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Gatorbulin-1, a distinct cyclodepsipeptide chemotype, targets a seventh tubulin pharmacological site
Matthew, Susan,Chen, Qi-Yin,Ratnayake, Ranjala,Fermaintt, Charles S.,Lucena-Agell, Daniel,Bonato, Francesca,Prota, Andrea E.,Lim, Seok Ting,Wang, Xiaomeng,Díaz, J. Fernando,Risinger, April L.,Paul, Valerie J.,Oliva, Maria ángela,Luesch, Hendrik
, (2021/03/03)
Tubulin-targeted chemotherapy has proven to be a successful and wide spectrum strategy against solid and liquid malignancies. Therefore, new ways to modulate this essential protein could lead to new antitumoral pharmacological approaches. Currently known tubulin agents bind to six distinct sites at α/β-tubulin either promoting microtubule stabilization or depolymerization. We have discovered a seventh binding site at the tubulin intradimer interface where a novel microtubule-destabilizing cyclodepsipeptide, termed gatorbulin-1 (GB1), binds. GB1 has a unique chemotype produced by a marine cyanobacterium. We have elucidated this dual, chemical and mechanistic, novelty through multidimensional characterization, starting with bioactivity-guided natural product isolation and multinuclei NMR-based structure determination, revealing the modified pentapeptide with a functionally critical hydroxamate group; and validation by total synthesis. We have investigated the pharmacology using isogenic cancer cell screening, cellular profiling, and complementary phenotypic assays, and unveiled the underlying molecular mechanism by in vitro biochemical studies and high-resolution structural determination of the α/β-tubulin?GB1 complex.
Synthetic studies on thiostrepton family of peptide antibiotics: Synthesis of the cyclic core portion containing the dehydropiperidine, dihydroquinoline, L-valine, and masked dehydroalanine segments
Mori, Tomonori,Tohmiya, Hiraku,Satouchi, Yukiko,Higashibayashi, Shuhei,Hashimoto, Kimiko,Nakata, Masaya
, p. 6423 - 6427 (2007/10/03)
The cyclic core portion containing the dehydropiperidine, dihydroquinoline, L-valine, and masked dehydroalanine (i.e., β-phenylselenoalanine) segments of the thiostrepton family of peptide antibiotics was synthesized via the consecutive coupling of these four segments followed by cyclization at the amide bond between the dehydropiperidine and masked dehydroalanine segments.
