- Fragment-Based Drug Design Facilitated by Protein-Templated Click Chemistry: Fragment Linking and Optimization of Inhibitors of the Aspartic Protease Endothiapepsin
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There is an urgent need for the development of efficient methodologies that accelerate drug discovery. We demonstrate that the strategic combination of fragment linking/optimization and protein-templated click chemistry is an efficient and powerful method that accelerates the hit-identification process for the aspartic protease endothiapepsin. The best binder, which inhibits endothiapepsin with an IC50value of 43 μm, represents the first example of triazole-based inhibitors of endothiapepsin. Our strategy could find application on a whole range of drug targets.
- Mondal, Milon,Unver, M. Yagiz,Pal, Asish,Bakker, Matthijs,Berrier, Stephan P.,Hirsch, Anna K. H.
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p. 14826 - 14830
(2016/10/11)
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- Rapid discovery of highly potent and selective inhibitors of histone deacetylase 8 using click chemistry to generate candidate libraries
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To find HDAC8-selective inhibitors, we designed a library of HDAC inhibitor candidates, each containing a zinc-binding group that coordinates with the active-site zinc ion, linked via a triazole moiety to a capping structure that interacts with residues on the rim of the active site. These compounds were synthesized by using click chemistry. Screening identified HDAC8-selective inhibitors including C149 (IC50 = 0.070 μM), which was more potent than PCI-34058 (6) (IC50 = 0.31 μM), a known HDAC8 inhibitor. Molecular modeling suggested that the phenylthiomethyl group of C149 binds to a unique hydrophobic pocket of HDAC8, and the orientation of the phenylthiomethyl and hydroxamate moieties (fixed by the triazole moiety) is important for the potency and selectivity. The inhibitors caused selective acetylation of cohesin in cells and exerted growth-inhibitory effects on T-cell lymphoma and neuroblastoma cells (GI50 = 3-80 μM). These findings suggest that HDAC8-selective inhibitors have potential as anticancer agents.
- Suzuki, Takayoshi,Ota, Yosuke,Ri, Masaki,Bando, Masashige,Gotoh, Aogu,Itoh, Yukihiro,Tsumoto, Hiroki,Tatum, Prima R.,Mizukami, Tamio,Nakagawa, Hidehiko,Iida, Shinsuke,Ueda, Ryuzo,Shirahige, Katsuhiko,Miyata, Naoki
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p. 9562 - 9575
(2013/01/16)
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