Matias-Barrios Victor M, Radaeva Mariia, Song Yi, Alperstein Zaccary, Lee Ahn R, Schmitt Veronika, Lee Joseph, Ban Fuqiang, Xie Ning, Qi Jianfei, Lallous Nada, Gleave Martin E, Cherkasov Artem, Dong Xuesen
The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Department of Geriatrics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Front Oncol. 2021 Feb 1;10:633142. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.633142. eCollection 2020.
Poison inhibitors of DNA topoisomerase II (TOP2) are clinically used drugs that cause cancer cell death by inducing DNA damage, which mechanism of action is also associated with serious side effects such as secondary malignancy and cardiotoxicity. In contrast, TOP2 catalytic inhibitors induce limited DNA damage, have low cytotoxicity, and are effective in suppressing cancer cell proliferation. They have been sought after to be prospective anticancer therapies. Herein the discovery of new TOP2 catalytic inhibitors is described. A new druggable pocket of TOP2 protein at its DNA binding domain was used as a docking site to virtually screen ~6 million molecules from the ZINC15 library. The lead compound, T60, was characterized to be a catalytic TOP2 inhibitor that binds TOP2 protein and disrupts TOP2 from interacting with DNA, resulting in no DNA cleavage. It has low cytotoxicity, but strongly inhibits cancer cell proliferation and xenograft growth. T60 also inhibits androgen receptor activity and prostate cancer cell growth. These results indicate that T60 is a promising candidate compound that can be further developed into new anticancer drugs.
DNA拓扑异构酶II(TOP2)的中毒性抑制剂是临床使用的药物,通过诱导DNA损伤导致癌细胞死亡,其作用机制也与严重的副作用如继发性恶性肿瘤和心脏毒性有关。相比之下,TOP2催化抑制剂诱导的DNA损伤有限,细胞毒性低,并且在抑制癌细胞增殖方面有效。它们一直被视为有前景的抗癌疗法。本文描述了新的TOP2催化抑制剂的发现。TOP2蛋白在其DNA结合结构域的一个新的可成药口袋被用作对接位点,从ZINC15文库中虚拟筛选了约600万个分子。先导化合物T60被鉴定为一种催化性TOP2抑制剂,它与TOP2蛋白结合并破坏TOP2与DNA的相互作用,导致DNA不发生切割。它具有低细胞毒性,但强烈抑制癌细胞增殖和异种移植瘤生长。T60还抑制雄激素受体活性和前列腺癌细胞生长。这些结果表明,T60是一种有前途的候选化合物,可进一步开发成新的抗癌药物。