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Decker RL, Schray D, Pfeffer HI, Grond S, Wagner JP. Conformations and Rearrangements of Collinolactone - Experiments and Theory on a Dynamic Cyclodecatriene. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202303435. [PMID: 38051282 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202303435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Collinolactone A is a microbial specialized metabolite with a unique 6-10-7 tricyclic bislactone skeleton which was isolated from Streptomyces bacteria. The unusual cyclodecatriene motif features dynamic interconversions of two rotamers. Given the biological profiling of collinolactone A as neuroprotective agent, semisynthetic modifications represent an invaluable strategy to enhance its efficacy. Since understanding conformations and reactions of bioactive substances is crucial for rational structure-based design and synthesis of derivatives, we conducted computational studies on conformational behavior as well as experiments on thermal and acid induced rearrangements of the cyclodecatriene. Experimental conformer ratios of collinolactone A and its biosynthetic ketolactone precursor are well reproduced by computations at the PW6B95-D3/def2-QZVPP//r2 SCAN-3c level. Upon heating collinolactone A in anhydrous dioxane at 100 °C, three collinolactone B stereoisomers exhibiting enollactone structures form via Cope rearrangements. Our computations predict the energetic preference for a boat-like transition state in agreement with the stereochemical outcome of the main reaction pathway. Constriction of the ten-membered ring forms collinolactone C with four annulated rings and an exocyclic double bond. Computations and semisynthetic experiments demonstrate strong preference for an acid-catalyzed reaction pathway over an alternative Alder-ene route to collinolactone C with a prohibitive reaction barrier, again in line with stereochemical observations.
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- Rhena L Decker
- Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Organic and Computational Chemistry, Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Organic and Computational Chemistry, Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Organic and Computational Chemistry, Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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Prota AE, Bargsten K, Redondo-Horcajo M, Smith AB, Yang CPH, McDaid HM, Paterson I, Horwitz SB, Fernando Díaz J, Steinmetz MO. Structural Basis of Microtubule Stabilization by Discodermolide. Chembiochem 2017; 18:905-909. [PMID: 28207984 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201600696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Microtubule-stabilizing agents (MSAs) are widely used in chemotherapy. Using X-ray crystallography we elucidated the detailed binding modes of two potent MSAs, (+)-discodermolide (DDM) and the DDM-paclitaxel hybrid KS-1-199-32, in the taxane pocket of β-tubulin. The two compounds bind in a very similar hairpin conformation, as previously observed in solution. However, they stabilize the M-loop of β-tubulin differently: KS-1-199-32 induces an M-loop helical conformation that is not observed for DDM. In the context of the microtubule structure, both MSAs connect the β-tubulin helices H6 and H7 and loop S9-S10 with the M-loop. This is similar to the structural effects elicited by epothilone A, but distinct from paclitaxel. Together, our data reveal differential binding mechanisms of DDM and KS-1-199-32 on tubulin.
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- Andrea E Prota
- Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, OFLC/111, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, OFLC/111, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.,Current address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CIB-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Golding 201, Bronx, NY, 1046, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Golding 201, Bronx, NY, 1046, USA
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- University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge University, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Golding 201, Bronx, NY, 1046, USA
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- Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CIB-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, OFLC/111, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Yadava U, Yadav VK, Yadav RK. Novel anti-tubulin agents from plant and marine origins: insight from a molecular modeling and dynamics study. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra00370f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The screening of a variety of botanical species and marine organisms provided satisfactory novel tubulin binding agents (TBAs).
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- Umesh Yadava
- Department of Physics
- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University
- Gorakhpur 273009
- India
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- Institute for Computational Molecular Science
- Temple University
- Philadelphia
- USA
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Trigili C, Barasoain I, Sánchez-Murcia PA, Bargsten K, Redondo-Horcajo M, Nogales A, Gardner NM, Meyer A, Naylor GJ, Gómez-Rubio E, Gago F, Steinmetz MO, Paterson I, Prota AE, Díaz JF. Structural Determinants of the Dictyostatin Chemotype for Tubulin Binding Affinity and Antitumor Activity Against Taxane- and Epothilone-Resistant Cancer Cells. ACS OMEGA 2016; 1:1192-1204. [PMID: 30023505 PMCID: PMC6044705 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6b00317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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A combined biochemical, structural, and cell biology characterization of dictyostatin is described, which enables an improved understanding of the structural determinants responsible for the high-affinity binding of this anticancer agent to the taxane site in microtubules (MTs). The study reveals that this macrolide is highly optimized for MT binding and that only a few of the structural modifications featured in a library of synthetic analogues resulted in small gains in binding affinity. The high efficiency of the dictyostatin chemotype in overcoming various kinds of clinically relevant resistance mechanisms highlights its potential for therapeutic development for the treatment of drug-resistant tumors. A structural explanation is advanced to account for the synergy observed between dictyostatin and taxanes on the basis of their differential effects on the MT lattice. The X-ray crystal structure of a tubulin-dictyostatin complex and additional molecular modeling have allowed the rationalization of the structure-activity relationships for a set of synthetic dictyostatin analogues, including the highly active hybrid 12 with discodermolide. Altogether, the work reported here is anticipated to facilitate the improved design and synthesis of more efficacious dictyostatin analogues and hybrids with other MT-stabilizing agents.
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- Chiara Trigili
- Chemical
and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones
Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical
and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones
Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
- E-mail: (J.F.D.)
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Unidad Asociada al IQM (CSIC), Alcalá de Henares, E-28871 Madrid, Spain
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- Department
of Biology and Chemistry Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Chemical
and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones
Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto
de Estructura de la Materia, Consejo Superior
de Investigaciones Científicas IEM-CSIC, Serrano 121, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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- University
Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
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- University
Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
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- University
Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Unidad Asociada al IQM (CSIC), Alcalá de Henares, E-28871 Madrid, Spain
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Unidad Asociada al IQM (CSIC), Alcalá de Henares, E-28871 Madrid, Spain
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- Department
of Biology and Chemistry Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- University
Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
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- Department
of Biology and Chemistry Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Chemical
and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones
Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
- E-mail: (I.B.)
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Dasari B, Fufa T, Aeluri M, Gaddam J, Deora GS, Gaunitz F, Kitambi SS, Arya P. Macrocyclic Toolbox from Epothilone Fragment Identifies a Compound Showing Molecular Interactions with Actin and Novel Promoters of Apoptosis in Patient-derived Brain Tumor Cells. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201600126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Bhanudas Dasari
- Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences (DRILS); University of Hyderabad, Campus; Hyderabad 500046 India
- Sai Advantium Pharma Ltd.; IKP Road Turkapally; Hyderabad 500078 India
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurochirurgie; Universitätsklinikum Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
- Department of Microbiology and Tumor and Cell Biology; Karolinska Institutet; 17177 Stockholm Sweden
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- Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences (DRILS); University of Hyderabad, Campus; Hyderabad 500046 India
- GVK Biosciences, Nacharam; IDA Mallapur; Hyderabad 500076 India
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- Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences (DRILS); University of Hyderabad, Campus; Hyderabad 500046 India
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- School of Pharmacy; The University of Queensland; Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurochirurgie; Universitätsklinikum Leipzig; Leipzig Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Tumor and Cell Biology; Karolinska Institutet; 17177 Stockholm Sweden
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- Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences (DRILS); University of Hyderabad, Campus; Hyderabad 500046 India
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Allen SE, Dokholyan NV, Bowers AA. Dynamic Docking of Conformationally Constrained Macrocycles: Methods and Applications. ACS Chem Biol 2016; 11:10-24. [PMID: 26575401 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Many natural products consist of large and flexible macrocycles that engage their targets via multiple contact points. This combination of contained flexibility and large contact area often allows natural products to bind at target surfaces rather than deep pockets, making them attractive scaffolds for inhibiting protein-protein interactions and other challenging therapeutic targets. The increasing ability to manipulate such compounds either biosynthetically or via semisynthetic modification means that these compounds can now be considered as starting points for medchem campaigns rather than solely as ends. Modern medchem benefits substantially from rational improvements made on the basis of molecular docking. As such, docking methods have been enhanced in recent years to deal with the complicated binding modalities and flexible scaffolds of macrocyclic natural products and natural product-like structures. Here, we comprehensively review methods for treating and docking these large macrocyclic scaffolds and discuss some of the resulting advances in medicinal chemistry.
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- Scott E. Allen
- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and ‡Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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Ho S, Sackett DL, Leighton JL. A "methyl extension" strategy for polyketide natural product linker site validation and its application to dictyostatin. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:14047-50. [PMID: 26522184 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b09869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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An approach to the validation of linker strategies for polyketide natural products with few or no obvious handles for linker attachment, and its application to dictyostatin, are described. Analogues in which the C(6)- and C(12)-methyl groups were replaced by 4-azidobutyl groups were prepared and shown to retain the low nanomolar potency of dictyostatin. Further, conjugation of the C(6) analogue with a cyclooctyne resulted in only minor attenuations in potency. Together, these results shed light on the binding of dictyostatin to β-tubulin, establish a validated linker strategy for dictyostatin, and set the stage for the synthesis and study of dictyostatin conjugates.
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- Stephen Ho
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University , New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Program in Physical Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University , New York, New York 10027, United States
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Larsen EM, Wilson MR, Taylor RE. Conformation-activity relationships of polyketide natural products. Nat Prod Rep 2015; 32:1183-206. [PMID: 25974024 PMCID: PMC4443481 DOI: 10.1039/c5np00014a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Polyketides represent an important class of secondary metabolites that interact with biological targets connected to a variety of disease-associated pathways. Remarkably, nature's assembly lines, polyketide synthases, manufacture these privileged structures through a combinatorial mixture of just a few structural units. This review highlights the role of these structural elements in shaping a polyketide's conformational preferences, the use of computer-based molecular modeling and solution NMR studies in the identification of low-energy conformers, and the importance of conformational analogues in probing the bound conformation. In particular, this review covers several examples wherein conformational analysis complements classic structure-activity relationships in the design of biologically active natural product analogues.
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- Erik M Larsen
- University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 250 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
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Wenderski TA, Stratton CF, Bauer RA, Kopp F, Tan DS. Principal component analysis as a tool for library design: a case study investigating natural products, brand-name drugs, natural product-like libraries, and drug-like libraries. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1263:225-42. [PMID: 25618349 PMCID: PMC4373534 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2269-7_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a useful tool in the design and planning of chemical libraries. PCA can be used to reveal differences in structural and physicochemical parameters between various classes of compounds by displaying them in a convenient graphical format. Herein, we demonstrate the use of PCA to gain insight into structural features that differentiate natural products, synthetic drugs, natural product-like libraries, and drug-like libraries, and show how the results can be used to guide library design.
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- Todd A Wenderski
- Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, 422, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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Discodermolide. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-100023-6.00003-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Sironi E, Colombo L, Lompo A, Messa M, Bonanomi M, Regonesi ME, Salmona M, Airoldi C. Natural Compounds against Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Characterization of the Interaction of Catechins from Green Tea with Aβ1–42, PrP106–126, and Ataxin‐3 Oligomers. Chemistry 2014; 20:13793-800. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201403188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Erika Sironi
- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milano‐Bicocca, P.zza della Scienza, 2, 20126, Milano (Italy), Fax: (+39) 02‐6448‐3565
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, IRCCS‐Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Giuseppe La Masa, 19 20156 Milano (Italy)
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milano‐Bicocca, P.zza della Scienza, 2, 20126, Milano (Italy), Fax: (+39) 02‐6448‐3565
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, IRCCS‐Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Giuseppe La Masa, 19 20156 Milano (Italy)
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milano‐Bicocca, P.zza della Scienza, 2, 20126, Milano (Italy), Fax: (+39) 02‐6448‐3565
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- Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano‐Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, 20126, Milano (Italy)
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, IRCCS‐Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Giuseppe La Masa, 19 20156 Milano (Italy)
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milano‐Bicocca, P.zza della Scienza, 2, 20126, Milano (Italy), Fax: (+39) 02‐6448‐3565
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Bañuelos-Hernández AE, Mendoza-Espinoza JA, Pereda-Miranda R, Cerda-García-Rojas CM. Studies of (−)-Pironetin Binding to α-Tubulin: Conformation, Docking, and Molecular Dynamics. J Org Chem 2014; 79:3752-64. [DOI: 10.1021/jo500420j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Angel E. Bañuelos-Hernández
- Departamento
de Química y Programa de Posgrado en Farmacología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, A. P. 14-740, México D. F. 07000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Química y Programa de Posgrado en Farmacología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, A. P. 14-740, México D. F. 07000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Farmacia, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior Ciudad Universitaria, México D. F. 04510, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Química y Programa de Posgrado en Farmacología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, A. P. 14-740, México D. F. 07000, Mexico
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Canales A, Nieto L, Rodríguez-Salarichs J, Sánchez-Murcia PA, Coderch C, Cortés-Cabrera A, Paterson I, Carlomagno T, Gago F, Andreu JM, Altmann KH, Jiménez-Barbero J, Díaz JF. Molecular recognition of epothilones by microtubules and tubulin dimers revealed by biochemical and NMR approaches. ACS Chem Biol 2014; 9:1033-43. [PMID: 24524625 DOI: 10.1021/cb400673h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The binding of epothilones to dimeric tubulin and to microtubules has been studied by means of biochemical and NMR techniques. We have determined the binding constants of epothilone A (EpoA) and B (EpoB) to dimeric tubulin, which are 4 orders of magnitude lower than those for microtubules, and we have elucidated the conformation and binding epitopes of EpoA and EpoB when bound to tubulin dimers and microtubules in solution. The determined conformation of epothilones when bound to dimeric tubulin is similar to that found by X-ray crystallographic techniques for the binding of EpoA to the Tubulin/RB3/TTL complex; it is markedly different from that reported for EpoA bound to zinc-induced sheets obtained by electron crystallography. Likewise, only the X-ray structure of EpoA bound to the Tubulin/RB3/TTL complex at the luminal site, but not the electron crystallography structure, is compatible with the results obtained by STD on the binding epitope of EpoA bound to dimeric tubulin, thus confirming that the allosteric change (structuring of the M-loop) is the biochemical mechanism of induction of tubulin assembly by epothilones. TR-NOESY signals of EpoA bound to microtubules have been obtained, supporting the interaction with a transient binding site with a fast exchange rate (pore site), consistent with the notion that epothilones access the luminal site through the pore site, as has also been observed for taxanes. Finally, the differences in the tubulin binding affinities of a series of epothilone analogues has been quantitatively explained using the newly determined binding pose and the COMBINE methodology.
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- Angeles Canales
- Centro
de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Dep.
Química Orgánica I, Fac. C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avd. Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro
de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro
de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de
Estudios
Avanzados de Cuba, Carretera San Antonio
km 1 1/2, Valle Grande, La Lisa, Ciudad Habana CP 17100, Cuba
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas−Unidad
Asociada de I+D+i del CSIC, Universidad de Alcalá E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas−Unidad
Asociada de I+D+i del CSIC, Universidad de Alcalá E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas−Unidad
Asociada de I+D+i del CSIC, Universidad de Alcalá E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- University
Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge University, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Structural
and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Área
de Farmacología, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas−Unidad
Asociada de I+D+i del CSIC, Universidad de Alcalá E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro
de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, HCI H405, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Centro
de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro
de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Aeluri M, Chamakuri S, Dasari B, Guduru SKR, Jimmidi R, Jogula S, Arya P. Small Molecule Modulators of Protein–Protein Interactions: Selected Case Studies. Chem Rev 2014; 114:4640-94. [DOI: 10.1021/cr4004049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Madhu Aeluri
- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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- Dr. Reddy’s Institute
of Life Sciences (DRILS), University of Hyderabad Campus Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, India
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Unione L, Galante S, Díaz D, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. NMR and molecular recognition. The application of ligand-based NMR methods to monitor molecular interactions. MEDCHEMCOMM 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4md00138a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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NMR allows the monitoring of molecular recognition processes in solution. Nowadays, a plethora of NMR methods are available to deduce the key features of the interaction from both the ligand or the receptor points of view.
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- Luca Unione
- Chemical and Physical Biology
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
- CSIC
- 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Physical Biology
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
- CSIC
- 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Physical Biology
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
- CSIC
- 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Physical Biology
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
- CSIC
- 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Chemical and Physical Biology
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
- CSIC
- 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Brunden KR, Gardner NM, James MJ, Yao Y, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VMY, Paterson I, Ballatore C, Smith AB. MT-Stabilizer, Dictyostatin, Exhibits Prolonged Brain Retention and Activity: Potential Therapeutic Implications. ACS Med Chem Lett 2013; 4:886-9. [PMID: 24900764 DOI: 10.1021/ml400233e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Inclusions comprising the microtubule (MT)-stabilizing protein, tau, are found within neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders that are broadly referred to as tauopathies. The sequestration of tau into inclusions is believed to cause a loss of tau function, such that MT structure and function are compromised, leading to neuronal damage. Recent data reveal that the brain-penetrant MT-stabilizing agent, epothilone D (EpoD), improves cognitive function and decreases both neuron loss and tau pathology in transgenic mouse models of tauopathy. There is thus a need to identify additional MT-stabilizing compounds with blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability and slow brain clearance, as observed with EpoD. We report here that the MT-stabilizing natural product, dictyostatin, crosses the BBB in mice and has extended brain retention. Moreover, a single administration of dictyostatin to mice causes prolonged stabilization of MTs in the brain. In contrast, the structurally related MT-stabilizer, discodermolide, shows significantly less brain exposure. Thus, dictyostatin merits further investigation as a potential tauopathy therapeutic.
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- Kurt R. Brunden
- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, U.K
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, U.K
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Ho S, Bucher C, Leighton JL. A highly step-economical synthesis of dictyostatin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:6757-61. [PMID: 23666786 PMCID: PMC3812691 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201302565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Stephen Ho
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Ho S, Bucher C, Leighton JL. A Highly Step-Economical Synthesis of Dictyostatin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201302565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Díaz JF, Andreu JM, Jiménez-Barbero J. The interaction of microtubules with stabilizers characterized at biochemical and structural levels. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2013; 286:121-49. [PMID: 23563612 DOI: 10.1007/128_2008_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Since the discovery of paclitaxel and its peculiar mechanism of cytotoxicity, which has made it and its analogues widely used antitumour drugs, great effort has been made to understand the way they produce their effect in microtubules and to find other products that share this effect without the undesired side effects of low solubility and development of multidrug resistance by tumour cells. This chapter reviews the actual knowledge about the biochemical and structural mechanisms of microtubule stabilization by microtubule stabilizing agents, and illustrates the way paclitaxel and its biomimetics induce microtubule assembly, the thermodynamics of their binding, the way they reach their binding site and the conformation they have when bound.
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- J F Díaz
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain,
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Field J, Díaz J, Miller J. The Binding Sites of Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 20:301-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2012] [Revised: 01/14/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Weber F, Brückner R. Conformational Analysis of δ-Lactones by DFT Calculations: The Parent Compound and its Monomethyl and Selected Dimethyl Derivatives. Chemistry 2013; 19:1288-302. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201202988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2012] [Revised: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Choppin S, Ferreiro-Medeiros L, Barbarotto M, Colobert F. Recent advances in the diastereoselective Reformatsky-type reaction. Chem Soc Rev 2013; 42:937-49. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cs35351b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ballatore C, Brunden KR, Huryn DM, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VMY, Smith AB. Microtubule stabilizing agents as potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease and related neurodegenerative tauopathies. J Med Chem 2012; 55:8979-96. [PMID: 23020671 PMCID: PMC3493881 DOI: 10.1021/jm301079z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The microtubule (MT) associated protein tau, which is highly expressed in the axons of neurons, is an endogenous MT-stabilizing agent that plays an important role in axonal transport. Loss of MT-stabilizing tau function, caused by misfolding, hyperphosphorylation, and sequestration of tau into insoluble aggregates, leads to axonal transport deficits with neuropathological consequences. Several in vitro and preclinical in vivo studies have shown that MT-stabilizing drugs can be utilized to compensate for the loss of tau function and to maintain/restore effective axonal transport. These findings indicate that MT-stabilizing compounds hold considerable promise for the treatment of Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies. The present article provides a synopsis of the key findings demonstrating the therapeutic potential of MT-stabilizing drugs in the context of neurodegenerative tauopathies, as well as an overview of the different classes of MT-stabilizing compounds.
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- Carlo Ballatore
- Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34 St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Institute on Aging, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Institute on Aging, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34 St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Institute on Aging, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Institute on Aging, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34 St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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Field JJ, Pera B, Calvo E, Canales A, Zurwerra D, Trigili C, Rodríguez-Salarichs J, Matesanz R, Kanakkanthara A, Wakefield SJ, Singh AJ, Jiménez-Barbero J, Northcote P, Miller JH, López JA, Hamel E, Barasoain I, Altmann KH, Díaz JF. Zampanolide, a potent new microtubule-stabilizing agent, covalently reacts with the taxane luminal site in tubulin α,β-heterodimers and microtubules. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2012; 19:686-98. [PMID: 22726683 PMCID: PMC3383615 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2012.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2011] [Revised: 04/26/2012] [Accepted: 05/03/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Zampanolide and its less active analog dactylolide compete with paclitaxel for binding to microtubules and represent a new class of microtubule-stabilizing agent (MSA). Mass spectrometry demonstrated that the mechanism of action of both compounds involved covalent binding to β-tubulin at residues N228 and H229 in the taxane site of the microtubule. Alkylation of N228 and H229 was also detected in α,β-tubulin dimers. However, unlike cyclostreptin, the other known MSA that alkylates β-tubulin, zampanolide was a strong MSA. Modeling the structure of the adducts, using the NMR-derived dactylolide conformation, indicated that the stabilizing activity of zampanolide is likely due to interactions with the M-loop. Our results strongly support the existence of the luminal taxane site of microtubules in tubulin dimers and suggest that microtubule nucleation induction by MSAs may proceed through an allosteric mechanism.
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- Jessica J. Field
- Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Proteómica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, HCI H405, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Cuba. Ciudad Habana, CP. 17100. Cuba
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Centre for Biodiscovery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Unidad de Proteómica, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Screening Technologies Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, HCI H405, Zürich, Switzerland
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Kopp F, Stratton CF, Akella LB, Tan DS. A diversity-oriented synthesis approach to macrocycles via oxidative ring expansion. Nat Chem Biol 2012; 8:358-65. [PMID: 22406518 PMCID: PMC3359144 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2011] [Accepted: 01/17/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Macrocycles are key structural elements in numerous bioactive small molecules and are attractive targets in the diversity-oriented synthesis of natural product-based libraries. However, efficient and systematic access to diverse collections of macrocycles has proven difficult using classical macrocyclization reactions. To address this problem, we have developed a concise, modular approach to the diversity-oriented synthesis of macrolactones and macrolactams involving oxidative cleavage of a bridging double bond in polycyclic enol ethers and enamines. These substrates are assembled in only 4–5 synthetic steps and undergo ring expansion to afford highly functionalized macrocycles bearing handles for further diversification. In contrast to macrocyclization reactions of corresponding seco-acids, the ring expansion reactions are efficient and insensitive to ring size and stereochemistry, overcoming key limitations of conventional approaches to systematic macrocycle synthesis. Cheminformatic analysis indicates that these macrocycles access regions of chemical space that overlap with natural products, distinct from currently-targeted synthetic drugs.
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- Felix Kopp
- Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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Matesanz R, Rodríguez-Salarichs J, Pera B, Canales A, Andreu JM, Jiménez-Barbero J, Bras W, Nogales A, Fang WS, Díaz JF. Modulation of microtubule interprotofilament interactions by modified taxanes. Biophys J 2011; 101:2970-80. [PMID: 22208196 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2011] [Revised: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 11/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Microtubules assembled with paclitaxel and docetaxel differ in their numbers of protofilaments, reflecting modification of the lateral association between αβ-tubulin molecules in the microtubule wall. These modifications of microtubule structure, through a not-yet-characterized mechanism, are most likely related to the changes in tubulin-tubulin interactions responsible for microtubule stabilization by these antitumor compounds. We have used a set of modified taxanes to study the structural mechanism of microtubule stabilization by these ligands. Using small-angle x-ray scattering, we have determined how modifications in the shape and size of the taxane substituents result in changes in the interprotofilament angles and in their number. The observed effects have been explained using NMR-aided docking and molecular dynamic simulations of taxane binding at the microtubule pore and luminal sites. Modeling results indicate that modification of the size of substituents at positions C7 and C10 of the taxane core influence the conformation of three key elements in microtubule lateral interactions (the M-loop, the S3 β-strand, and the H3 helix) that modulate the contacts between adjacent protofilaments. In addition, modifications of the substituents at position C2 slightly rearrange the ligand in the binding site, modifying the interaction of the C7 substituent with the M-loop.
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- Ruth Matesanz
- Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CIB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Tsvetkov YE, Burg-Roderfeld M, Loers G, Ardá A, Sukhova EV, Khatuntseva EA, Grachev AA, Chizhov AO, Siebert HC, Schachner M, Jiménez-Barbero J, Nifantiev NE. Synthesis and molecular recognition studies of the HNK-1 trisaccharide and related oligosaccharides. The specificity of monoclonal anti-HNK-1 antibodies as assessed by surface plasmon resonance and STD NMR. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 134:426-35. [PMID: 22087768 DOI: 10.1021/ja2083015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The human natural killer cell carbohydrate, HNK-1, plays function-conducive roles in peripheral nerve regeneration and synaptic plasticity. It is also the target of autoantibodies in polyneuropathies. It is thus important to synthesize structurally related HNK-1 carbohydrates for optimizing its function-conducive roles, and for diagnosis and neutralization of autoantibodies in the fatal Guillain-Barré syndrome. As a first step toward these goals, we have synthesized several HNK-1 carbohydrate derivatives to assess the specificity of monoclonal HNK-1 antibodies from rodents: 2-aminoethyl glycosides of selectively O-sulfated trisaccharide corresponding to the HNK-1 antigen, its nonsulfated analogue, and modified structures containing 3-O-fucosyl or 6-O-sulfo substituents in the N-acetylglucosamine residues. These were converted, together with several related oligosaccharides, into biotin-tagged probes to analyze the precise carbohydrate specificity of two anti-HNK-1 antibodies by surface plasmon resonance that revealed a crucial role of the glucuronic acid in antibody binding. The contribution of the different oligosaccharide moieties in the interaction was shown by saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR of the complex consisting of the HNK-1 pentasaccharide and the HNK-1 412 antibody.
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- Yury E Tsvetkov
- Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Airoldi C, Giovannardi S, La Ferla B, Jiménez-Barbero J, Nicotra F. Saturation Transfer Difference NMR Experiments of Membrane Proteins in Living Cells under HR-MAS Conditions: The Interaction of the SGLT1 Co-transporter with Its Ligands. Chemistry 2011; 17:13395-9. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Amos LA. What tubulin drugs tell us about microtubule structure and dynamics. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2011; 22:916-26. [PMID: 22001382 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2011] [Accepted: 09/29/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A wide range of small molecules, including alkaloids, macrolides and peptides, bind to tubulin and disturb microtubule assembly dynamics. Some agents inhibit assembly, others inhibit disassembly. The binding sites of drugs that stabilize microtubules are discussed in relation to the properties of microtubule associated proteins. The activities of assembly inhibitors are discussed in relation to different nucleotide states of tubulin family protein structures.
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- Linda A Amos
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
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STD-NMR: application to transient interactions between biomolecules—a quantitative approach. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2011; 40:1357-69. [DOI: 10.1007/s00249-011-0749-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Accepted: 09/06/2011] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Smith AB, Sugasawa K, Atasoylu O, Yang CPH, Horwitz SB. Design and synthesis of (+)-discodermolide-paclitaxel hybrids leading to enhanced biological activity. J Med Chem 2011; 54:6319-27. [PMID: 21870795 PMCID: PMC3174350 DOI: 10.1021/jm200692n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Potential binding modes of (+)-discodermolide at the paclitaxel binding site of tubulin have been identified by computational studies based on earlier structural and SAR data. Examination of the prospective binding modes reveal that the aromatic pocket occupied by the paclitaxel side chain is unoccupied by (+)-discodermolide. Based on these findings, a small library of (+)-discodermolide-paclitaxel hybrids have been designed and synthesized. Biological evaluation reveals a two- to eight-fold increase in antiproliferative activity compared to the parent molecule using the A549 and MCF-7 cancer cell lines.
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- Amos B. Smith
- Department of Chemistry, Monell Chemical Senses Center and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Chemistry, Monell Chemical Senses Center and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Chemistry, Monell Chemical Senses Center and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
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Canales A, Rodríguez-Salarichs J, Trigili C, Nieto L, Coderch C, Andreu JM, Paterson I, Jiménez-Barbero J, Díaz JF. Insights into the interaction of discodermolide and docetaxel with tubulin. Mapping the binding sites of microtubule-stabilizing agents by using an integrated NMR and computational approach. ACS Chem Biol 2011; 6:789-99. [PMID: 21539341 DOI: 10.1021/cb200099u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The binding interactions of two antitumor agents that target the paclitaxel site, docetaxel and discodermolide, to unassembled α/β-tubulin heterodimers and microtubules have been studied using biochemical and NMR techniques. The use of discodermolide as a water-soluble paclitaxel biomimetic and extensive NMR experiments allowed the detection of binding of microtubule-stabilizing agents to unassembled tubulin α/β-heterodimers. The bioactive 3D structures of docetaxel and discodermolide bound to α/β-heterodimers were elucidated and compared to those bound to microtubules, where subtle changes in the conformations of docetaxel in its different bound states were evident. Moreover, the combination of experimental TR-NOE and STD NMR data with CORCEMA-ST calculations indicate that docetaxel and discodermolide target an additional binding site at the pore of the microtubules, which is different from the internal binding site at the lumen previously determined by electron crystallography. Binding to this pore site can then be considered as the first ligand-protein recognition event that takes place in advance of the drug internalization process and interaction with the lumen of the microtubules.
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- Angeles Canales
- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Química Orgánica I. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Cuba, Carretera San Antonio km 1 1/2, Valle Grande, La Lisa, Ciudad Habana, CP 17100, Cuba
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- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Farmacología, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Dept. Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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de Lemos E, Agouridas E, Sorin G, Guerreiro A, Commerçon A, Pancrazi A, Betzer JF, Lannou MI, Ardisson J. Conception, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Original Discodermolide Analogues. Chemistry 2011; 17:10123-34. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201100675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Qi J, Blanden AR, Bane S, Kingston DGI. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of a simplified fluorescently labeled discodermolide as a molecular probe to study the binding of discodermolide to tubulin. Bioorg Med Chem 2011; 19:5247-54. [PMID: 21802957 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2011.06.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2011] [Revised: 06/24/2011] [Accepted: 06/28/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a simplified fluorescently labeled discodermolide analogue possessing a dimethylaminobenzoyl fluorophore has been achieved. Stereoselective Suzuki coupling and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction comprised the key tactics for its construction. The analogue exhibited qualitatively similar activity to paclitaxel in a tubulin assembly assay, and it can thus be used as a fluorescent molecular probe to explore the local environment of the discodermolide binding site on tubulin. The results of fluorescence measurements on the tubulin-bound analogue are reported.
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- Jun Qi
- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Vollmer LL, Jiménez M, Camarco DP, Zhu W, Daghestani HN, Balachandran R, Reese CE, Lazo JS, Hukriede NA, Curran DP, Day BW, Vogt A. A simplified synthesis of novel dictyostatin analogues with in vitro activity against epothilone B-resistant cells and antiangiogenic activity in zebrafish embryos. Mol Cancer Ther 2011; 10:994-1006. [PMID: 21490306 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-10-1048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The natural product (--)-dictyostatin is a microtubule-stabilizing agent that potently inhibits the growth of human cancer cells, including paclitaxel-resistant clones. Extensive structure-activity relationship studies have revealed several regions of the molecule that can be altered without loss of activity. The most potent synthetic dictyostatin analogue described to date, 6-epi-dictyostatin, has superior in vivo antitumor activity against human breast cancer xenografts compared with paclitaxel. In spite of their encouraging activities in preclinical studies, the complex chemical structure of the dictyostatins presents a major obstacle for their development into novel antineoplastic therapies. We recently reported a streamlined synthesis of 16-desmethyl-25,26-dihydrodictyostatins and found several agents that, when compared with 6-epi-dictyostatin, retained nanomolar activity in cellular microtubule-bundling assays but had lost activity against paclitaxel-resistant cells with mutations in β-tubulin. Extending these studies, we applied the new, highly convergent synthesis to generate 25,26-dihydrodictyostatin and 6-epi-25,26-dihydrodictyostatin. Both compounds were potent microtubule-perturbing agents that induced mitotic arrest and microtubule assembly in vitro and in intact cells. In vitro radioligand binding studies showed that 25,26-dihydrodictyostatin and its C6-epimer were capable of displacing [3H]paclitaxel and [14C]epothilone B from microtubules with potencies comparable to (--)-dictyostatin and discodermolide. Both compounds inhibited the growth of paclitaxel- and epothilone B-resistant cell lines at low nanomolar concentrations, synergized with paclitaxel in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells, and had antiangiogenic activity in transgenic zebrafish larvae. These data identify 25,26-dihydrodictyostatin and 6-epi-25,26-dihydrodictyostatin as candidates for scale-up synthesis and further preclinical development.
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- Laura L Vollmer
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, 10047 Biomedical Science Tower 3, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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Zanato C, Pignataro L, Ambrosi A, Hao Z, Trigili C, Díaz JF, Barasoain I, Gennari C. Highly Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (+)-9-epi-Dictyostatin and (-)-12,13-Bis-epi-dictyostatin. European J Org Chem 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201100244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Wright AE. The Lithistida: important sources of compounds useful in biomedical research. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2011; 21:801-7. [PMID: 20971629 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2010.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2010] [Revised: 09/06/2010] [Accepted: 09/17/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Lithistid sponges have been an important source of structurally complex natural products with potent biological activities. Examples of compounds marketed as biological markers along with recent advances in defining the modes of action and biomedical potential of lithistid-derived compounds are presented.
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- Amy E Wright
- Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, Center for Marine Biomedical and Biotechnology Research, 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946, USA.
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Jogalekar AS, Damodaran K, Kriel FH, Jung WH, Alcaraz AA, Zhong S, Curran DP, Snyder JP. Dictyostatin Flexibility Bridges Conformations in Solution and in the β-Tubulin Taxane Binding Site. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:2427-36. [DOI: 10.1021/ja1023817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ashutosh S. Jogalekar
- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 1101 Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260-3900, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 1101 Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260-3900, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 1101 Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260-3900, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Paterson I, Naylor GJ, Gardner NM, Guzmán E, Wright AE. Total synthesis and biological evaluation of a series of macrocyclic hybrids and analogues of the antimitotic natural products dictyostatin, discodermolide, and taxol. Chem Asian J 2011; 6:459-73. [PMID: 21254424 PMCID: PMC3050503 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201000541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of a series of hybrids and analogues of the microtubule-stabilizing anticancer agents dictyostatin, discodermolide, and taxol is described. A 22-membered macrolide scaffold was prepared by adapting earlier synthetic routes directed towards dictyostatin and discodermolide, taking advantage of the distinctive structural and stereochemical similarities between these two polyketide-derived marine natural products. Initial endeavors towards accessing novel discodermolide/dictyostatin hybrids led to the adoption of a late-stage diversification strategy and the construction of a small library of methyl-ether derivatives, along with the first triple hybrids bearing the side-chain of taxol or taxotere attached through an ester linkage. Biological assays of the anti-proliferative activity of these compounds in a series of human cancer cell lines, including the taxol-resistant NCI/ADR-Res cell line, allowed the proposal of various structure-activity relationships. This led to the identification of a potent macrocyclic discodermolide/dictyostatin hybrid 12 and its C9 methoxy derivative 38, accessible by an efficient total synthesis and with a similar biological profile to dictyostatin.
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- Ian Paterson
- University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW UK.
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Calle LP, Cañada FJ, Jiménez-Barbero J. Application of NMR methods to the study of the interaction of natural products with biomolecular receptors. Nat Prod Rep 2011; 28:1118-25. [DOI: 10.1039/c0np00071j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Aylett CH, Löwe J, Amos LA. New Insights into the Mechanisms of Cytomotive Actin and Tubulin Filaments. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 292:1-71. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386033-0.00001-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Ferreiro-Mederos L, Vila-Gisbert S, Urbano A, Carreño MC, Colobert F. Stereoselective synthesis of the C15-C26 fragment of the antitumor agent (-)-dictyostatin. Org Biomol Chem 2010; 9:758-64. [PMID: 21082125 DOI: 10.1039/c0ob00491j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis of the C15-C26 fragment of (-)-dictyostatin is reported in 10 steps and 28% overall yield. The key steps are the two stereoselective sulfoxide-directed processes: a Reformatsky-type reaction and a β-keto sulfoxide reduction.
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- Leticia Ferreiro-Mederos
- Departamento de Química Orgánica (Módulo 01), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Zhu W, Jiménez M, Jung WH, Camarco DP, Balachandran R, Vogt A, Day BW, Curran DP. Streamlined syntheses of (-)-dictyostatin, 16-desmethyl-25,26-dihydrodictyostatin, and 6-epi-16-desmethyl-25,26-dihydrodictyostatin. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:9175-87. [PMID: 20545347 DOI: 10.1021/ja103537u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The dictyostatins are a promising class of potential anti-cancer drugs because they are powerful microtubule-stabilizing agents, but the complexity of their chemical structures is a severe impediment to their further development. On the basis of both synthetic and medicinal chemistry analyses, 16-desmethyl-25,26-dihydrodictyostatin and its C6 epimer were chosen as potentially potent yet accessible dictyostatin analogues, and three new syntheses were developed. A relatively classical synthesis involving vinyllithium addition and macrocyclization gave way to a newer and more practical approach based on esterification and ring-closing metathesis reaction. Finally, aspects of these two approaches were combined to provide a third new synthesis based on esterification and Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction. This was used to prepare the target dihydro analogues and the natural product. All of the syntheses are streamlined because of their high convergency. The work provided several new analogues of dictyostatin, including a truncated macrolactone and a C10 E-alkene, which were 400- and 50-fold less active than (-)-dictyostatin, respectively. In contrast, the targeted 16-desmethyl-25,26-dihydrodictyostatin analogues retained almost complete activity in preliminary biological assays.
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- Wei Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Zanato C, Pignataro L, Ambrosi A, Hao Z, Gennari C. A Highly Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (+)-9-epi-Dictyostatin. European J Org Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201001018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Paterson I, Britton R, Delgado O, Gardner NM, Meyer A, Naylor GJ, Poullennec KG. Total synthesis of (−)-dictyostatin, a microtubule-stabilising anticancer macrolide of marine sponge origin. Tetrahedron 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2010.01.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Barasoain I, García-Carril AM, Matesanz R, Maccari G, Trigili C, Mori M, Shi JZ, Fang WS, Andreu JM, Botta M, Díaz JF. Probing the pore drug binding site of microtubules with fluorescent taxanes: evidence of two binding poses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 17:243-53. [PMID: 20338516 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2009] [Revised: 01/26/2010] [Accepted: 02/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The pore site in microtubules has been studied with the use of Hexaflutax, a fluorescent probe derived from paclitaxel. The compound is active in cells with similar effects to paclitaxel, indicating that the pore may be a target to microtubule stabilizing agents. While other taxanes bind microtubules in a monophasic way, thus indicating a single type of sites, Hexaflutax association is biphasic. Analysis of the phases indicates that two different binding sites are detected, reflecting two different modes of binding, which could arise from different arrangements of the taxane or fluorescein moieties in the pore. Association of the 4-4-20 antifluorescein monoclonal antibody-Hexaflutax complex to microtubules remains biphasic, thus indicating that the two phases observed arise from two different poses of the taxane moiety.
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- Isabel Barasoain
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Probing interactions of tubulin with small molecules, peptides, and protein fragments by solution nuclear magnetic resonance. Methods Cell Biol 2010. [PMID: 20466147 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(10)95022-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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The description of the molecular mechanisms of interaction between tubulin or microtubules and partners at atomic scale is expected to have critical impacts on the understanding of basic physiological processes. This information will also help the design of future drug candidates that may be used to fight various pathologies such as cancer or neurological diseases. For these reasons, this aspect of tubulin research has been tackled since the seventies using many different methods and at different scales. NMR appears as a unique approach to provide, with atomic resolution, the solution structure and dynamical properties of tubulin/microtubule partners in free and bound states. Though tubulin is not directly amenable to solution NMR, the NMR ligand-based experiments allow one to obtain valuable data on the molecular mechanisms that sustain structure-function relationship, in particular atomic details on the partner binding site. We will first describe herein some basic principles of solution NMR spectroscopy that should not be missed for a comprehensive reading of NMR reports. A series of results will then be presented to illustrate the wealth and variety of NMR experiments and how this approach enlightens tubulin/microtubules interaction with partners.
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Jogalekar AS, Kriel FH, Shi Q, Cornett B, Cicero D, Snyder JP. The discodermolide hairpin structure flows from conformationally stable modular motifs. J Med Chem 2010; 53:155-65. [PMID: 19894728 DOI: 10.1021/jm9015284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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(+)-Discodermolide (DDM), a polyketide macrolide from marine sponge, is a potent microtubule assembly promoter. Reported solid-state, solution, and protein-bound DDM conformations reveal the unusual result that a common hairpin conformational motif exists in all three microenvironments. No other flexible microtubule binding agent exhibits such constancy of conformation. In the present study, we combine force-field conformational searches with NMR deconvolution in different solvents to compare DDM conformers with those observed in other environments. While several conformational families are perceived, the hairpin form dominates. The stability of this motif is dictated primarily by steric factors arising from repeated modular segments in DDM composed of the C(Me)-CHX-C(Me) fragment. Furthermore, docking protocols were utilized to probe the DDM binding mode in beta-tubulin. A previously suggested pose is substantiated (Pose-1), while an alternative (Pose-2) has been identified. SAR analysis for DDM analogues differentiates the two poses and suggests that Pose-2 is better able to accommodate the biodata.
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- Ashutosh S Jogalekar
- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Khrapunovich-Baine M, Menon V, Verdier-Pinard P, Smith AB, Angeletti RH, Fiser A, Horwitz SB, Xiao H. Distinct pose of discodermolide in taxol binding pocket drives a complementary mode of microtubule stabilization. Biochemistry 2010; 48:11664-77. [PMID: 19863156 DOI: 10.1021/bi901351q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The microtubule cytoskeleton has proven to be an effective target for cancer therapeutics. One class of drugs, known as microtubule stabilizing agents (MSAs), binds to microtubule polymers and stabilizes them against depolymerization. The prototype of this group of drugs, Taxol, is an effective chemotherapeutic agent used extensively in the treatment of human ovarian, breast, and lung carcinomas. Although electron crystallography and photoaffinity labeling experiments determined that the binding site for Taxol is in a hydrophobic pocket in beta-tubulin, little was known about the effects of this drug on the conformation of the entire microtubule. A recent study from our laboratory utilizing hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) in concert with various mass spectrometry (MS) techniques has provided new information on the structure of microtubules upon Taxol binding. In the current study we apply this technique to determine the binding mode and the conformational effects on chicken erythrocyte tubulin (CET) of another MSA, discodermolide, whose synthetic analogues may have potential use in the clinic. We confirmed that, like Taxol, discodermolide binds to the taxane binding pocket in beta-tubulin. However, as opposed to Taxol, which has major interactions with the M-loop, discodermolide orients itself away from this loop and toward the N-terminal H1-S2 loop. Additionally, discodermolide stabilizes microtubules mainly via its effects on interdimer contacts, specifically on the alpha-tubulin side, and to a lesser extent on interprotofilament contacts between adjacent beta-tubulin subunits. Also, our results indicate complementary stabilizing effects of Taxol and discodermolide on the microtubules, which may explain the synergy observed between the two drugs in vivo.
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- Marina Khrapunovich-Baine
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Paterson I, Naylor GJ, Fujita T, Guzmán E, Wright AE. Total synthesis of a library of designed hybrids of the microtubule-stabilising anticancer agents taxol, discodermolide and dictyostatin. Chem Commun (Camb) 2009; 46:261-3. [PMID: 20024345 DOI: 10.1039/b921237j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A hybrid library of the marine natural products dictyostatin and discodermolide, incorporating the taxol or taxotere side chains, were synthesised; preliminary biological evaluation in the PANC-1 cancer cell line revealed significant antiproliferative activity, demonstrating that a macrolide scaffold is an effective surrogate for the baccatin core of taxol.
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- Ian Paterson
- University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK, CB2 1EW.
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