated, and reports that commonly used inhibitors are more specific than previously thought. “HDACis in the clinic” describes limited efficacy beyond hematological cancers, but does not establish that nonspecific targeting causes that limitation (pages unavailable in our copy). (LLM, conf=0.86)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Part of this paper’s reference list could not be split into single entries.

1 retracted

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Glozak MA, Seto E. Histone deacetylases and can- cer. Oncogene. 2007;26(37):5420-5432.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
West, A. C., & Johnstone, R. W.
Affiliations
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (AU)
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
Corresponding author
Johnstone, Ricky W.
Venue
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Published
2014-01-02
Volume
124
Issue
1
Pages
30-39
ISSN
0021-9738 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2115593774
Cited by
1,404
References
133
Citations by year
2026: 71 · 2025: 85 · 2024: 70 · 2023: 83 · 2022: 101 · 2021: 120 · 2020: 110 · 2019: 119 · 2018: 146 · 2017: 166 · 2016: 166 · 2015: 102 · 2014: 63
FWCI
15.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Medical Research Council
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Keywords
histone deacetylase inhibitors, carcinogenesis, vorinostat, romidepsin, small molecule anticancer agents
MeSH terms
Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Clinical Trials as Topic, Histone Deacetylases, Humans, Neoplasms, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, Molecular Targeted Therapy

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review