“…The most important Hsp90 inhibitors are geldanamycin ( Whitesell et al ., 1994 ), its less toxic analog, 17‐allylamino‐17‐demethoxy‐geldanamycin (17AAG) ( Schulte & Neckers, 1998 ) as well as radicicol, and its more stable oxime derivatives ( Soga et al ., 1998 ; Agatsuma et al ., 2002 ; Ikuina et al ., 2003 ), which have a higher affinity for Hsp90 than geldanamycin ( Roe et al ., 1999 ). Recently, new geldanamycin analogs ( Hargreaves et al ., 2003 ) as well as a third class of tumor‐specific Hsp90 inhibitors, the purine‐scaffold inhibitors, were developed ( Chiosis et al ., 2002 ; Vilenchik et al ., 2004 ), and there are ongoing efforts to synthesize even more Hsp90‐interacting drug candidates ( Banerji et al ., 2003 ; Maloney et al ., 2003 ; Workman, 2004 ; Dymock et al ., 2005 ; Kreusch et al ., 2005 ) (Table 1). Hsp90 inhibition was achieved in an unusual way, using the antitumor agent histone deacetylase inhibitors.…”