Meidinna Hazna Noor, Shefrin Seyad, Sari Anissa Nofita, Zhang Huayue, Dhanjal Jaspreet Kaur, Kaul Sunil C, Sundar Durai, Wadhwa Renu
AIST-INDIA DAILAB, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.
Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Sep 12;10:918970. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.918970. eCollection 2022.
Mortalin, a heat shock family protein enriched in cancer cells, is known to inactivate tumor suppressor protein p53. Abrogation of mortalin-p53 interaction and reactivation of p53 has been shown to trigger growth arrest/apoptosis in cancer cells and hence, suggested to be useful in cancer therapy. In this premise, we earlier screened a chemical library to identify potential disruptors of mortalin-p53 interaction, and reported two novel synthetic small molecules (5-[1-(4-methoxyphenyl) (1,2,3,4-tetraazol-5-yl)]-4-phenylpyrimidine-2-ylamine) and (4-[(1E)-2-(2-phenylindol-3-yl)-1-azavinyl]-1,2,4-triazole) called Mortaparib and Mortaparib, respectively. These compounds were shown to possess anticancer activity that was mediated through targeting mortalin and PARP1 proteins, essential for cancer cell survival and proliferation. Here, we report characterization of the third compound, {4-[(4-amino-5-thiophen-2-yl-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)sulfanylmethyl]-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-thiazol-2-amine}, isolated in the same screening. Extensive computational and molecular analyses suggested that the new compound has the capability to interact with mortalin, p53, and PARP1. We provide evidence that this new compound, although required in high concentration as compared to the earlier two compounds (Mortaparib and Mortaparib) and hence called Mortaparib, also downregulates mortalin and PARP1 expression and functions in multiple ways impeding cancer cell proliferation and migration characteristics. Mortaparib is a novel candidate anticancer compound that warrants further experimental and clinical attention.
mortalin是一种在癌细胞中富集的热休克家族蛋白,已知它会使肿瘤抑制蛋白p53失活。已证明消除mortalin与p53的相互作用并重新激活p53可触发癌细胞的生长停滞/凋亡,因此,被认为在癌症治疗中有用。在此前提下,我们之前筛选了一个化学文库以鉴定mortalin与p53相互作用的潜在破坏剂,并报道了两种新型合成小分子(5-[1-(4-甲氧基苯基)(1,2,3,4-四唑-5-基)]-4-苯基嘧啶-2-胺)和(4-[(1E)-2-(2-苯基吲哚-3-基)-1-氮杂乙烯基]-1,2,4-三唑),分别称为Mortaparib和Mortaparib。这些化合物显示出具有抗癌活性,其通过靶向对癌细胞存活和增殖至关重要的mortalin和PARP1蛋白来介导。在此,我们报告在同一筛选中分离出的第三种化合物{4-[(4-氨基-5-噻吩-2-基-1,2,4-三唑-3-基)硫烷基甲基]-N-(4-甲氧基苯基)-1,3-噻唑-2-胺}的特性。广泛的计算和分子分析表明,这种新化合物有能力与mortalin、p53和PARP1相互作用。我们提供的证据表明,这种新化合物尽管与前两种化合物(Mortaparib和Mortaparib)相比需要更高的浓度,因此称为Mortaparib,但它也以多种方式下调mortalin和PARP1的表达及功能,从而阻碍癌细胞的增殖和迁移特性。Mortaparib是一种新型抗癌候选化合物,值得进一步的实验和临床关注。