Recent clinical trials and optical control as a potential strategy to develop microtubule-targeting drugs in colorectal cancer management

Figure 2 The chemical structures of paclitaxel (top right) with an azobenzene derivative (top left) and docetaxel with a styrylbenzothiazole derivative (bottom). The photo-switchable C=C or N=N double-bond is highlighted (dotted circle). Each group is conjugated to the left arm of taxanes (arrows), resulting AzTax3MP[58] and SBTax[60], respectively.