“…Similar effects might be afforded by agents that target hedgehog ligand processing and interaction with receptors. Robotnikinin, a drug that blocks the interaction of Shh with receptors [90], is of this class. Further down the pathway, the knowledge that Gli activity may be an important factor in tumor biology, independent of hedgehog signaling, has also driven discovery efforts to identify drugs that can block this activity, and the Gli antagonists (GANTs; -58 and -61) [91], and, more recently, the HPI class of drugs [92] that interfere with Gli trafficking and transcription, may have clinical applicability.…”