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Chen M, Zhu Z, Wisniewski T, Zhang X, McLaren DG, Weinglass A, Saldanha SA. Label-free LC-MS based assay to characterize small molecule compound binding to cells. SLAS Discov 2022; 27:405-412. [PMID: 36064100 DOI: 10.1016/j.slasd.2022.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Study of small molecule binding to live cells provides important information on the characterization of ligands pharmacologically. Here we developed and validated a label-free, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based cell binding assay, using centrifugation to separate binders from non-binders. This assay was applied to various target classes, with particular emphasis on those for which protein-based binding assay can be difficult to achieve. In one example, to study a G protein coupled receptor (GPCR), we used one antagonist as probe and multiple other antagonists as competitor ligands. Binding of the probe was confirmed to be specific and saturable, reaching a fast equilibrium. Competition binding analysis by titration of five known ligands suggested a good correlation with their inhibition potency. In another example, this assay was applied to an ion channel target with its agonists, of which the determined binding affinity was consistent with functional assays. This versatile method allows quantitative characterization of ligand binding to cell surface expressed targets in a physiologically relevant environment.
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Ackermann TM, Höfner G, Wanner KT. Screening for New Inhibitors of Glycine Transporter 1 and 2 by Means of MS Binding Assays. ChemMedChem 2021; 16:3094-3104. [PMID: 34174033 PMCID: PMC8518836 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.202100408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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A straightforward screening of a compound library comprising 2439 substances for the identification of new inhibitors for the neurotransmitter transporters GlyT1 and GlyT2 is described. Screening and full-scale competition experiments were performed using recently developed GlyT1 and GlyT2 MS Binding Assays. That way for both targets, GlyT1 and GlyT2, ligands were identified, which exhibited affinities (pKi values) in the low micromolar to sub-micromolar range. The majority of these binders exhibit new chemical scaffolds in the class of GlyT1 and GlyT2 inhibitors, which could be of interest for the development of new ligands with improved affinities for the target proteins. Additionally, compounds with excellent fluorescent properties were found for GlyT2, which renders them promising compounds for future fluorescence-based techniques. All in all, this study demonstrates that MS Binding Assays represent a powerful technology platform also well suited for the screening of compound libraries in a highly reliable and effective manner.
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- Thomas M. Ackermann
- Department of Pharmacy – Center for Drug ResearchLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MunichButenandtstraße 781377MunichGermany
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- Department of Pharmacy – Center for Drug ResearchLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MunichButenandtstraße 781377MunichGermany
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- Department of Pharmacy – Center for Drug ResearchLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MunichButenandtstraße 781377MunichGermany
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Khamari L, Pramanik U, Shekhar S, Mohanakumar S, Mukherjee S. Thermal Reversibility and Structural Stability in Lysozyme Induced by Epirubicin Hydrochloride. Langmuir 2021; 37:3456-3466. [PMID: 33703900 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Herein we report the binding interactions between lysozyme (Lyz) and an anthracycline drug, epirubicin hydrochloride (EPR), through an extensive spectroscopic approach at both ensemble average and single molecular resolution. Our steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy reveals that the drug-induced fluorescence quenching of the protein proceeds through a static quenching mechanism. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and steady-state experiments reveal almost similar thermodynamic signatures of the drug-protein interactions. The underlying force that plays pivotal roles in the said interaction is hydrophobic in nature, which is enhanced in the presence of a strong electrolyte (NaCl). Circular dichroism (CD) spectra indicate that there is a marginal increase in the secondary structure of the native protein (α-helical content increases from 26.9 to 31.4% in the presence of 100 μM EPR) upon binding with the drug. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) was used to monitor the changes in structure and conformational dynamics of Lyz upon interaction with EPR. The individual association (Kass = 0.33 × 106 ms-1 M-1) and dissociation (Kdiss = 1.79 ms-1) rate constants and the binding constant (Kb = 1.84 × 105 M-1) values, obtained from fluctuations of fluorescence intensity of the EPR-bound protein, have also been estimated. AutoDock results demonstrate that the drug molecule is encapsulated within the hydrophobic pocket of the protein (in close proximity to both Trp62 and Trp108) and resides ∼20 Å apart from the covalently labelled CPM dye. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) studies proved that the distance between the donor (CPM) and the acceptor (EPR) is ∼22 Å, which is very similar to that obtained from molecular docking analysis (∼20 Å). The system also shows temperature-dependent reversible FRET, which may be used as a thermal sensor for the temperature-sensitive biological systems.
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- Laxmikanta Khamari
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 426 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 426 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 426 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 426 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 426 066, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Li C, Cui Y, Ren J, Zou J, Kuang W, Sun X, Hu X, Yan Y, Ling X. Novel Cells-Based Electrochemical Sensor for Investigating the Interactions of Cancer Cells with Molecules and Screening Multitarget Anticancer Drugs. Anal Chem 2021; 93:1480-1488. [PMID: 33356172 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A novel, effective, and label-free electrochemical sensor was constructed for investigating the interactions between cancer cells and molecules, based on targeted cancer cells immobilized on a bilayer architecture of N-doped graphene-Pt nanoparticles-chitosan (NGR-Pt-CS) and polyaniline (PANI). The interactions between folic acid (FA, positive control) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO, negative control) and the choice of targeted cells, HepG2 and A549 cells, were investigated by measuring the current change of the sensor to [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- before and after interactions, and the binding constants were calculated to be 1.37 × 105 and 1.92 × 105 M-1 by sensing kinetics. Furthermore, 18 main components from Aidi injection (ADI) were studied to screen compounds that have interactions with different targeted cancer cells including HepG2 and A549 cells. The potential target groups of the interactions between screened active compounds and targeted cancer cells were analyzed through computer-aided molecular docking. In this sensing system, molecules did not require electrochemical activity, and different targeted cancer cells could be immobilized on the modified electrode surface, truly reflecting the categories and numbers of targets. Additionally, the proposed sensor specifically circumvented the current paradigm in most cells-based electrochemical sensors for screening drugs, in which the changes in cell behavior induced by drugs are monitored. This study provided a novel, simple, and generally applicable method for exploring the interaction of molecules with cancer cells and screening multitarget drugs.
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- Cong Li
- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China
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Zhou L, Wang Y, Wan Q, Wu F, Barbon J, Dunstan R, Gauld S, Konrad M, Leys L, McCarthy R, Namovic M, Nelson C, Overmeyer G, Perron D, Su Z, Wang L, Westmoreland S, Zhang J, Zhu R, Veldman G. A non-clinical comparative study of IL-23 antibodies in psoriasis. MAbs 2021; 13:1964420. [PMID: 34460338 PMCID: PMC8409790 DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2021.1964420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Four antibodies that inhibit interleukin (IL)-23 are approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. Here, we present non-clinical data comparing ustekinumab, guselkumab, tildrakizumab and risankizumab with regard to thermostability, IL-23 binding affinity, inhibitory-binding mode, in vitro potency and in vivo efficacy. Risankizumab and guselkumab exhibited 5-fold higher affinity for IL-23 and showed more potent inhibition of IL-23 signaling than ustekinumab and tildrakizumab. Risankizumab and guselkumab completely blocked the binding of IL-23 to IL-23Rα as expected, whereas tildrakizumab did not. In vitro, risankizumab and guselkumab blocked the terminal differentiation of TH17 cells in a similar manner, while tildrakizumab had minimal impact on TH17 differentiation. In a human IL-23-induced ear-swelling mouse model, risankizumab and guselkumab were more effective than ustekinumab and tildrakizumab at reducing IL-17, IL-22, and keratinocyte gene expression. Our results indicate that the four clinically approved antibodies targeting IL-23 differ in affinity and binding epitope. These attributes contribute to differences in in vitro potency, receptor interaction inhibition mode and in vivo efficacy in preclinical studies as described in this report, and similarly may affect the clinical performance of these drugs.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/metabolism
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/metabolism
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/pharmacology
- Antibody Affinity
- Binding Sites, Antibody
- Cells, Cultured
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drug Stability
- Epitopes
- Female
- Hot Temperature
- Humans
- Interleukin-23/antagonists & inhibitors
- Interleukin-23/immunology
- Interleukin-23/metabolism
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Protein Denaturation
- Protein Stability
- Psoriasis/drug therapy
- Psoriasis/immunology
- Psoriasis/metabolism
- Th17 Cells/drug effects
- Th17 Cells/immunology
- Th17 Cells/metabolism
- Ustekinumab/immunology
- Ustekinumab/metabolism
- Ustekinumab/pharmacology
- Mice
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- Li Zhou
- Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester
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- Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester
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- Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester
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- Abbvie, North Chicago, USA
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- Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester
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- Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester
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- Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester
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After the first seed concept introduced in the 18th century, different disciplines have attributed different names to dual-functional molecules depending on their application, including bioconjugates, bifunctional compounds, multitargeting molecules, chimeras, hybrids, engineered compounds. However, these engineered constructs share a general structure: a first component that targets a specific cell and a second component that exerts the pharmacological activity. A stable or cleavable linker connects the two modules of a chimera. Herein, we discuss the recent advances in the rapidly expanding field of chimeric molecules leveraging chemical biology concepts. This Perspective is focused on bifunctional compounds in which one component is a lead compound or a drug. In detail, we discuss chemical features of chimeric molecules and their use for targeted delivery and for target engagement studies.
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- Chiara Borsari
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 28, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 103, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 103, 41125 Modena, Italy
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Zheng J, Zhan Q, Jiang L, Xing D, Zhang T, Wong KL. A bioorthogonal time-resolved luminogenic probe for metabolic labelling and imaging of glycans. Inorg Chem Front 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0qi00728e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A terbium complex Tb-1 was demonstrated to undergo bioorthogonal ligation with engineered cell-surface glycans, which results in a much less efficient LRET and a 5-fold increase in long-lived terbium emission with low toxicity.
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- Judun Zheng
- MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science
- College of Biophotonics
- South China Normal University
- Guangzhou 510631
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- Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research
- South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics
- South China Normal University
- Guangzhou
- P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Hong Kong Baptist University
- Kowloon Tong
- P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science
- College of Biophotonics
- South China Normal University
- Guangzhou 510631
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science
- College of Biophotonics
- South China Normal University
- Guangzhou 510631
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- Department of Chemistry
- Hong Kong Baptist University
- Kowloon Tong
- P. R. China
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Daerr M, Pabel J, Höfner G, Mayer P, Wanner KT. Synthesis and biological evaluation of fluorescent GAT-ligands based on meso-substituted BODIPY dyes. Med Chem Res 2020; 29:301-27. [DOI: 10.1007/s00044-019-02483-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The field of chemical biology has introduced several approaches, typically using chemical probes, to measure the direct binding interaction of a small molecule with its biological target in cells. The use of these direct target engagement assays in pharmaceutical development can support mechanism of action hypothesis testing, rank ordering of compounds, and iterative improvements of chemical matter. This Feature Article highlights a newer application of these approaches: the quantification of target engagement in animal models to support late stage preclinical development and the nomination of a drug candidate to clinical trials. Broadly speaking, these efforts can be divided between compounds that covalently and reversibly interact with protein targets; recent examples for both categories are discussed for a range of targets, along with their limitations. New, promising technologies are also highlighted, in addition to the application of target engagement determination to new therapeutic modalities.
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- James E Kath
- Drug Discovery Science and Technology, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064-6101, USA.
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Todorović V, Su Z, Putman CB, Kakavas SJ, Salte KM, McDonald HA, Wetter JB, Paulsboe SE, Sun Q, Gerstein CE, Medina L, Sielaff B, Sadhukhan R, Stockmann H, Richardson PL, Qiu W, Argiriadi MA, Henry RF, Herold JM, Shotwell JB, McGaraughty SP, Honore P, Gopalakrishnan SM, Sun CC, Scott VE. Small Molecule IL-36γ Antagonist as a Novel Therapeutic Approach for Plaque Psoriasis. Sci Rep 2019; 9:9089. [PMID: 31235749 PMCID: PMC6591177 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45626-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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IL-36 cytokines are pro-inflammatory members of the IL-1 family that are upregulated in inflammatory disorders. Specifically, IL-36γ is highly expressed in active psoriatic lesions and can drive pro-inflammatory processes in 3D human skin equivalents supporting a role for this target in skin inflammation. Small molecule antagonists of interleukins have been historically challenging to generate. Nevertheless, we performed a small molecule high-throughput screen to identify IL-36 antagonists using a novel TR-FRET binding assay. Several compounds, including 2-oxypyrimidine containing structural analogs of the marketed endothelin receptor A antagonist Ambrisentan, were identified as hits from the screen. A-552 was identified as a the most potent antagonist of human IL-36γ, but not the closely related family member IL-36α, was capable of attenuating IL-36γ induced responses in mouse and human disease models. Additionally, x-ray crystallography studies identified key amino acid residues in the binding pocket present in human IL-36γ that are absent in human IL-36α. A-552 represents a first-in-class small molecule antagonist of IL-36 signaling that could be used as a chemical tool to further investigate the role of this pathway in inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis.
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- Viktor Todorović
- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA.
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation St., Worcester, MA, 01605, USA
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- AbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation St., Worcester, MA, 01605, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation St., Worcester, MA, 01605, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Bioresearch Center, 381 Plantation St., Worcester, MA, 01605, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Rd., North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA.
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Richardson PL, Marin VL, Koeniger SL, Baranczak A, Wilsbacher JL, Kovar PJ, Bacon-Trusk PE, Cheng M, Hopkins TA, Haman ST, Vasudevan A. Controlling cellular distribution of drugs with permeability modifying moieties. Medchemcomm 2019; 10:974-984. [PMID: 31303996 DOI: 10.1039/c8md00412a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Phenotypic screening provides compounds with very limited target cellular localization data. In order to select the most appropriate target identification methods, determining if a compound acts at the cell-surface or intracellularly can be very valuable. In addition, controlling cell-permeability of targeted therapeutics such as antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and targeted nanoparticle formulations can reduce toxicity from extracellular release of drug in undesired tissues or direct activity in bystander cells. By incorporating highly polar, anionic moieties via short polyethylene glycol linkers into compounds with known intracellular, and cell-surface targets, we have been able to correlate the cellular activity of compounds with their subcellular site of action. For compounds with nuclear (Brd, PARP) or cytosolic (dasatinib, NAMPT) targets, addition of the permeability modifying group (small sulfonic acid, polycarboxylic acid, or a polysulfonated fluorescent dye) results in near complete loss of biological activity in cell-based assays. For cell-surface targets (H3, 5HT1A, β2AR) significant activity was maintained for all conjugates, but the results were more nuanced in that the modifiers impacted binding/activity of the resulting conjugates. Taken together, these results demonstrate that small anionic compounds can be used to control cell-permeability independent of on-target activity and should find utility in guiding target deconvolution studies and controlling drug distribution of targeted therapeutics.
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- Paul L Richardson
- Drug Discovery Science and Technologies , 1 North Waukegan Rd , North Chicago , IL 60064 , USA .
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- Drug Discovery Science and Technologies , 1 North Waukegan Rd , North Chicago , IL 60064 , USA .
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- Drug Discovery Science and Technologies , 1 North Waukegan Rd , North Chicago , IL 60064 , USA .
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- Drug Discovery Science and Technologies , 1 North Waukegan Rd , North Chicago , IL 60064 , USA .
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- Discovery Oncology , AbbVie Inc. , USA
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- Drug Discovery Science and Technologies , 1 North Waukegan Rd , North Chicago , IL 60064 , USA .
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Li N, Zhang W, Lin L, Shah SNA, Li Y, Lin JM. Nongenetically Encoded and Erasable Imaging Strategy for Receptor-Specific Glycans on Live Cells. Anal Chem 2019; 91:2600-2604. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Nan Li
- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway leads to activation of the effector molecule ERK, which controls downstream responses by phosphorylating a variety of substrates, including transcription factors. Crucial insights into the regulation and function of this pathway came from studying embryos in which specific phenotypes arise from aberrant ERK activation. Despite decades of research, several important questions remain to be addressed for deeper understanding of this highly conserved signaling system and its function. Answering these questions will require quantifying the first steps of pathway activation, elucidating the mechanisms of transcriptional interpretation and measuring the quantitative limits of ERK signaling within which the system must operate to avoid developmental defects.
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- Aleena L Patel
- Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Zhou L, Todorovic V, Kakavas S, Sielaff B, Medina L, Wang L, Sadhukhan R, Stockmann H, Richardson PL, DiGiammarino E, Sun C, Scott V. Quantitative ligand and receptor binding studies reveal the mechanism of interleukin-36 (IL-36) pathway activation. J Biol Chem 2017; 293:403-411. [PMID: 29180446 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.805739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
IL-36 cytokines signal through the IL-36 receptor (IL-36R) and a shared subunit, IL-1RAcP (IL-1 receptor accessory protein). The activation mechanism for the IL-36 pathway is proposed to be similar to that of IL-1 in that an IL-36R agonist (IL-36α, IL-36β, or IL-36γ) forms a binary complex with IL-36R, which then recruits IL-1RAcP. Recent studies have shown that IL-36R interacts with IL-1RAcP even in the absence of an agonist. To elucidate the IL-36 activation mechanism, we considered all possible binding events for IL-36 ligands/receptors and examined these events in direct binding assays. Our results indicated that the agonists bind the IL-36R extracellular domain with micromolar affinity but do not detectably bind IL-1RAcP. Using surface plasmon resonance (SPR), we found that IL-1RAcP also does not bind IL-36R when no agonist is present. In the presence of IL-36α, however, IL-1RAcP bound IL-36R strongly. These results suggested that the main pathway to the IL-36R·IL-36α·IL-1RAcP ternary complex is through the IL-36R·IL-36α binary complex, which recruits IL-1RAcP. We could not measure the binding affinity of IL-36R to IL-1RAcP directly, so we engineered a fragment crystallizable-linked construct to induce IL-36R·IL-1RAcP heterodimerization and predicted the binding affinity during a complete thermodynamic cycle to be 74 μm The SPR analysis also indicated that the IL-36R antagonist IL-36Ra binds IL-36R with higher affinity and a much slower off rate than the IL-36R agonists, shedding light on IL-36 pathway inhibition. Our results reveal the landscape of IL-36 ligand and receptor interactions, improving our understanding of IL-36 pathway activation and inhibition.
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Affiliation(s)
- Li Zhou
- From the AbbVie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, Illinois 01605 and
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- From the AbbVie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, Illinois 01605 and
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- From the AbbVie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, Illinois 01605 and
| | - Leyu Wang
- From the AbbVie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, Illinois 01605 and
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