Chemical Interrogation of FOXO3a Nuclear Translocation Identifies Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinases

Autor: Paolo Pevarello, Milagros Lorenzo, Teresa G. Granda, David Soilan, Sandra Peregrina, María Isabel Albarrán, Obdulia Rabal, Amancio Carnero, Beatriz G. Serelde, Patricia Alfonso, Antonio Cebriá, Plácido A. Ceballos, Julen Oyarzabal, Jesús Fominaya, Ana-Isabel Hernández, James R. Bischoff, Wolfgang Link, Guido Kurz, Oliver Renner
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Popis: 9 páginas, 4 figuras, 1 tabla.
Activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway is one the most frequent genetic events in human cancer. A cell-based imaging assay that monitored the translocation of the Akt effector protein, Forkhead box O (FOXO), from the cytoplasm to the nucleus was employed to screen a collection of 33,992 small molecules. The positive compounds were used to screen kinases known to be involved in FOXO translocation. Pyrazolopyrimidine derivatives were found to be potent FOXO relocators as well as biochemical inhibitors of PI3Kalpha. A combination of virtual screening and molecular modeling led to the development of a structure-activity relationship, which indicated the preferred substituents on the pyrazolopyrimidine scaffold. This leads to the synthesis of ETP-45658, which is a potent and selective inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinases and demonstrates mechanism of action in tumor cell lines and in vivo in treated mice.
This work was supported by funding from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencias e Innovación (Project BIO2006-02432).
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