Associate Professor Gordon William Rewcastle
PhD
Honorary Academic
Associate Professor
Gordon
William
Rewcastle
Associate Professor Gordon William Rewcastle
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/g-rewcastle
Honorary Academic
The University of Auckland: Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Biography
Gordon Rewcastle obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry from The University of Auckland, and after post-doctoral work in the US he joined the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre (ACSRC) as a medicinal chemist in 1980. Since then he has worked on a number of projects involving the design and synthesis of novel anticancer and antibacterial agents. He is an Associate Investigator in the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery.
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Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
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- Trevarton, A. J., Zhou, Y., Yang, D., Rewcastle, G. W., Flanagan, J. U., Braithwaite, A., ... Lasham, A. (2019). Orthogonal assays for the identification of inhibitors of the single-stranded nucleic acid binding protein YB-1. ACTA PHARMACEUTICA SINICA B, 9 (5), 997-1007. 10.1016/j.apsb.2018.12.011
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Annette Lasham, Alex Trevarton, Jack Flanagan, Cristin Print - Wang, J., Gong, G. Q., Zhou, Y., Lee, W.-J., Buchanan, C. M., Denny, W. A., ... Flanagan, J. U. (2018). High-throughput screening campaigns against a PI3Kα isoform bearing the H1047R mutation identified potential inhibitors with novel scaffolds. Acta pharmacologica Sinica, 39 (11), 1816-1822. 10.1038/s41401-018-0057-z
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Woo Lee, Christina Buchanan, Jack Flanagan, James Dickson, Bill Denny - Gamage, S. A., Giddens, A. C., Tsang, K. Y., Flanagan, J. U., Kendall, J. D., Lee, W.-J., ... Shepherd, P. R. (2017). Synthesis and biological evaluation of sulfonamide analogues of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitor ZSTK474. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 25 (20), 5859-5874. 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.09.025
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/41240
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Swarna Gamage, Anna Giddens, Bill Denny, Jack Flanagan, Christina Buchanan, Stephen Jamieson, Woo Lee - Rewcastle, G. W., Kolekar, S., Buchanan, C. M., Gamage, S. A., Giddens, A. C., Tsang, K. Y., ... Smith, G. C. (2017). Biological characterization of SN32976, a selective inhibitor of PI3K and mTOR with preferential activity to PI3Kα, in comparison to established pan PI3K inhibitors. Oncotarget, 8 (29), 47725-47740. 10.18632/oncotarget.17730
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Shepherd, Christina Buchanan, Swarna Gamage, Bill Denny, Stephen Jamieson, Anna Giddens, Woo Lee - Gong, G. Q., Kendall, J. D., Dickson, J. M., Rewcastle, G. W., Buchanan, C. M., Denny, W. A., ... Flanagan, J. U. (2017). Combining properties of different classes of PI3Kα inhibitors to understand the molecular features that confer selectivity. Biochemical Journal, 474 (13), 2261-2276. 10.1042/BCJ20161098
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/43252
Other University of Auckland co-authors: James Dickson, Christina Buchanan, Bill Denny, Peter Shepherd, Jack Flanagan - Kendall, J., Giddens, A., Tsang, K., Marshall, E., Lill, C., Lee, W.-J., ... Yu, S. (2017). Novel pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridines with improved aqueous solubility as p110α-selective PI3 kinase inhibitors. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 27 (2), 187-190. 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.11.078
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Shepherd, Bill Denny, Christina Buchanan, Stephen Jamieson, Anna Giddens, Woo Lee - Marshall, A. J., Lill, C. L., Chao, M., Kolekar, S. V., Lee, W.-J., Marshall, E. S., ... Flanagan, J. U. (2015). Exploring the isoform selectivity of TGX-221 related pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidinone-based Class IA PI 3-kinase inhibitors: synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modelling. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 23 (13), 3796-3808. 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.03.073
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Jack Flanagan, Peter Shepherd, Bill Denny, Sharada Kolekar, Woo Lee - Denny, W. A., & Rewcastle, G. W. (2013). Inhibitors of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway. In S. Neidle (Ed.) Cancer Drug Design and Discovery (pp. 449-478). London, UK: Elsevier Ltd. 10.1016/B978-0-12-396521-9.00015-2
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Bill Denny
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- +64 9 923 6147
- +64.9.923.6147
- g.rewcastle@auckland.ac.nz
- grew002@aucklanduni.ac.nz
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M&HS BUILDING 504 - Bldg 504
Level 1, Room 126
85 PARK RD
GRAFTON
AUCKLAND 1023
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