99033-95-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of substrate-competitive inhibitors of C-terminal Binding Protein (CtBP)
Korwar, Sudha,Morris, Benjamin L.,Parikh, Hardik I.,Coover, Robert A.,Doughty, Tyler W.,Love, Ian M.,Hilbert, Brendan J.,Royer, William E.,Kellogg, Glen E.,Grossman, Steven R.,Ellis, Keith C.
, p. 2707 - 2715 (2016/06/08)
C-terminal Binding Protein (CtBP) is a transcriptional co-regulator that downregulates the expression of many tumor-suppressor genes. Utilizing a crystal structure of CtBP with its substrate 4-methylthio-2-oxobutyric acid (MTOB) and NAD+ as a guide, we have designed, synthesized, and tested a series of small molecule inhibitors of CtBP. From our first round of compounds, we identified 2-(hydroxyimino)-3-phenylpropanoic acid as a potent CtBP inhibitor (IC50 = 0.24 μM). A structure-activity relationship study of this compound further identified the 4-chloro- (IC50 = 0.18 μM) and 3-chloro- (IC50 = 0.17 μM) analogues as additional potent CtBP inhibitors. Evaluation of the hydroxyimine analogues in a short-term cell growth/viability assay showed that the 4-chloro- and 3-chloro-analogues are 2-fold and 4-fold more potent, respectively, than the MTOB control. A functional cellular assay using a CtBP-specific transcriptional readout revealed that the 4-chloro- and 3-chloro-hydroxyimine analogues were able to block CtBP transcriptional repression activity. This data suggests that substrate-competitive inhibition of CtBP dehydrogenase activity is a potential mechanism to reactivate tumor-suppressor gene expression as a therapeutic strategy for cancer.
Epigenetic profiling of the antitumor natural product psammaplin A and its analogues
Garcia, Jose,Franci, Gianluigi,Pereira, Raquel,Benedetti, Rosaria,Nebbioso, Angela,Rodriguez-Barrios, Fatima,Gronemeyer, Hinrich,Altucci, Lucia,Lera, Angel R. De
, p. 3637 - 3649 (2011/08/03)
A collection of analogues of the dimeric natural product psammaplin A that differ in the substitution on the (halo)tyrosine aryl ring, the oxime and the diamine connection has been synthesized. The effects on cell cycle, induction of differentiation and apoptosis of the natural-product inspired series were measured on the human leukaemia U937 cell line. Epigenetic profiling included induction of p21WAF1, effects on global H3 histone and tubulin acetylation levels as well as in vitro enzymatic assays using HDAC1, DNMT1, DNMT3A, SIRT1 and a peptide domain with p300/CBP HAT activity. Whereas the derivatives of psammaplin A with modifications in the length of the connecting chain, the oxime bond and the disulfide unit showed lower potency, the analogues with changes on the bromotyrosine ring exhibited activities comparable to those of the parent compound in the inhibition of HDAC1 and in the induction of apoptosis. The lack of HDAC1 activity of analogues modified on the disulfide bond suggests that its cleavage must occur in cells to produce the monomeric Zn2+-chelating thiol. This assumption is consistent with the molecular modelling of the complex of psammaplin A thiol with h-HDAC8. Only a weak inhibition of DNMT1, DNMT3A and residual activities with SIRT1 and a p300/CBP HAT peptide were measured for these compounds.
A family of mycothiol analogues
Knapp, Spencer,Amorelli, Benjamin,Darout, Etzer,Ventocilla, Christian C.,Goldman, Lawrence M.,Huhn, Richard A.,Minnihan, Ellen C.
, p. 103 - 130 (2007/10/03)
A thioglycoside aminotriol scaffold has been elaborated by acylation, reductive alkylation, sulfonation, phosphorylation, and other procedures to produce a library of 40 functionalized thioglycosides that superficially resemble the enzyme-binding portions
