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Li N, Liu YH, Wu J, Liu QG, Niu JB, Zhang Y, Fu XJ, Song J, Zhang SY. Strategies that regulate Hippo signaling pathway for novel anticancer therapeutics. Eur J Med Chem 2024; 276:116694. [PMID: 39047607 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.116694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2024] [Revised: 06/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
Abstract
As a highly conserved signaling network across different species, the Hippo pathway is involved in various biological processes. Dysregulation of the Hippo pathway could lead to a wide range of diseases, particularly cancers. Extensive researches have demonstrated the close association between dysregulated Hippo signaling and tumorigenesis as well as tumor progression. Consequently, targeting the Hippo pathway has emerged as a promising strategy for cancer treatment. In fact, there has been an increasing number of reports on small molecules that target the Hippo pathway, exhibiting therapeutic potential as anticancer agents. Importantly, some of Hippo signaling pathway inhibitors have been approved for the clinical trials. In this work, we try to provide an overview of the core components and signal transduction mechanisms of the Hippo signaling pathway. Furthermore, we also analyze the relationship between Hippo signaling pathway and cancers, as well as summarize the small molecules with proven anti-tumor effects in clinical trials or reported in literatures. Additionally, we discuss the anti-tumor potency and structure-activity relationship of the small molecule compounds, providing a valuable insight for further development of anticancer agents against this pathway.
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- Na Li
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Drug Discovery & Development, Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies (Ministry of Education), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Drug Discovery & Development, Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies (Ministry of Education), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Drug Discovery & Development, Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies (Ministry of Education), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Drug Discovery & Development, Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Preparation Technologies (Ministry of Education), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China; State Key Laboratory of Esophageal Cancer Prevention &Treatment, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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Pei S, Piao HL. Exploring Protein S-Palmitoylation: Mechanisms, Detection, and Strategies for Inhibitor Discovery. ACS Chem Biol 2024; 19:1868-1882. [PMID: 39160165 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/21/2024]
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S-palmitoylation is a reversible and dynamic process that involves the addition of long-chain fatty acids to proteins. This protein modification regulates various aspects of protein function, including subcellular localization, stability, conformation, and biomolecular interactions. The zinc finger DHHC (ZDHHC) domain-containing protein family is the main group of enzymes responsible for catalyzing protein S-palmitoylation, and 23 members have been identified in mammalian cells. Many proteins that undergo S-palmitoylation have been linked to disease pathogenesis and progression, suggesting that the development of effective inhibitors is a promising therapeutic strategy. Reducing the protein S-palmitoylation level can target either the PATs directly or their substrates. However, there are rare clinically effective S-palmitoylation inhibitors. This review aims to provide an overview of the S-palmitoylation field, including the catalytic mechanism of ZDHHC, S-palmitoylation detection methods, and the functional impact of protein S-palmitoylation. Additionally, this review focuses on current strategies for expanding the chemical toolbox to develop novel and effective inhibitors that can reduce the level of S-palmitoylation of the target protein.
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- Shaojun Pei
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 116023, Dalian, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China
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- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 116023, Dalian, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, China Medical University, 110122 Shenyang, China
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Yu Lin MO, Sampath D, Bosykh DA, Wang C, Wang X, Subramaniam T, Han W, Hong W, Chakraborty S. YAP/TAZ Drive Agrin-Matrix Metalloproteinase 12-Mediated Diabetic Skin Wound Healing. J Invest Dermatol 2024:S0022-202X(24)00391-9. [PMID: 38810954 DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2024.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
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Macroscopic loss of extracellular matrix can lead to chronic defects in skin wound healing, but supplementation of extracellular matrix holds promise for facilitating wound closure, particularly in diabetic wound healing. We recently showed that the extracellular matrix proteoglycan agrin accelerates cutaneous wound healing by improving mechanoperception of migrating keratinocytes and allowing them to respond to mechanical stresses through matrix metalloproteinase 12 (MMP12). RNA-sequencing analysis revealed that in addition to a disorganized extracellular matrix, agrin-depleted skin cells have impaired YAP/TAZ transcriptional outcomes, leading us to hypothesize that YAP/TAZ, as central mechanosensors, drive the functionality of agrin-MMP12 signaling during cutaneous wound repair. In this study, we demonstrate that agrin activates YAP/TAZ during migration of keratinocytes after wounding in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, YAP/TAZ sustain agrin and MMP12 protein expression during migration after wounding through positive feedback. YAP/TAZ silencing abolishes agrin-MMP12-mediated force recognition and geometrical constraints. Importantly, soluble agrin therapy accelerates wound closure in diabetic mouse models by engaging MMP12-YAP. Because patients with diabetic foot ulcers and impaired wound healing have reduced expression of agrin-MMP12 that correlates with YAP/TAZ inactivation, we propose that timely activation of YAP/TAZ by soluble agrin therapy can accentuate mechanobiological microenvironments for efficient wound healing, under normal and diabetic conditions.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore; Centre for Vision Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Clinical Research Unit, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore.
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, Singapore; Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA; Program of Developmental Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA.
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Kim J, Jin H, Kim J, Cho SY, Moon S, Wang J, Mao J, No KT. Leveraging the Fragment Molecular Orbital and MM-GBSA Methods in Virtual Screening for the Discovery of Novel Non-Covalent Inhibitors Targeting the TEAD Lipid Binding Pocket. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:5358. [PMID: 38791396 PMCID: PMC11121470 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25105358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2024] [Revised: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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The Hippo pathway controls organ size and homeostasis and is linked to numerous diseases, including cancer. The transcriptional enhanced associate domain (TEAD) family of transcription factors acts as a receptor for downstream effectors, namely yes-associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional co-activator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ), which binds to various transcription factors and is essential for stimulated gene transcription. YAP/TAZ-TEAD facilitates the upregulation of multiple genes involved in evolutionary cell proliferation and survival. TEAD1-4 overexpression has been observed in different cancers in various tissues, making TEAD an attractive target for drug development. The central drug-accessible pocket of TEAD is crucial because it undergoes a post-translational modification called auto-palmitoylation. Crystal structures of the C-terminal TEAD complex with small molecules are available in the Protein Data Bank, aiding structure-based drug design. In this study, we utilized the fragment molecular orbital (FMO) method, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, shape-based screening, and molecular mechanics-generalized Born surface area (MM-GBSA) calculations for virtual screening, and we identified a novel non-covalent inhibitor-BC-001-with IC50 = 3.7 μM in a reporter assay. Subsequently, we optimized several analogs of BC-001 and found that the optimized compound BC-011 exhibited an IC50 of 72.43 nM. These findings can be used to design effective TEAD modulators with anticancer therapeutic implications.
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- Jongwan Kim
- Bioinformatics and Molecular Design Research Center (BMDRC), Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea;
- Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Molecular Design Research Center (BMDRC), Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea;
- The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Integrative Biotechnology & Translational Medicine, Yonsei University, Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (J.K.); (J.W.); (J.M.)
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- The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Integrative Biotechnology & Translational Medicine, Yonsei University, Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (J.K.); (J.W.); (J.M.)
- Baobab AiBIO Co., Ltd., Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (S.Y.C.); (S.M.)
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- Baobab AiBIO Co., Ltd., Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (S.Y.C.); (S.M.)
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- Baobab AiBIO Co., Ltd., Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (S.Y.C.); (S.M.)
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- The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Integrative Biotechnology & Translational Medicine, Yonsei University, Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (J.K.); (J.W.); (J.M.)
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- The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Integrative Biotechnology & Translational Medicine, Yonsei University, Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (J.K.); (J.W.); (J.M.)
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- Bioinformatics and Molecular Design Research Center (BMDRC), Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea;
- The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Integrative Biotechnology & Translational Medicine, Yonsei University, Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (J.K.); (J.W.); (J.M.)
- Baobab AiBIO Co., Ltd., Incheon 21983, Republic of Korea; (S.Y.C.); (S.M.)
- Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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Evsen L, Morris PJ, Thomas CJ, Ceribelli M. Comparative Assessment and High-Throughput Drug-Combination Profiling of TEAD-Palmitoylation Inhibitors in Hippo Pathway Deficient Mesothelioma. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:1635. [PMID: 38139762 PMCID: PMC10747288 DOI: 10.3390/ph16121635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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The hippo signaling pathway is a central tumor suppressor cascade frequently inactivated in selected human cancers, leading to the aberrant activation of TEAD transcription factors. Whereas several TEAD auto-palmitoylation inhibitors are currently in development, a comprehensive assessment of this novel drug-modality is missing. Here, we report a comparative analysis among six TEADi(s) using cell-based and biochemical assays in Hippo pathway deficient mesothelioma. Our analysis revealed varying potency and selectivity across TEADi, also highlighting their limited efficacy. To overcome this limitation, we performed an unbiased, quantitative high-throughput drug screening by combining the TEADi VT-103 with a library of approximately 3000 oncology-focused drugs. By exploiting this library's mechanistic redundancy, we identified several drug-classes robustly synergized with TEADi. These included glucocorticoid-receptor (GR) agonists, Mek1/2 inhibitors, mTOR inhibitors, and PI3K inhibitors, among others. Altogether, we report a coherent single-agent dataset informing on potency and selectivity of TEAD-palmitoylation inhibitors as single-agents. We also describe a rational pipeline enabling the systematic identification of TEAD druggable co-dependencies. This data should support the pre-clinical development of drug combination strategies for the treatment of Hippo-deficient mesothelioma, and more broadly, for other cancers dependent on the oncogenic activity of YAP/TEAD.
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- Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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Fnaiche A, Mélin L, Suárez NG, Paquin A, Vu V, Li F, Allali-Hassani A, Bolotokova A, Allemand F, Gelin M, Cotelle P, Woo S, LaPlante SR, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Santhakumar V, Vedadi M, Guichou JF, Annabi B, Gagnon A. Development of LM-41 and AF-2112, two flufenamic acid-derived TEAD inhibitors obtained through the replacement of the trifluoromethyl group by aryl rings. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2023; 95:129488. [PMID: 37770003 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2023.129488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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The Hippo pathway regulates organ size and tissue homeostasis by controlling cell proliferation and apoptosis. The YAP-TEAD transcription factor, the downstream effector of the Hippo pathway, regulates the expression of genes such as CTGF, Cyr61, Axl and NF2. Aberrant Hippo activity has been identified in multiple types of cancers. Flufenamic acid (FA) was reported to bind in a liphophilic TEAD palmitic acid (PA) pocket, leading to reduction of the expression of Axl and NF2. Here, we show that the replacement of the trifluoromethyl moiety in FA by aromatic groups, directly connected to the scaffold or separated by a linker, leads to compounds with better affinity to TEAD. Co-crystallization studies show that these compounds bind similarly to FA, but deeper within the PA pocket. Our studies identified LM-41 and AF-2112 as two TEAD binders that strongly reduce the expression of CTGF, Cyr61, Axl and NF2. LM-41 gave the strongest reduction of migration of human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.
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- Ahmed Fnaiche
- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Centre de Biologie Structurale, CNRS, INSERM, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Biologie Structurale, CNRS, INSERM, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Université de Lille, CHU Lille, INSERM-UMR-S-1172-JPArc-Centre de Recherche Jean-Pierre Aubert, Neurosciences et Cancer, F-59000 Lille, France
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- INRS-Centre Armand Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Université du Québec, 531 Boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V 1B7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Université du Québec, 531 Boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada; Drug Discovery Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre de Biologie Structurale, CNRS, INSERM, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada.
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada.
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Mokhtari RB, Ashayeri N, Baghaie L, Sambi M, Satari K, Baluch N, Bosykh DA, Szewczuk MR, Chakraborty S. The Hippo Pathway Effectors YAP/TAZ-TEAD Oncoproteins as Emerging Therapeutic Targets in the Tumor Microenvironment. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:3468. [PMID: 37444578 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15133468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Various cancer cell-associated intrinsic and extrinsic inputs act on YAP/TAZ proteins to mediate the hyperactivation of the TEAD transcription factor-based transcriptome. This YAP/TAZ-TEAD activity can override the growth-limiting Hippo tumor-suppressor pathway that maintains normal tissue homeostasis. Herein, we provide an integrated summary of the contrasting roles of YAP/TAZ during normal tissue homeostasis versus tumor initiation and progression. In addition to upstream factors that regulate YAP/TAZ in the TME, critical insights on the emerging functions of YAP/TAZ in immune suppression and abnormal vasculature development during tumorigenesis are illustrated. Lastly, we discuss the current methods that intervene with the YAP/TAZ-TEAD oncogenic signaling pathway and the emerging applications of combination therapies, gut microbiota, and epigenetic plasticity that could potentiate the efficacy of chemo/immunotherapy as improved cancer therapeutic strategies.
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- Reza Bayat Mokhtari
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Ali-Asghar Children Hospital, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran 1449614535, Iran
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Ali-Asghar Children Hospital, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran 1449614535, Iran
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- Department of Immunology and Allergy, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Ibrahim MT, Verkhivker GM, Misra J, Tao P. Novel Allosteric Effectors Targeting Human Transcription Factor TEAD. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:9009. [PMID: 37240355 PMCID: PMC10219411 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24109009] [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: 04/01/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
The Hippo pathway is an evolutionary conserved signaling network involved in several cellular regulatory processes. Dephosphorylation and overexpression of Yes-associated proteins (YAPs) in the Hippo-off state are common in several types of solid tumors. YAP overexpression results in its nuclear translocation and interaction with transcriptional enhanced associate domain 1-4 (TEAD1-4) transcription factors. Covalent and non-covalent inhibitors have been developed to target several interaction sites between TEAD and YAP. The most targeted and effective site for these developed inhibitors is the palmitate-binding pocket in the TEAD1-4 proteins. Screening of a DNA-encoded library against the TEAD central pocket was performed experimentally to identify six new allosteric inhibitors. Inspired by the structure of the TED-347 inhibitor, chemical modification was performed on the original inhibitors by replacing secondary methyl amide with a chloromethyl ketone moiety. Various computational tools, including molecular dynamics, free energy perturbation, and Markov state model analysis, were employed to study the effect of ligand binding on the protein conformational space. Four of the six modified ligands were associated with enhanced allosteric communication between the TEAD4 and YAP1 domains indicated by the relative free energy perturbation to original molecules. Phe229, Thr332, Ile374, and Ile395 residues were revealed to be essential for the effective binding of the inhibitors.
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- Mayar Tarek Ibrahim
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA; (M.T.I.); (P.T.)
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- Graduate Program in Computational and Data Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA
- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, CA 92618, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA; (M.T.I.); (P.T.)
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Lou J, Lu Y, Cheng J, Zhou F, Yan Z, Zhang D, Meng X, Zhao Y. A chemical perspective on the modulation of TEAD transcriptional activities: Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities. Eur J Med Chem 2022; 243:114684. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Luo M, Xu Y, Chen H, Wu Y, Pang A, Hu J, Dong X, Che J, Yang H. Advances of targeting the YAP/TAZ-TEAD complex in the hippo pathway for the treatment of cancers. Eur J Med Chem 2022; 244:114847. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 10/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Sileo P, Simonin C, Melnyk P, Chartier-Harlin MC, Cotelle P. Crosstalk between the Hippo Pathway and the Wnt Pathway in Huntington's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders. Cells 2022; 11:cells11223631. [PMID: 36429058 PMCID: PMC9688160 DOI: 10.3390/cells11223631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The Hippo pathway consists of a cascade of kinases that controls the phosphorylation of the co-activators YAP/TAZ. When unphosphorylated, YAP and TAZ translocate into the nucleus, where they mainly bind to the TEAD transcription factor family and activate genes related to cell proliferation and survival. In this way, the inhibition of the Hippo pathway promotes cell survival, proliferation, and stemness fate. Another pathway can modulate these processes, namely the Wnt/β-catenin pathway that is indeed involved in cellular functions such as proliferation and cell survival, as well as apoptosis, growth, and cell renewal. Wnt signaling can act in a canonical or noncanonical way, depending on whether β-catenin is involved in the process. In this review, we will focus only on the canonical Wnt pathway. It has emerged that YAP/TAZ are components of the β-catenin destruction complex and that there is a close relationship between the Hippo pathway and the canonical Wnt pathway. Furthermore, recent data have shown that both of these pathways may play a role in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Thus, this review analyzes the Hippo pathway and the Wnt pathway, their crosstalk, and their involvement in Huntington's disease, as well as in other neurodegenerative disorders. Altogether, these data suggest possible therapeutic approaches targeting key players of these pathways.
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- Pasquale Sileo
- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, F-59000 Lille, France
- Centre de Référence Maladie de Huntington, CHU Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, F-59000 Lille, France
- Correspondence: (M.-C.C.-H.); (P.C.)
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- Univ. Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, F-59000 Lille, France
- ENSCL-Centrale Lille, CS 90108, F-59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
- Correspondence: (M.-C.C.-H.); (P.C.)
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Lama R, Galster SL, Xu C, Davison LW, Chemler SR, Wang X. Dual Targeting of MDM4 and FTH1 by MMRi71 for Induced Protein Degradation and p53-Independent Apoptosis in Leukemia Cells. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27227665. [PMID: 36431769 PMCID: PMC9695299 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27227665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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MDM2 and MDM4 are cancer drug targets validated in multiple models for p53-based cancer therapies. The RING domains of MDM2 and non-p53-binder MDM2 splice isoforms form RING domain heterodimer polyubiquitin E3 ligases with MDM4, which regulate p53 stability in vivo and promote tumorigenesis independent of p53. Despite the importance of the MDM2 RING domain in p53 regulation and cancer development, small molecule inhibitors targeting the E3 ligase activity of MDM2-MDM4 are poorly explored. Here, we describe the synthesis and characterization of quinolinol derivatives for the identification of analogs that are capable of targeting the MDM2-MDM4 heterodimer E3 ligase and inducing apoptosis in cells. The structure-activity-relationship (SAR) study identified structural moieties critical for the inhibitory effects toward MDM2-MDM4 E3 ligase, the targeted degradation of MDM4 and FTH1 in cells, and anti-proliferation activity. Lead optimization led to the development of compound MMRi71 with improved activity. In addition to accumulating p53 proteins in wt-p53 bearing cancer cells as expected of any MDM2 inhibitors, MMRi71 effectively kills p53-null leukemia cells, an activity that conventional MDM2-p53 disrupting inhibitors lack. This study provides a prototype structure for developing MDM4/FTH1 dual-targeting inhibitors as potential cancer therapeutics.
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- Rati Lama
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
- Correspondence: (S.R.C.); (X.W.)
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
- Correspondence: (S.R.C.); (X.W.)
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Sun Y, Hu L, Tao Z, Jarugumilli GK, Erb H, Singh A, Li Q, Cotton JL, Greninger P, Egan RK, Tony Ip Y, Benes CH, Che J, Mao J, Wu X. Pharmacological blockade of TEAD-YAP reveals its therapeutic limitation in cancer cells. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6744. [PMID: 36347861 PMCID: PMC9643419 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34559-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Targeting TEAD autopalmitoylation has been proposed as a therapeutic approach for YAP-dependent cancers. Here we show that TEAD palmitoylation inhibitor MGH-CP1 and analogues block cancer cell "stemness", organ overgrowth and tumor initiation in vitro and in vivo. MGH-CP1 sensitivity correlates significantly with YAP-dependency in a large panel of cancer cell lines. However, TEAD inhibition or YAP/TAZ knockdown leads to transient inhibition of cell cycle progression without inducing cell death, undermining their potential therapeutic utilities. We further reveal that TEAD inhibition or YAP/TAZ silencing leads to VGLL3-mediated transcriptional activation of SOX4/PI3K/AKT signaling axis, which contributes to cancer cell survival and confers therapeutic resistance to TEAD inhibitors. Consistently, combination of TEAD and AKT inhibitors exhibits strong synergy in inducing cancer cell death. Our work characterizes the therapeutic opportunities and limitations of TEAD palmitoylation inhibitors in cancers, and uncovers an intrinsic molecular mechanism, which confers potential therapeutic resistance.
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- Yang Sun
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA.
- Cancer Institute, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, MA, USA.
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, MA, USA.
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Howard A, Bojko J, Flynn B, Bowen S, Jungwirth U, Walko G. Targeting the Hippo/YAP/TAZ signalling pathway: Novel opportunities for therapeutic interventions into skin cancers. Exp Dermatol 2022; 31:1477-1499. [PMID: 35913427 PMCID: PMC9804452 DOI: 10.1111/exd.14655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Skin cancers are by far the most frequently diagnosed human cancers. The closely related transcriptional co-regulator proteins YAP and TAZ (WWTR1) have emerged as important drivers of tumour initiation, progression and metastasis in melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. YAP/TAZ serve as an essential signalling hub by integrating signals from multiple upstream pathways. In this review, we summarize the roles of YAP/TAZ in skin physiology and tumorigenesis and discuss recent efforts of therapeutic interventions that target YAP/TAZ in in both preclinical and clinical settings, as well as their prospects for use as skin cancer treatments.
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- Department of Life SciencesUniversity of BathBathUK
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- Department of Life SciencesUniversity of BathBathUK
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- Department of Life SciencesUniversity of BathBathUK,Centre for Therapeutic InnovationUniversity of BathBathUK
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- Department of Life SciencesUniversity of BathBathUK,Centre for Therapeutic InnovationUniversity of BathBathUK
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Furet P, Bordas V, Le Douget M, Salem B, Mesrouze Y, Imbach-Weese P, Sellner H, Voegtle M, Soldermann N, Chapeau E, Wartmann M, Scheufler C, Fernandez C, Kallen J, Guagnano V, Chène P, Schmelzle T. The First Class of Small Molecules Potently Disrupting the YAP-TEAD Interaction by Direct Competition. ChemMedChem 2022; 17:e202200303. [PMID: 35950546 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.202200303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Revised: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Inhibition of the YAP-TEAD protein protein interaction is an attractive therapeutic concept under intense investigation with the objective to treat cancers associated with a dysregulation of the Hippo pathway. However, owing to the very extended surface of interaction of the two proteins, the identification of small drug-like molecules able to efficiently prevent YAP from binding to TEAD by direct competition has been elusive so far. We disclose here the discovery of the first class of small molecules potently inhibiting the YAP-TEAD interaction by binding at one of the main interaction sites of YAP at the surface of TEAD. These inhibitors, providing a path forward to pharmacological intervention in the Hippo pathway, evolved from a weakly active virtual screening hit advanced to high potency by structure-based design.
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- Pascal Furet
- Novartis Pharma AG, Biomedical Research, 4002, Basel, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, GDC, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, GDC, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, ODD, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, GDC, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, GDC, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, ODD, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, ODD, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, CBT, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, CBT, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, GDC, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, ODD, SWITZERLAND
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- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Basel, ODD, SWITZERLAND
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Kastan NR, Oak S, Liang R, Baxt L, Myers RW, Ginn J, Liverton N, Huggins DJ, Pichardo J, Paul M, Carroll TS, Nagiel A, Gnedeva K, Hudspeth AJ. Development of an improved inhibitor of Lats kinases to promote regeneration of mammalian organs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2206113119. [PMID: 35867764 PMCID: PMC9282237 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206113119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Hippo signaling pathway acts as a brake on regeneration in many tissues. This cascade of kinases culminates in the phosphorylation of the transcriptional cofactors Yap and Taz, whose concentration in the nucleus consequently remains low. Various types of cellular signals can reduce phosphorylation, however, resulting in the accumulation of Yap and Taz in the nucleus and subsequently in mitosis. We earlier identified a small molecule, TRULI, that blocks the final kinases in the pathway, Lats1 and Lats2, and thus elicits proliferation of several cell types that are ordinarily postmitotic and aids regeneration in mammals. In the present study, we present the results of chemical modification of the original compound and demonstrate that a derivative, TDI-011536, is an effective blocker of Lats kinases in vitro at nanomolar concentrations. The compound fosters extensive proliferation in retinal organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Intraperitoneal administration of the substance to mice suppresses Yap phosphorylation for several hours and induces transcriptional activation of Yap target genes in the heart, liver, and skin. Moreover, the compound initiates the proliferation of cardiomyocytes in adult mice following cardiac cryolesions. After further chemical refinement, related compounds might prove useful in protective and regenerative therapies.
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- Nathaniel R. Kastan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY 10021
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- Bioinformatics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065
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- Bioinformatics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065
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- The Vision Center, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027
- The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027
- Roski Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
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- Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065
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Zagiel B, Melnyk P, Cotelle P. Progress with YAP/TAZ-TEAD inhibitors: a patent review (2018-present). Expert Opin Ther Pat 2022; 32:899-912. [PMID: 35768160 DOI: 10.1080/13543776.2022.2096436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The Hippo pathway represents a new opportunity for the treatment of cancer. Overexpression of Yes-associated protein (YAP) or transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) or TEAD has been demonstrated in cancers and YAP mediates resistance to cancer drugs. Since 2018, the potential of this pathway has been illustrated by numerous articles and patents and the first drugs entering in clinical trial phase 1. AREAS COVERED This review is limited to published patent applications that have disclosed direct small-molecule inhibitors of the YAP/TAZ-TEAD interaction. EXPERT OPINION The YAP/TAZ-TEAD transcriptional complex is a promising target for the treatment of cancer. Approximately 30 international patents (used database: Sci-finder, query: TEAD; documents: patents; period: from 2017-January 2022) that disclose TEAD transcriptional inhibitors have been filled since 2018. The mechanism of action is not always described in the patents, we can divide the drugs into three different categories: (i) external TEAD ligands; (ii) non-covalent TEAD ligands of the palmitate pocket; (iii) covalent TEAD ligands, which bind into the palmitate pocket. The first molecules in clinical trial phase 1 are non-covalent TEAD ligands. The selective TEAD ligand have also been patented, published and selectivity could be of great interest for personalized medicine.
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- Benjamin Zagiel
- Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, University of Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille, France
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- Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, University of Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille, France
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- Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, University of Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille, France
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Heinrich T, Peterson C, Schneider R, Garg S, Schwarz D, Gunera J, Seshire A, Kötzner L, Schlesiger S, Musil D, Schilke H, Doerfel B, Diehl P, Böpple P, Lemos AR, Sousa PMF, Freire F, Bandeiras TM, Carswell E, Pearson N, Sirohi S, Hooker M, Trivier E, Broome R, Balsiger A, Crowden A, Dillon C, Wienke D. Optimization of TEAD P-Site Binding Fragment Hit into In Vivo Active Lead MSC-4106. J Med Chem 2022; 65:9206-9229. [PMID: 35763499 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c00403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
The dysregulated Hippo pathway and, consequently, hyperactivity of the transcriptional YAP/TAZ-TEAD complexes is associated with diseases such as cancer. Prevention of YAP/TAZ-TEAD triggered gene transcription is an attractive strategy for therapeutic intervention. The deeply buried and conserved lipidation pocket (P-site) of the TEAD transcription factors is druggable. The discovery and optimization of a P-site binding fragment (1) are described. Utilizing structure-based design, enhancement in target potency was engineered into the hit, capitalizing on the established X-ray structure of TEAD1. The efforts culminated in the optimized in vivo tool MSC-4106, which exhibited desirable potency, mouse pharmacokinetic properties, and in vivo efficacy. In close correlation to compound exposure, the time- and dose-dependent downregulation of a proximal biomarker could be shown.
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- Timo Heinrich
- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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- iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Apartado 12, Oeiras 2781-901, Portugal
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- iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Apartado 12, Oeiras 2781-901, Portugal
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- iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Apartado 12, Oeiras 2781-901, Portugal
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- iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Apartado 12, Oeiras 2781-901, Portugal
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- Cancer Research Horizons, Jonas Webb Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, Jonas Webb Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, Jonas Webb Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, Jonas Webb Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, U.K.,MSD, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, NW1 1AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, 4NW, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, 4NW, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, 4NW, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, 4NW, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, U.K
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- Cancer Research Horizons, 4NW, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, U.K
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- Merck Healthcare KGaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany
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Dupont S, Wickström SA. Mechanical regulation of chromatin and transcription. Nat Rev Genet 2022; 23:624-643. [DOI: 10.1038/s41576-022-00493-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Che K, Pobbati AV, Seavey CN, Fedorov Y, Komar AA, Burtscher A, Ma S, Rubin BP. Aurintricarboxylic acid is a canonical disruptor of the TAZ-TEAD transcriptional complex. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266143. [PMID: 35417479 PMCID: PMC9007350 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Disrupting the formation of the oncogenic YAP/TAZ-TEAD transcriptional complex holds substantial therapeutic potential. However, the three protein interaction interfaces of this complex cannot be easily disrupted using small molecules. Here, we report that the pharmacologically active small molecule aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) acts as a disruptor of the TAZ-TEAD complex. ATA was identified in a high-throughput screen using a TAZ-TEAD AlphaLISA assay that was tailored to identify disruptors of this transcriptional complex. We further used fluorescence polarization assays both to confirm disruption of the TAZ-TEAD complex and to demonstrate that ATA binds to interface 3. We have previously shown that cell-based models that express the oncogenic TAZ-CAMTA1 (TC) fusion protein display enhanced TEAD transcriptional activity because TC functions as an activated form of TAZ. Utilizing cell-based studies and our TC model system, we performed TC/TEAD reporter, RNA-Seq, and qPCR assays and found that ATA inhibits TC/TEAD transcriptional activity. Further, disruption of TC/TEAD and TAZ/TEAD interaction by ATA abrogated anchorage-independent growth, the phenotype most closely linked to dysregulated TAZ/TEAD activity. Therefore, this study demonstrates that ATA is a novel small molecule that has the ability to disrupt the undruggable TAZ-TEAD interface.
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- Kepeng Che
- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Small Molecule Drug Development Core, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Liberelle M, Toulotte F, Renault N, Gelin M, Allemand F, Melnyk P, Guichou JF, Cotelle P. Toward the Design of Ligands Selective for the C-Terminal Domain of TEADs. J Med Chem 2022; 65:5926-5940. [PMID: 35389210 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c00075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The Hippo signaling pathway plays a fundamental role in the control of organ growth, cell proliferation, and stem cell characters. TEADs are the main transcriptional output regulators of the Hippo signaling pathway and bind to YAP and TAZ co-activators. TEAD1-4 are expressed differently, depending on the tissue and developmental level, and can be overexpressed in certain pathologies. TEAD ligands mainly target the internal pocket of the C-terminal domain of TEAD, and the first ligands selective for TEAD1 and TEAD3 have been recently reported. In this paper, we focus on the topographic homology of the TEAD C-terminal domain both externally and in the internal pocket to highlight the possibility of rationally designing ligands selective for one of the TEAD family members. We identified a novel TEAD2-specific pocket and reported its first ligand. Finally, AlphaFold2 models of full-length TEADs suggest TEAD autoregulation and emphasize the importance of the interface 2.
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- Maxime Liberelle
- INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- INSERM, CHU Lille, U-1286 - INFINTE - Institute for Translational Research in Inflammation, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Centre de Biologie Structurale (CBS), CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, F-34090 Montpellier, France
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- Centre de Biologie Structurale (CBS), CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, F-34090 Montpellier, France
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- INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Centre de Biologie Structurale (CBS), CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, F-34090 Montpellier, France
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- INSERM, CHU Lille, UMR-S 1172, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center, Université de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France.,CS 90108, ENSCL-Centrale Lille, F-59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Poloznikov AA, Nikulin SV, Hushpulian DM, Khristichenko AY, Osipyants AI, Asachenko AF, Shurupova OV, Savin SS, Lee SH, Gaisina IN, Thatcher GRJ, Narciso A, Chang EP, Kazakov SV, Krucher N, Tishkov VI, Thomas B, Gazaryan IG. Structure-Activity Relationships and Transcriptomic Analysis of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitors. Antioxidants (Basel) 2022; 11:220. [PMID: 35204103 PMCID: PMC8868400 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11020220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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To evaluate the differences in action of commercially available 2-oxoglutarate mimetics and "branched-tail" oxyquinoline inhibitors of hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase (HIF PHD), the inhibitors' IC50 values in the activation of HIF1 ODD-luciferase reporter were selected for comparative transcriptomics. Structure-activity relationship and computer modeling for the oxyquinoline series of inhibitors led to the identification of novel inhibitors, which were an order of magnitude more active in the reporter assay than roxadustat and vadadustat. Unexpectedly, 2-methyl-substitution in the oxyquinoline core of the best HIF PHD inhibitor was found to be active in the reporter assay and almost equally effective in the pretreatment paradigm of the oxygen-glucose deprivation in vitro model. Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the signaling pathways induced by HIF PHD inhibitors showed high potency of the two novel oxyquinoline inhibitors (#4896-3249 and #5704-0720) at 2 μM concentrations matching the effect of 30 μM roxadustat and 500 μM dimethyl oxalyl glycine in inducing HIF1 and HIF2-linked pathways. The two oxyquinoline inhibitors exerted the same activation of HIF-triggered glycolytic pathways but opposite effects on signaling pathways linked to alternative substrates of HIF PHD 1 and 3, such as p53, NF-κB, and ATF4. This finding can be interpreted as the specificity of the 2-methyl-substitute variant for HIF PHD2.
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- Andrey A. Poloznikov
- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnologies, Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (S.V.N.)
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnologies, Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia; (A.A.P.); (S.V.N.)
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- School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, 690091 Vladivostok, Russia;
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- Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, 117997 Moscow, Russia; (A.Y.K.); (A.I.O.)
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- Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, 117997 Moscow, Russia; (A.Y.K.); (A.I.O.)
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.F.A.); (O.V.S.)
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- A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia; (A.F.A.); (O.V.S.)
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- Department of Chemical Enzymology, Chemistry Faculty, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119192 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.S.); (V.I.T.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and UICentre, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; (S.H.L.); (I.N.G.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and UICentre, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; (S.H.L.); (I.N.G.)
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- Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA;
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- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York, NY 10038, USA; (A.N.); (E.P.C.); (S.V.K.); (N.K.)
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- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York, NY 10038, USA; (A.N.); (E.P.C.); (S.V.K.); (N.K.)
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- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York, NY 10038, USA; (A.N.); (E.P.C.); (S.V.K.); (N.K.)
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- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York, NY 10038, USA; (A.N.); (E.P.C.); (S.V.K.); (N.K.)
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- Department of Chemical Enzymology, Chemistry Faculty, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119192 Moscow, Russia; (S.S.S.); (V.I.T.)
- A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Darby Children’s Research Institute, Departments of Pediatrics, Neuroscience and Drug Discovery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA;
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- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, New York, NY 10038, USA; (A.N.); (E.P.C.); (S.V.K.); (N.K.)
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Hu L, Tao Z, Wu X. Insights into auto- S-fatty acylation: targets, druggability, and inhibitors. RSC Chem Biol 2021; 2:1567-1579. [PMID: 34977571 PMCID: PMC8637764 DOI: 10.1039/d1cb00115a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Posttranslational S-fatty acylation (or S-palmitoylation) modulates protein localization and functions, and has been implicated in neurological, metabolic, and infectious diseases, and cancers. Auto-S-fatty acylation involves reactive cysteine residues in the proteins which directly react with fatty acyl-CoA through thioester transfer reactions, and is the first step in some palmitoyl acyltransferase (PAT)-mediated catalysis reactions. In addition, many structural proteins, transcription factors and adaptor proteins might possess such "enzyme-like" activities and undergo auto-S-fatty acylation upon fatty acyl-CoA binding. Auto-S-fatty acylated proteins represent a new class of potential drug targets, which often harbor lipid-binding hydrophobic pockets and reactive cysteine residues, providing potential binding sites for covalent and non-covalent modulators. Therefore, targeting auto-S-fatty acylation could be a promising avenue to pharmacologically intervene in important cellular signaling pathways. Here, we summarize the recent progress in understanding the regulation and functions of auto-S-fatty acylation in cell signaling and diseases. We highlight the druggability of auto-S-fatty acylated proteins, including PATs and other proteins, with potential in silico and rationalized drug design approaches. We also highlight structural analysis and examples of currently known small molecules targeting auto-S-fatty acylation, to gain insights into targeting this class of proteins, and to expand the "druggable" proteome.
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- Lu Hu
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School 149, 13th St. Charlestown MA 02129 USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School 149, 13th St. Charlestown MA 02129 USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School 149, 13th St. Charlestown MA 02129 USA
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Agrin-Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 axis confers a mechanically competent microenvironment in skin wound healing. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6349. [PMID: 34732729 PMCID: PMC8566503 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26717-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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An orchestrated wound healing program drives skin repair via collective epidermal cell proliferation and migration. However, the molecular determinants of the tissue microenvironment supporting wound healing remain poorly understood. Herein we discover that proteoglycan Agrin is enriched within the early wound-microenvironment and is indispensable for efficient healing. Agrin enhances the mechanoperception of keratinocytes by augmenting their stiffness, traction stress and fluidic velocity fields in retaliation to bulk substrate rigidity. Importantly, Agrin overhauls cytoskeletal architecture via enhancing actomyosin cables upon sensing geometric stress and force following an injury. Moreover, we identify Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 (MMP12) as a downstream effector of Agrin's mechanoperception. We also reveal a promising potential of a recombinant Agrin fragment as a bio-additive material that assimilates optimal mechanobiological and pro-angiogenic parameters by engaging MMP12 in accelerated wound healing. Together, we propose that Agrin-MMP12 pathway integrates a broad range of mechanical stimuli to coordinate a competent skin wound healing niche.
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Recent Therapeutic Approaches to Modulate the Hippo Pathway in Oncology and Regenerative Medicine. Cells 2021; 10:cells10102715. [PMID: 34685695 PMCID: PMC8534579 DOI: 10.3390/cells10102715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The Hippo pathway is an evolutionary conserved signaling network that regulates essential processes such as organ size, cell proliferation, migration, stemness and apoptosis. Alterations in this pathway are commonly found in solid tumors and can lead to hyperproliferation, resistance to chemotherapy, compensation for mKRAS and tumor immune evasion. As the terminal effectors of the Hippo pathway, the transcriptional coactivators YAP1/TAZ and the transcription factors TEAD1–4 present exciting opportunities to pharmacologically modulate the Hippo biology in cancer settings, inflammation and regenerative medicine. This review will provide an overview of the progress and current strategies to directly and indirectly target the YAP1/TAZ protein–protein interaction (PPI) with TEAD1–4 across multiple modalities, with focus on recent small molecules able to selectively bind to TEAD, block its autopalmitoylation and inhibit YAP1/TAZ–TEAD-dependent transcription in cancer.
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Lu T, Li Y, Lu W, Spitters TWGM, Fang X, Wang J, Cai S, Gao J, Zhou Y, Duan Z, Xiong H, Liu L, Li Q, Jiang H, Chen K, Zhou H, Lin H, Feng H, Zhou B, Antos CL, Luo C. Discovery of a subtype-selective, covalent inhibitor against palmitoylation pocket of TEAD3. Acta Pharm Sin B 2021; 11:3206-3219. [PMID: 34729310 PMCID: PMC8546857 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2021.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The TEA domain (TEAD) family proteins (TEAD1‒4) are essential transcription factors that control cell differentiation and organ size in the Hippo pathway. Although the sequences and structures of TEAD family proteins are highly conserved, each TEAD isoform has unique physiological and pathological functions. Therefore, the development and discovery of subtype selective inhibitors for TEAD protein will provide important chemical probes for the TEAD-related function studies in development and diseases. Here, we identified a novel TEAD1/3 covalent inhibitor (DC-TEADin1072) with biochemical IC50 values of 0.61 ± 0.02 and 0.58 ± 0.12 μmol/L against TEAD1 and TEAD3, respectively. Further chemical optimization based on DC-TEAD in 1072 yielded a selective TEAD3 inhibitor DC-TEAD3in03 with the IC50 value of 0.16 ± 0.03 μmol/L, which shows 100-fold selectivity over other TEAD isoforms in activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) assays. In cells, DC-TEAD3in03 showed selective inhibitory effect on TEAD3 in GAL4-TEAD (1–4) reporter assays with the IC50 value of 1.15 μmol/L. When administered to zebrafish juveniles, experiments showed that DC-TEAD3in03 reduced the growth rate of zebrafish caudal fins, indicating the importance of TEAD3 activity in controlling proportional growth of vertebrate appendages.
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Marchal GA, Jouni M, Chiang DY, Pérez-Hernández M, Podliesna S, Yu N, Casini S, Potet F, Veerman CC, Klerk M, Lodder EM, Mengarelli I, Guan K, Vanoye CG, Rothenberg E, Charpentier F, Redon R, George AL, Verkerk AO, Bezzina CR, MacRae CA, Burridge PW, Delmar M, Galjart N, Portero V, Remme CA. Targeting the Microtubule EB1-CLASP2 Complex Modulates Na V1.5 at Intercalated Discs. Circ Res 2021; 129:349-365. [PMID: 34092082 PMCID: PMC8298292 DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.120.318643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Gerard A Marchal
- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (M.J., F.P., C.G.V., A.L.G., P.W.B.)
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.Y.C., C.A.M.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands (N.Y., N.G.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (M.J., F.P., C.G.V., A.L.G., P.W.B.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Department of Medical Biology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (M.K., A.O.V.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (K.G.)
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (M.J., F.P., C.G.V., A.L.G., P.W.B.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology (E.R.), NYU School of Medicine
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du Thorax, Nantes, France (F.C., R.R., V.P.)
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du Thorax, Nantes, France (F.C., R.R., V.P.)
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (M.J., F.P., C.G.V., A.L.G., P.W.B.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
- Department of Medical Biology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (M.K., A.O.V.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.Y.C., C.A.M.)
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (M.J., F.P., C.G.V., A.L.G., P.W.B.)
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- Division of Cardiology (M.P.-H., M.D.), NYU School of Medicine
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands (N.Y., N.G.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
- Université de Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l'institut du Thorax, Nantes, France (F.C., R.R., V.P.)
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- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC - location AMC, The Netherlands (G.A.M., S.P., S.C., C.C.V., E.M.L., I.M., A.O.V., C.R.B., V.P., C.A.R.)
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Mélin L, Abdullayev S, Fnaiche A, Vu V, González Suárez N, Zeng H, Szewczyk MM, Li F, Senisterra G, Allali-Hassani A, Chau I, Dong A, Woo S, Annabi B, Halabelian L, LaPlante SR, Vedadi M, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Santhakumar V, Gagnon A. Development of LM98, a Small-Molecule TEAD Inhibitor Derived from Flufenamic Acid. ChemMedChem 2021; 16:2982-3002. [PMID: 34164919 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.202100432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
The YAP-TEAD transcriptional complex is responsible for the expression of genes that regulate cancer cell growth and proliferation. Dysregulation of the Hippo pathway due to overexpression of TEAD has been reported in a wide range of cancers. Inhibition of TEAD represses the expression of associated genes, demonstrating the value of this transcription factor for the development of novel anti-cancer therapies. We report herein the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of LM98, a flufenamic acid analogue. LM98 shows strong affinity to TEAD, inhibits its autopalmitoylation and reduces the YAP-TEAD transcriptional activity. Binding of LM98 to TEAD was supported by 19 F-NMR studies while co-crystallization experiments confirmed that LM98 is anchored within the palmitic acid pocket of TEAD. LM98 reduces the expression of CTGF and Cyr61, inhibits MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell migration and arrests cell cycling in the S phase during cell division.
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- Léa Mélin
- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Université du Québec, 531 Boulevard des Prairies, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- INRS-Centre Armand Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Université du Québec, 531 Boulevard des Prairies, Laval, QC, H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada.,Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1 A8, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada.,Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1 A8, Canada
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- Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, 101 College St. MaRS South Tower, Toronto, ON, M5G 1 L7, Canada
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- Département de chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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Kastan N, Gnedeva K, Alisch T, Petelski AA, Huggins DJ, Chiaravalli J, Aharanov A, Shakked A, Tzahor E, Nagiel A, Segil N, Hudspeth AJ. Small-molecule inhibition of Lats kinases may promote Yap-dependent proliferation in postmitotic mammalian tissues. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3100. [PMID: 34035288 PMCID: PMC8149661 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23395-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Hippo signaling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that restricts growth and regeneration predominantly by suppressing the activity of the transcriptional coactivator Yap. Using a high-throughput phenotypic screen, we identified a potent and non-toxic activator of Yap. In vitro kinase assays show that the compound acts as an ATP-competitive inhibitor of Lats kinases-the core enzymes in Hippo signaling. The substance prevents Yap phosphorylation and induces proliferation of supporting cells in the murine inner ear, murine cardiomyocytes, and human Müller glia in retinal organoids. RNA sequencing indicates that the inhibitor reversibly activates the expression of transcriptional Yap targets: upon withdrawal, a subset of supporting-cell progeny exits the cell cycle and upregulates genes characteristic of sensory hair cells. Our results suggest that the pharmacological inhibition of Lats kinases may promote initial stages of the proliferative regeneration of hair cells, a process thought to be permanently suppressed in the adult mammalian inner ear.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Proliferation/drug effects
- Cell Proliferation/genetics
- Ependymoglial Cells/cytology
- Ependymoglial Cells/drug effects
- Ependymoglial Cells/metabolism
- HEK293 Cells
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/cytology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism
- Humans
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology
- Myocytes, Cardiac/drug effects
- Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Small Molecule Libraries/pharmacology
- Tumor Suppressor Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- Tumor Suppressor Proteins/metabolism
- YAP-Signaling Proteins
- Mice
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- Nathaniel Kastan
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Bioengineering and Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- High-Throughput Screening Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Surgery Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Vision Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- USC Roski Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA, USA
- Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
- Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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Henley MJ, Koehler AN. Advances in targeting 'undruggable' transcription factors with small molecules. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2021; 20:669-688. [PMID: 34006959 DOI: 10.1038/s41573-021-00199-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer, autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors, TFs have traditionally been considered 'undruggable' by small-molecule ligands due to significant structural disorder and lack of defined small-molecule binding pockets. Renewed interest in the field has been ignited by significant progress in chemical biology approaches to ligand discovery and optimization, especially the advent of targeted protein degradation approaches, along with increasing appreciation of the critical role a limited number of collaborators play in the regulation of key TF effector genes. Here, we review current understanding of TF-mediated gene regulation, discuss successful targeting strategies and highlight ongoing challenges and emerging approaches to address them.
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- Matthew J Henley
- David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Pobbati AV, Rubin BP. Protein-Protein Interaction Disruptors of the YAP/TAZ-TEAD Transcriptional Complex. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25246001. [PMID: 33352993 PMCID: PMC7766469 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25246001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
The identification of protein-protein interaction disruptors (PPIDs) that disrupt the YAP/TAZ-TEAD interaction has gained considerable momentum. Several studies have shown that YAP/TAZ are no longer oncogenic when their interaction with the TEAD family of transcription factors is disrupted. The transcriptional co-regulator YAP (its homolog TAZ) interact with the surface pockets of TEADs. Peptidomimetic modalities like cystine-dense peptides and YAP cyclic and linear peptides exploit surface pockets (interface 2 and interface 3) on TEADs and function as PPIDs. The TEAD surface might pose a challenge for generating an effective small molecule PPID. Interestingly, TEADs also have a central pocket that is distinct from the surface pockets, and which small molecules leverage exclusively to disrupt the YAP/TAZ-TEAD interaction (allosteric PPIDs). Although small molecules that occupy the central pocket belong to diverse classes, they display certain common features. They are flexible, which allows them to adopt a palmitate-like conformation, and they have a predominant hydrophobic portion that contacts several hydrophobic residues and a small hydrophilic portion that faces the central pocket opening. Despite such progress, more selective PPIDs that also display favorable pharmacokinetic properties and show tolerable toxicity profiles are required to evaluate the feasibility of using these PPIDs for cancer therapy.
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- Ajaybabu V. Pobbati
- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Correspondence: (A.V.P.); (B.P.R.); Tel.: +1-216-445-4472 (A.V.P.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Correspondence: (A.V.P.); (B.P.R.); Tel.: +1-216-445-4472 (A.V.P.)
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Kunig VBK, Potowski M, Akbarzadeh M, Klika Škopić M, dos Santos Smith D, Arendt L, Dormuth I, Adihou H, Andlovic B, Karatas H, Shaabani S, Zarganes‐Tzitzikas T, Neochoritis CG, Zhang R, Groves M, Guéret SM, Ottmann C, Rahnenführer J, Fried R, Dömling A, Brunschweiger A. TEAD-YAP Interaction Inhibitors and MDM2 Binders from DNA-Encoded Indole-Focused Ugi Peptidomimetics. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:20338-20342. [PMID: 32537835 PMCID: PMC7689693 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202006280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
DNA-encoded combinatorial synthesis provides efficient and dense coverage of chemical space around privileged molecular structures. The indole side chain of tryptophan plays a prominent role in key, or "hot spot", regions of protein-protein interactions. A DNA-encoded combinatorial peptoid library was designed based on the Ugi four-component reaction by employing tryptophan-mimetic indole side chains to probe the surface of target proteins. Several peptoids were synthesized on a chemically stable hexathymidine adapter oligonucleotide "hexT", encoded by DNA sequences, and substituted by azide-alkyne cycloaddition to yield a library of 8112 molecules. Selection experiments for the tumor-relevant proteins MDM2 and TEAD4 yielded MDM2 binders and a novel class of TEAD-YAP interaction inhibitors that perturbed the expression of a gene under the control of these Hippo pathway effectors.
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- Verena B. K. Kunig
- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 644227DortmundGermany
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 644227DortmundGermany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular PhysiologyDepartment of Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 1144227DortmundGermany
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 644227DortmundGermany
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 644227DortmundGermany
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of StatisticsVogelpothsweg 8744227DortmundGermany
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of StatisticsVogelpothsweg 8744227DortmundGermany
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- Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM)BioPharmaceuticals R&DAstraZeneca43150GothenburgSweden
- AstraZeneca-Max Planck Institute Satellite UnitMax-Planck Institute of Molecular PhysiologyDepartment of Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 1144227DortmundGermany
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- Lead Discovery Center GmbH (Germany)Otto-Hahn-Strasse 1544227DortmundGermany
- Laboratory of Chemical BiologyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular SystemsEindhoven University of TechnologyDen Dolech 25612AZEindhovenThe Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular PhysiologyDepartment of Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 1144227DortmundGermany
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- University of GroningenDrug DesignDeusinglaan 17313AVGroningenThe Netherlands
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- University of GroningenDrug DesignDeusinglaan 17313AVGroningenThe Netherlands
- University of CreteDepartment of Chemistry70013HeraklionGreece
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- University of GroningenDrug DesignDeusinglaan 17313AVGroningenThe Netherlands
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- University of GroningenDrug DesignDeusinglaan 17313AVGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM)BioPharmaceuticals R&DAstraZeneca43150GothenburgSweden
- AstraZeneca-Max Planck Institute Satellite UnitMax-Planck Institute of Molecular PhysiologyDepartment of Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 1144227DortmundGermany
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- Laboratory of Chemical BiologyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular SystemsEindhoven University of TechnologyDen Dolech 25612AZEindhovenThe Netherlands
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of StatisticsVogelpothsweg 8744227DortmundGermany
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of StatisticsVogelpothsweg 8744227DortmundGermany
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- University of GroningenDrug DesignDeusinglaan 17313AVGroningenThe Netherlands
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- TU Dortmund UniversityFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyOtto-Hahn-Strasse 644227DortmundGermany
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Karatas H, Akbarzadeh M, Adihou H, Hahne G, Pobbati AV, Yihui Ng E, Guéret SM, Sievers S, Pahl A, Metz M, Zinken S, Dötsch L, Nowak C, Thavam S, Friese A, Kang C, Hong W, Waldmann H. Discovery of Covalent Inhibitors Targeting the Transcriptional Enhanced Associate Domain Central Pocket. J Med Chem 2020; 63:11972-11989. [PMID: 32907324 PMCID: PMC7586386 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Transcriptional enhanced associate
domain (TEAD) transcription
factors together with coactivators and corepressors modulate the expression
of genes that regulate fundamental processes, such as organogenesis
and cell growth, and elevated TEAD activity is associated with tumorigenesis.
Hence, novel modulators of TEAD and methods for their identification
are in high demand. We describe the development of a new “thiol
conjugation assay” for identification of novel small molecules
that bind to the TEAD central pocket. The assay monitors prevention
of covalent binding of a fluorescence turn-on probe to a cysteine
in the central pocket by small molecules. Screening of a collection
of compounds revealed kojic acid analogues as TEAD inhibitors, which
covalently target the cysteine in the central pocket, block the interaction
with coactivator yes-associated protein with nanomolar apparent IC50 values, and reduce TEAD target gene expression. This methodology
promises to enable new medicinal chemistry programs aimed at the modulation
of TEAD activity.
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- Hacer Karatas
- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, AstraZeneca-Max Planck Institute Satellite Unit, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.,Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, SE-431 83 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, 61 Biopolis Drive, 138673 Singapore, Singapore
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- Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 10 Biopolis Road, Chromos, #05-01, 138670, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical Biology, AstraZeneca-Max Planck Institute Satellite Unit, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.,Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, SE-431 83 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Technical University Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Technical University Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 10 Biopolis Road, Chromos, #05-01, 138670, Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, 61 Biopolis Drive, 138673 Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn Straße 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Technical University Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Straße 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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Kunig VBK, Potowski M, Akbarzadeh M, Klika Škopić M, Santos Smith D, Arendt L, Dormuth I, Adihou H, Andlovic B, Karatas H, Shaabani S, Zarganes‐Tzitzikas T, Neochoritis CG, Zhang R, Groves M, Guéret SM, Ottmann C, Rahnenführer J, Fried R, Dömling A, Brunschweiger A. TEAD–YAP Interaction Inhibitors and MDM2 Binders from DNA‐Encoded Indole‐Focused Ugi Peptidomimetics. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202006280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Verena B. K. Kunig
- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Department of Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Statistics Vogelpothsweg 87 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Statistics Vogelpothsweg 87 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM) BioPharmaceuticals R&D AstraZeneca 43150 Gothenburg Sweden
- AstraZeneca-Max Planck Institute Satellite Unit Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Department of Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- Lead Discovery Center GmbH (Germany) Otto-Hahn-Strasse 15 44227 Dortmund Germany
- Laboratory of Chemical Biology Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems Eindhoven University of Technology Den Dolech 2 5612 AZ Eindhoven The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Department of Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- University of Groningen Drug Design Deusinglaan 1 7313 AV Groningen The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen Drug Design Deusinglaan 1 7313 AV Groningen The Netherlands
- University of Crete Department of Chemistry 70013 Heraklion Greece
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- University of Groningen Drug Design Deusinglaan 1 7313 AV Groningen The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen Drug Design Deusinglaan 1 7313 AV Groningen The Netherlands
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- Medicinal Chemistry, Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM) BioPharmaceuticals R&D AstraZeneca 43150 Gothenburg Sweden
- AstraZeneca-Max Planck Institute Satellite Unit Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Department of Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- Laboratory of Chemical Biology Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems Eindhoven University of Technology Den Dolech 2 5612 AZ Eindhoven The Netherlands
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Statistics Vogelpothsweg 87 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Statistics Vogelpothsweg 87 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- University of Groningen Drug Design Deusinglaan 1 7313 AV Groningen The Netherlands
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- TU Dortmund University Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6 44227 Dortmund Germany
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Pobbati AV, Hong W. A combat with the YAP/TAZ-TEAD oncoproteins for cancer therapy. Theranostics 2020; 10:3622-3635. [PMID: 32206112 PMCID: PMC7069086 DOI: 10.7150/thno.40889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The transcriptional co-regulators YAP and TAZ pair primarily with the TEAD family of transcription factors to elicit a gene expression signature that plays a prominent role in cancer development, progression and metastasis. YAP and TAZ endow cells with various oncogenic traits such that they sustain proliferation, inhibit apoptosis, maintain stemness, respond to mechanical stimuli, engineer metabolism, promote angiogenesis, suppress immune response and develop resistance to therapies. Therefore, inhibiting YAP/TAZ- TEAD is an attractive and viable option for novel cancer therapy. It is exciting to know that many drugs already in the clinic restrict YAP/TAZ activities and several novel YAP/TAZ inhibitors are currently under development. We have classified YAP/TAZ-inhibiting drugs into three groups. Group I drugs act on the upstream regulators that are stimulators of YAP/TAZ activities. Many of the Group I drugs have the potential to be repurposed as YAP/TAZ indirect inhibitors to treat various solid cancers. Group II modalities act directly on YAP/TAZ or TEADs and disrupt their interaction; targeting TEADs has emerged as a novel option to inhibit YAP/TAZ, as TEADs are major mediators of their oncogenic programs. TEADs can also be leveraged on using small molecules to activate YAP/TAZ-dependent gene expression for use in regenerative medicine. Group III drugs focus on targeting one of the oncogenic downstream YAP/TAZ transcriptional target genes. With the right strategy and impetus, it is not far-fetched to expect a repurposed group I drug or a novel group II drug to combat YAP and TAZ in cancers in the near future.
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