Hayward D, Cole P A
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Methods Enzymol. 2016;573:261-78. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.01.020. Epub 2016 Feb 23.
The lysine-specific demethylase (LSD1) is a flavin-dependent amine oxidase that selectively removes one or two methyl groups from histone H3 at the Lys4 position. Along with histone deacetylases 1 and 2, LSD1 is involved in epigenetically silencing gene expression. LSD1 has been implicated as a potential therapeutic target in cancer and other diseases. In this chapter, we discuss several approaches to measure LSD1 demethylase activity and their relative strengths and limitations for inhibitor discovery and mechanistic characterization. In addition, we review the principal established chemical functional groups derived from monoamine oxidase inhibitors that have been investigated in the context of LSD1 as demethylase inhibitors. Finally, we highlight a few examples of recently developed LSD1 mechanism-based inactivators and their biomedical applications.
赖氨酸特异性去甲基化酶(LSD1)是一种黄素依赖性胺氧化酶,可选择性地从组蛋白H3的赖氨酸4位点去除一个或两个甲基基团。LSD1与组蛋白去乙酰化酶1和2一起,参与基因表达的表观遗传沉默。LSD1已被认为是癌症和其他疾病的潜在治疗靶点。在本章中,我们讨论了几种测量LSD1去甲基化酶活性的方法,以及它们在抑制剂发现和机制表征方面的相对优势和局限性。此外,我们回顾了从单胺氧化酶抑制剂衍生而来的主要已确立的化学官能团,这些官能团已在LSD1作为去甲基化酶抑制剂的背景下进行了研究。最后,我们重点介绍了一些最近开发的基于LSD1机制的失活剂及其生物医学应用。