Editorial: Discovery of small molecule lead compounds: A driving force to unravel new anticancer targets and mechanisms

Yan Zhang; Leilei Fu; Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan

doi:10.3389/fonc.2023.1117660

Editorial: Discovery of small molecule lead compounds: A driving force to unravel new anticancer targets and mechanisms

Front Oncol. 2023 Feb 22:13:1117660. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1117660. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yan Zhang¹, Leilei Fu², Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Computational Chemistry-Based Natural Antitumor Drug Research & Development, Liaoning Province, School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China.
² School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
³ Department of Botany, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan.

No abstract available

Keywords: anticancer natural products; cancer case analysis; leading compound; potential cancer targets; target recognition technology.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning [2021-MS-214] and the Scientific Research Fund Project of Education Department of Liaoning Province [LJKZ0917].