Prof. Patrick M. Woster
Medical University of South Carolina
Professor, Chemistry
United States
My co-authors include
Professor Lyn-Marie Birkholtz
Dr Emiliano Grillo
Ramkumar Iyer
My Publications
KDM4B inhibition reduces inflammatory cytokines, and thus inflammation and bone destruc...
Epigenetics
August 2018
Cyclic peptide inhibitors of lysine-specific demethylase 1 with improved potency identi...
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
March 2018
Interrogating alkyl and arylalkylpolyamino (bis)urea and (bis)thiourea isosteres as pot...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
August 2015
Structure–activity study for (bis)ureidopropyl- and (bis)thioureidopropyldiamine LSD1 i...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
April 2015
Transcriptional Activity of the Islet β Cell Factor Pdx1 Is Augmented by Lysine Methyla...
Journal of Biological Chemistry
February 2015
Discovery of a new class of histone deacetylase inhibitors with a novel zinc binding group
MedChemComm
January 2015
Epigenetics: Novel Therapeutics Targeting Epigenetics
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
December 2014
Increased Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric cancer risk in the Andean region of Co...
Oncogene
September 2014
P1 and P1′ para-fluoro phenyl groups show enhanced binding and favorable predicted phar...
Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
February 2014
3,5-Diamino-1,2,4-triazoles as a novel scaffold for potent, reversible LSD1 (KDM1A) inh...
MedChemComm
January 2014
Design of small molecule epigenetic modulators
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
January 2014
Ligand modifications to reduce the relative resistance of multi-drug resistant HIV-1 pr...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
December 2013
Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Cyclic Peptide Inhibitors of Lysine-Specific Demethyl...
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
November 2013
Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Overcomes Drug Resistance through a miRNA-Dependent Mech...
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
August 2013
Elevated ornithine decarboxylase activity promotes skin tumorigenesis by stimulating th...
Amino Acids
July 2013
99 Polyamines Mediate Helicobacter priori-Induced Gastric Carcinogenesis in Gerbils
Gastroenterology
May 2013
The re-expression of the epigenetically silenced e-cadherin gene by a polyamine analogu...
Amino Acids
March 2013
Loss of LSD1 (lysine-specific demethylase 1) suppresses growth and alters gene expressi...
Biochemical Journal
January 2013
Polyamines and cancer: implications for chemotherapy and chemoprevention
Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine
January 2013
Low Molecular Weight Amidoximes that Act as Potent Inhibitors of Lysine-Specific Demeth...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
September 2012
Polyamine Drug Discovery. Edited by Patrick Woster and Robert A. Casero, Jr.
June 2012
Crystal structures of multidrug-resistant HIV-1 protease in complex with two potent ant...
May 2012
Inhibition of the LSD1 (KDM1A) demethylase reactivates the all-trans-retinoic acid diff...
news nature com
March 2012
Novel Pt(II) and Pd(II) complexes with polyamine analogues: Synthesis and vibrational a...
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
March 2012
Polyamine-based small molecule epigenetic modulators
MedChemComm
January 2012
Alternative Spermidine Biosynthetic Route Is Critical for Growth ofCampylobacter jejuni...
Journal of Biological Chemistry
October 2011
Discovery of Novel Alkylated (bis)Urea and (bis)Thiourea Polyamine Analogues with Poten...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
October 2011
Polyamine catabolism contributes to enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis-induced colon ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
August 2011
Knockdown of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 1 causes loss of uptake regulation leadin...
Amino Acids
August 2011
Polyamine analogs modulate gene expression by inhibiting lysine-specific demethylase 1 ...
Amino Acids
July 2011
Polyamine Drug Discovery
January 2011
Chapter 1. Polyamine Drug Discovery: Synthetic Approaches to Therapeutic Modulators of ...
January 2011
Chapter 10. The Design and Development of Polyamine-Based Analogs with Epigenetic Targets
January 2011
Chapter 5. Symmetrical- and Unsymmetrical Terminally Alkylated Polyamines
January 2011
Use of Polyamine Derivatives as Selective Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
January 2011
Spermine oxidase (SMO) activity in breast tumor tissues and biochemical analysis of the...
BMC Cancer
October 2010
Antiprotozoal/Antiparasitic Agents
September 2010
(Bis)urea and (Bis)thiourea Inhibitors of Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 as Epigenetic M...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
July 2010
Mechanism-Based Inhibitors of the Aspartyl Protease Plasmepsin II as Potential Antimala...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
May 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Novel Alkylpolyamine Analogues that Possess Both Antitrypanosomal ...
ChemInform
May 2010
Suppression of Exogenous Gene Expression by Spermidine/SpermineN1-Acetyltransferase 1 (...
Journal of Biological Chemistry
March 2010
Epigenetic Targets and Cancer Drug Discovery
January 2010
Foreword: American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry. Celebrating 100 Ye...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
December 2009
Novel Oligoamine Analogues Inhibit Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 and Induce Reexpressio...
Clinical Cancer Research
November 2009
Design of polyamine-based therapeutic agents: new targets and new directions
Essays in Biochemistry
October 2009
Polyamine analogues targeting epigenetic gene regulation
Essays in Biochemistry
October 2009
A Small Molecule Polyamine Oxidase Inhibitor Blocks Androgen-Induced Oxidative Stress a...
Cancer Research
September 2009
The role of the polyamine catabolic enzymes SSAT and SMO in the synergistic effects of ...
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
August 2009
Spermine analogue-regulated expression of spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase and ...
Biochemical Journal
August 2009
Recent Advances in the Development of Polyamine Analogues as Antitumor Agents§
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
August 2009
A novel histone deacetylase inhibitor prevents IL-1β induced metabolic dysfunction in p...
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
August 2009
A novel histone deacetylase inhibitor prevents IL-1β induced metabolic dysfunction in ...
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
August 2009
Metabolism of an Alkyl Polyamine Analog by a Polyamine Oxidase from the Microsporidian ...
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
February 2009
Elevated Ornithine Decarboxylase Levels Activate Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated-DNA Dama...
Cancer Research
April 2008
Polyaminohydroxamic Acids and Polyaminobenzamides as Isoform Selective Histone Deacetyl...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
April 2008
Studies of the mechanism by which increased spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase ac...
Carcinogenesis
September 2007
Inhibition of lysine-specific demethylase 1 by polyamine analogues results in reexpress...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
April 2007
Polyamine-based analogues as biochemical probes and potential therapeutics
Biochemical Society Transactions
April 2007
Spermine and spermidine mediate protection against oxidative damage caused by hydrogen ...
Amino Acids
March 2007
Antiprotozoal Agents (African Trypanosomiasis, Chagas Disease, and Leishmaniasis)
January 2007
Novel alkylpolyaminoguanidines and alkylpolyaminobiguanides with potent antitrypanosoma...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
June 2006
Effect of pro-inflammatory cytokines on the toxicity of the arylhydroxylamine metabolit...
Toxicology
February 2006
Spermine Oxidase SMO(PAOh1), NotN1-Acetylpolyamine Oxidase PAO, Is the Primary Source o...
Journal of Biological Chemistry
October 2005
Alkyl-Substituted Polyaminohydroxamic Acids: A Novel Class of Targeted Histone Deacety...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
October 2005
Role of p53/p21Waf1/Cip1 in the regulation of polyamine analogue-induced growth inhibit...
Cancer Biology & Therapy
September 2005
Reactive oxygen species generation and its role in the differential cytotoxicity of the...
Biochemical Pharmacology
July 2005
A Charge-Deficient Analogue of Spermine with Chelating Properties
Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry
May 2005
Properties of recombinant human N1-acetylpolyamine oxidase (hPAO): potential role in de...
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
March 2005
Induction of human spermine oxidase SMO(PAOh1) is regulated at the levels of new mRNA s...
Biochemical Journal
March 2005
Bergamottin contribution to the grapefruit juice?felodipine interaction and disposition...
December 2004
Fundamentals of Medicinal Chemistry By Gareth Thomas. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., West S...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
July 2004
Induction of the PAOh1/SMO polyamine oxidase by polyamine analogues in human lung carci...
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
November 2003
Properties of purified recombinant human polyamine oxidase, PAOh1/SMO
May 2003
The role of polyamine catabolism in anti-tumour drug response
Biochemical Society Transactions
April 2003
The Activator-Binding Site of Onchocerca volvulus S-Adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase, a...
January 2003
Chapter 21. New therapies for malaria
January 2003
Induction of apoptosis in human leukaemic cells by IPENSpm, a novel polyamine analogue ...
Biochemical Journal
October 2002
Cloning and characterization of the mouse polyamine-modulatedfactor-1 (mPMF-1) gene: an...
October 2001
Cloning and characterization of the mouse polyamine-modulatedfactor-1 (mPMF-1) gene: an...
Biochemical Journal
October 2001
Novel Alkylpolyamine Analogues that Possess Both Antitrypanosomal and Antimicrosporidia...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
June 2001
Terminally Alkylated Polyamine Analogues as Chemotherapeutic Agents
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
January 2001
A Role for Bioactivation and Covalent Binding within Epidermal Keratinocytes in Sulfona...
June 2000
Molecular basis for the polyamine-OmpF porin interactions: inhibitor and mutant studies...
Journal of Molecular Biology
April 2000
Erratum: Nairn LM, Lindsay GS, Woster PM, and Wallace HM (2000): Cytotoxicity of novel ...
Journal of Cellular Physiology
April 2000
Cytotoxicity of novel unsymmetrically substituted inhibitors of polyamine biosynthesis ...
Journal of Cellular Physiology
February 2000
1-(N-Alkylamino)-11-(N-ethylamino)-4,8-diazaundecanes: Simple Synthetic Polyamine Anal...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
April 1999
6 ́,7 ́-Dihydroxybergamottin in grapefruit juice and Seville orange juice: Effects on c...
March 1999
Clinical aspects of cell death in breast cancer: the polyamine pathway as a new target ...
Endocrine Related Cancer
March 1999
82 Comparison of poryamine analogue toxicity in two cell lines (HL-60 & MCF-7)
Biochemical Society Transactions
November 1998
The natural polyamine spermine functions directly as a free radical scavenger
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
September 1998
Comparison of the In Vitro Cytotoxicity of Hydroxylamine Metabolites of Sulfamethoxazol...
Biochemical Pharmacology
March 1998
Structural Specificity of Polyamines and Polyamine Analogues in the Protection of DNA f...
March 1998
Synthesis of protected allylic amines via palladium(0)-catalyzed amination of allylic a...
Tetrahedron Letters
March 1998
The role of polyamine catabolism in polyamine analogue-induced programmed cell death
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
October 1997
Synthesis and biological evaluation of 6′,7′-dihydroxybergamottin (6,7-DHB), a naturall...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
October 1997
Structural comparison of alkylpolyamine analogues with potent in vitro antitumor or ant...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
November 1996
Synthesis and evaluation of a polyamine phosphinate and phosphonamidate as transition-s...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
June 1996
Photoaffinity Labeling of a Cell Surface Polyamine Binding Protein
Journal of Biological Chemistry
December 1995
S-(5'-Deoxy-5'-adenosyl)-1-aminoxy-4-(methylsulfonio)-2-cyclopentene (AdoMao): An Irrev...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
May 1995
Irreversible inhibition of human S -adenosylmethionine decarboxylase by the pure diast...
Biochemical Pharmacology
April 1995
Growth and biochemical effects of unsymmetrically substituted polyamine analogues in hu...
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
January 1995
Dapsone-Induced Hematologic Toxicity: Comparison of the Methemoglobin-Forming Ability o...
December 1994
α-cyano-substituted analogoues of decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine as enzyme activat...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
December 1993
Preparation of the pure diastereomeric forms of S- (5′-deoxy-5′-adenosyl)-1-ammonio-4-m...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
November 1993
Synthesis and evaluation of unsymmetrically substituted polyamine analogs as modulators...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
October 1993
Restricted rotation analogs of S-adenosylmethionine: synthesis, evaluation as inhibitor...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
February 1993
S-(5'-Deoxy-5'-adenosyl)-1-ammonio-4-(methylsulfonio)-2-cyclopentene: a potent, enzyme-...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
August 1992
Restricted rotation analogs of decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine as inhibitors of pol...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
January 1991
Effect of S-adenosyl-1,12-diamino-3-thio-9-azadodecane, a multisubstrate adduct inhibit...
Biochemistry
October 1989
Synthesis and biological evaluation of S-adenosyl-1,12-diamino-3-thio-9-azadodecane, a ...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
June 1989
Synthesis and biological evaluation of cyclic analogs of l-carnitine as potential agent...
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
May 1986
Polyamine Structure and Synthetic Analogs