1
|
Eggly AS, Otgontseren N, Roberts CB, Alwali AY, Hennigan HE, Parkinson EI. A Diels-Alder probe for discovery of natural products containing furan moieties. Beilstein J Org Chem 2024; 20:1001-1010. [PMID: 38711585 PMCID: PMC11070956 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.88] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024] Open
Abstract
Natural products (NPs) are fantastic sources of inspiration for novel pharmaceuticals, oftentimes showing unique bioactivity against interesting targets. Specifically, NPs containing furan moieties show activity against a variety of diseases including fungal infections, and cancers. However, it is challenging to discover and isolate these small molecules from cell supernatant. The work described herein showcases the development of a molecular probe that can covalently modify furan moieties via a [4 + 2] Diels-Alder cycloaddition, making them easily identifiable on liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The molecular probe, which undergoes this reaction with a variety of furans, was designed with both a UV-tag and a mass tag to enable easy identification. The probe has been tested with a variety of purified furans, including natural products, methylenomycin furan (MMF) hormones, and MMF derivatives. Moreover, the molecular probe has been tested in crude supernatants of various Streptomyces strains and enables identification of MMFs.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Alyssa S Eggly
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Namuunzul Otgontseren
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Carson B Roberts
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Amir Y Alwali
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Haylie E Hennigan
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Nelson S, Harris TJ, Muli CS, Maresch ME, Baker B, Smith C, Neumann C, Trader DJ, Parkinson EI. Discovery and Development of Cyclic Peptide Proteasome Stimulators. Chembiochem 2024; 25:e202300671. [PMID: 38055197 PMCID: PMC10993313 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300671] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
Abstract
The proteasome degrades proteins, which is essential for cellular homeostasis. Ubiquitin independent proteolysis degrades highly disordered and misfolded proteins. A decline of proteasomal activity has been associated with multiple neurodegenerative diseases due to the accumulation of misfolded proteins. In this work, cyclic peptide proteasome stimulators (CyPPSs) that enhance the clearance of misfolded proteins were discovered. In the initial screen of predicted natural products (pNPs), several cyclic peptides were found to stimulate the 20S core particle (20S CP). Development of a robust structural activity relationship led to the identification of potent, cell permeable CyPPSs. In vitro assays revealed that CyPPSs stimulate degradation of highly disordered and misfolded proteins without affecting ordered proteins. Furthermore, using a novel flow-based assay for proteasome activity, several CyPPSs were found to stimulate the 20S CP in cellulo. Overall, this work describes the development of CyPPSs as chemical tools capable of stimulating the proteasome and provides strong support for proteasome stimulation as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Samantha Nelson
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Timothy J. Harris
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California, 92697, United States
| | - Christine S. Muli
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Marianne E. Maresch
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Braden Baker
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Chloe Smith
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Chris Neumann
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| | - Darci J. Trader
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California, 92697, United States
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
| |
Collapse
|
3
|
Alwali AY, Santos D, Aguilar C, Birch A, Rodriguez-Orduña L, Roberts CB, Modi R, Licona-Cassani C, Parkinson EI. Discovery of Streptomyces species CS-62, a novel producer of the Acinetobacter baumannii selective antibiotic factumycin. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2024; 51:kuae014. [PMID: 38632045 PMCID: PMC11066910 DOI: 10.1093/jimb/kuae014] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
Abstract
Narrow-spectrum antibiotics are of great interest given their ability to spare the microbiome and decrease widespread antibiotic resistance compared to broad-spectrum antibiotics. Herein, we screened an in-house library of Actinobacteria strains for selective activity against Acinetobacter baumannii and successfully identified Streptomyces sp. CS-62 as a producer of a natural product with this valuable activity. Analysis of the cultures via high-resolution mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry, followed by comparison with molecules in the Natural Product Atlas and the Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking platform, suggested a novel natural product. Genome mining analysis initially supported the production of a novel kirromycin derivative. Isolation and structure elucidation via mass spectrometry and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) analyses revealed that the active natural product was the known natural product factumycin, exposing omissions and errors in the consulted databases. While public databases are generally very useful for avoiding rediscovery of known molecules, rediscovery remains a problem due to public databases either being incomplete or having errors that result in failed dereplication. Overall, the work describes the ongoing problem of dereplication and the continued need for public database curation.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Amir Y Alwali
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - Diane Santos
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - César Aguilar
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - Audrey Birch
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - Lorena Rodriguez-Orduña
- Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, 64849 Monterrey, México
| | - Carson B Roberts
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - Ramya Modi
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - Cuauhtemoc Licona-Cassani
- Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, 64849 Monterrey, México
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| |
Collapse
|
4
|
Budimir ZL, Patel RS, Eggly A, Evans CN, Rondon-Cordero HM, Adams JJ, Das C, Parkinson EI. Biocatalytic cyclization of small macrolactams by a penicillin-binding protein-type thioesterase. Nat Chem Biol 2024; 20:120-128. [PMID: 38062262 PMCID: PMC10999230 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01495-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
Abstract
Macrocyclic peptides represent promising scaffolds for chemical tools and potential therapeutics. Synthetic methods for peptide macrocyclization are often hampered by C-terminal epimerization and oligomerization, leading to difficult scalability. While chemical strategies to circumvent this issue exist, they often require specific amino acids to be present in the peptide sequence. Herein, we report the characterization of Ulm16, a peptide cyclase belonging to the penicillin-binding protein-type class of thioesterases that catalyze head-to-tail macrolactamization of nonribosmal peptides. Ulm16 efficiently cyclizes various nonnative peptides ranging from 4 to 6 amino acids with catalytic efficiencies of up to 3 × 106 M-1 s-1. Unlike many previously described homologs, Ulm16 tolerates a variety of C- and N-terminal amino acids. The crystal structure of Ulm16, along with modeling of its substrates and site-directed mutagenesis, allows for rationalization of this wide substrate scope. Overall, Ulm16 represents a promising tool for the biocatalytic production of macrocyclic peptides.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
| | - Rishi S Patel
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Alyssa Eggly
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Claudia N Evans
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | | | - Jessica J Adams
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Chittaranjan Das
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
5
|
Benton A, Terwilliger E, Moriarty NM, Liu B, Murphy A, Maluvac H, Shu M, Gartenhaus LE, Janson ND, Pfeffer CM, Utturkar SM, Parkinson EI, Lanman NA, Hanna JA. Target gene regulatory network of miR-497 in angiosarcoma. bioRxiv 2023:2023.09.24.559218. [PMID: 37808715 PMCID: PMC10557590 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.24.559218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
Abstract
Angiosarcoma (AS) is a vascular sarcoma that is highly aggressive and metastatic. Due to its rarity, treatment options for patients are limited, therefore more research is needed to identify possible therapeutic vulnerabilities. We previously found that conditional deletion of Dicer1 drives AS development in mice. Given the role of DICER1 in canonical microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis, this suggests that miRNA loss is important in AS development. After testing miRNAs previously suggested to have a tumor-suppressive role in AS, microRNA-497-5p (miR-497) suppressed cell viability most significantly. We also found that miR-497 overexpression led to significantly reduced cell migration and tumor formation. To understand the mechanism of miR-497 in tumor suppression, we identified clinically relevant target genes using a combination of RNA-sequencing data in an AS cell line, expression data from AS patients, and target prediction algorithms. We validated miR-497 direct regulation of CCND2, CDK6, and VAT1. One of these genes, VAT1, is an understudied protein that has been suggested to promote cell migration and metastasis in other cancers. Indeed, we find that pharmacologic inhibition of VAT1 with the natural product Neocarzilin A reduces AS migration. This work provides insight into the mechanisms of miR-497 and its target genes in AS pathogenesis.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Annaleigh Benton
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Emma Terwilliger
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Noah M. Moriarty
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Bozhi Liu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Ant Murphy
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Hannah Maluvac
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Mae Shu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Lauren E. Gartenhaus
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Nimod D. Janson
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Claire M. Pfeffer
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Sagar M. Utturkar
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Nadia A. Lanman
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| | - Jason A. Hanna
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
- Purdue University Institute for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
| |
Collapse
|
6
|
Wilbanks L, Hennigan HE, Martinez-Brokaw CD, Lakkis H, Thormann S, Eggly AS, Buechel G, Parkinson EI. Synthesis of Gamma-Butyrolactone Hormones Enables Understanding of Natural Product Induction. ACS Chem Biol 2023; 18:1624-1631. [PMID: 37338162 PMCID: PMC10368014 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
Abstract
Bacteria produce natural products (NPs) via biosynthetic gene clusters. Unfortunately, many biosynthetic gene clusters are silent under traditional laboratory conditions. To access novel NPs, a better understanding of their regulation is needed. γ-Butyrolactones, including the A-factor and Streptomyces coelicolor butanolides, SCBs, are a major class of Streptomyces' hormones. Study of these hormones has been limited due to challenges in accessing them in stereochemically pure forms. Herein, we describe an efficient route to (R)-paraconyl alcohol, a key intermediate for these molecules, as well as a biocatalytic method to access the exocyclic hydroxyl group that differentiates A-factor-type from SCB-type hormones. Utilizing these methods, a library of hormones have been synthesized and tested in a green fluorescent protein reporter assay for their ability to relieve repression by the repressor ScbR. This allowed the most quantitative structure-activity relationship of γ-butyrolactones and a cognate repressor to date. Bioinformatics analysis strongly suggests that many other repressors of NP biosynthesis likely bind similar molecules. This efficient, diversifiable synthesis will enable further investigation of the regulation of NP biosynthesis.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Lauren
E. Wilbanks
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Haylie E. Hennigan
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | | | - Hani Lakkis
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Sarah Thormann
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Alyssa S. Eggly
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Grace Buechel
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| |
Collapse
|
7
|
Modi R, McKee N, Zhang N, Alwali A, Nelson S, Lohar A, Ostafe R, Zhang DD, Parkinson EI. Stapled Peptides as Direct Inhibitors of Nrf2-sMAF Transcription Factors. J Med Chem 2023; 66:6184-6192. [PMID: 37097833 PMCID: PMC10184664 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c02037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
Abstract
Nuclear factor erythroid-related 2-factor 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor traditionally thought of as a cellular protector. However, in many cancers, Nrf2 is constitutively activated and correlated with therapeutic resistance. Nrf2 heterodimerizes with small musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma Maf (sMAF) transcription factors, allowing binding to the antioxidant responsive element (ARE) and induction of transcription of Nrf2 target genes. While transcription factors are historically challenging to target, stapled peptides have shown great promise for inhibiting these protein-protein interactions. Herein, we describe the first direct cell-permeable inhibitor of Nrf2/sMAF heterodimerization. N1S is a stapled peptide designed based on AlphaFold predictions of the interactions between Nrf2 and sMAF MafG. A cell-based reporter assay combined with in vitro biophysical assays demonstrates that N1S directly inhibits Nrf2/MafG heterodimerization. N1S treatment decreases the transcription of Nrf2-dependent genes and sensitizes Nrf2-dependent cancer cells to cisplatin. Overall, N1S is a promising lead for the sensitization of Nrf2-addicted cancers.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Ramya Modi
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Nick McKee
- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
| | - Ning Zhang
- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
| | - Amir Alwali
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Samantha Nelson
- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Aditi Lohar
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Raluca Ostafe
- Molecular
Evolution Protein Engineering and Production, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Donna D. Zhang
- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department
of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| |
Collapse
|
8
|
Alwali AY, Parkinson EI. Small molecule inducers of actinobacteria natural product biosynthesis. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 50:kuad019. [PMID: 37587009 PMCID: PMC10549211 DOI: 10.1093/jimb/kuad019] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023]
Abstract
Actinobacteria are a large and diverse group of bacteria that are known to produce a wide range of secondary metabolites, many of which have important biological activities, including antibiotics, anti-cancer agents, and immunosuppressants. The biosynthesis of these compounds is often highly regulated with many natural products (NPs) being produced at very low levels in laboratory settings. Environmental factors, such as small molecule elicitors, can induce the production of secondary metabolites. Specifically, they can increase titers of known NPs as well as enabling discovery of novel NPs typically produced at undetectable levels. These elicitors can be NPs, including antibiotics or hormones, or synthetic compounds. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of small molecule elicitors to induce the production of secondary metabolites from actinobacteria, especially for the discovery of NPs from "silent" biosynthetic gene clusters. This review aims to highlight classes of molecules that induce secondary metabolite production in actinobacteria and to describe the potential mechanisms of induction. ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY This review describes chemical elicitors of actinobacteria natural products described to date and the proposed mechanisms of induction.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Amir Y Alwali
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
| |
Collapse
|
9
|
Parkinson EI, Lakkis HG, Alwali AA, Metcalf MEM, Modi R, Metcalf WW. An Unusual Oxidative Rearrangement Catalyzed by a Divergent Member of the 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase Superfamily during Biosynthesis of Dehydrofosmidomycin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202206173. [PMID: 35588368 PMCID: PMC9296572 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202206173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
The biosynthesis of the natural product dehydrofosmidomycin involves an unusual transformation in which 2-(trimethylamino)ethylphosphonate is rearranged, desaturated and demethylated by the enzyme DfmD, a divergent member of the 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase superfamily. Although other members of this enzyme family catalyze superficially similar transformations, the combination of all three reactions in a single enzyme has not previously been observed. By characterizing the products of in vitro reactions with labeled and unlabeled substrates, we show that DfmD performs this transformation in two steps, with the first involving desaturation of the substrate to form 2-(trimethylamino)vinylphosphonate, and the second involving rearrangement and demethylation to form methyldehydrofosmidomycin. These data reveal significant differences from the desaturation and rearrangement reactions catalyzed by other family members.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Institute for Genomic BiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1206 W. Gregory Dr.UrbanaIL 61801USA
- Department of ChemistryPurdue UniversityHerbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, Room 4103E560 Oval Drive, Box 59West LafayetteIN 47907USA
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular PharmacologyPurdue UniversityHerbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, Room 4103E560 Oval Drive, Box 59West LafayetteIN 47907USA
| | - Hani G. Lakkis
- Department of ChemistryPurdue UniversityHerbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, Room 4103E560 Oval Drive, Box 59West LafayetteIN 47907USA
| | - Amir A. Alwali
- Department of ChemistryPurdue UniversityHerbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, Room 4103E560 Oval Drive, Box 59West LafayetteIN 47907USA
| | - Mary Elizabeth M. Metcalf
- Institute for Genomic BiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1206 W. Gregory Dr.UrbanaIL 61801USA
- Department of MicrobiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B103C&LSL601 S. GoodwinUrbanaIL 61801USA
| | - Ramya Modi
- Department of ChemistryPurdue UniversityHerbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, Room 4103E560 Oval Drive, Box 59West LafayetteIN 47907USA
| | - William W. Metcalf
- Institute for Genomic BiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1206 W. Gregory Dr.UrbanaIL 61801USA
- Department of MicrobiologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B103C&LSL601 S. GoodwinUrbanaIL 61801USA
| |
Collapse
|
10
|
Parkinson EI, Lakkis HG, Alwali AA, Metcalf MEM, Modi R, Metcalf WW. An Unusual Oxidative Rearrangement Catalyzed by a Divergent Member of the 2‐Oxoglutarate‐Dependent Dioxygenase Superfamily during Biosynthesis of Dehydrofosmidomycin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202206173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
| | | | | | | | - Ramya Modi
- Purdue University Chemistry UNITED STATES
| | - William W. Metcalf
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Microbiology 601 S. GoodwinB103 CLSL 61801 Urbana UNITED STATES
| |
Collapse
|
11
|
Hostetler MA, Smith C, Nelson S, Budimir Z, Modi R, Woolsey I, Frerk A, Baker B, Gantt J, Parkinson EI. Synthetic Natural Product Inspired Cyclic Peptides. ACS Chem Biol 2021; 16:2604-2611. [PMID: 34699170 PMCID: PMC8610019 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
![]()
Natural products
are a bountiful source of bioactive molecules.
Unfortunately, discovery of novel bioactive natural products is challenging
due to cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters, low titers, and arduous
purifications. Herein, we describe SNaPP (Synthetic Natural Product
Inspired Cyclic Peptides), a method for identifying
NP-inspired bioactive peptides. SNaPP expedites bioactive molecule
discovery by combining bioinformatics predictions of nonribosomal
peptide synthetases with chemical synthesis of the predicted natural
products (pNPs). SNaPP utilizes a recently discovered cyclase, the
penicillin binding protein-like cyclase, as the lynchpin for the development
of a library of head-to-tail cyclic peptide pNPs. Analysis of 500
biosynthetic gene clusters allowed for identification of 131 novel
pNPs. Fifty-one diverse pNPs were synthesized using solid phase peptide
synthesis and solution-phase cyclization. Antibacterial testing revealed
14 pNPs with antibiotic activity, including activity against multidrug-resistant
Gram-negative bacteria. Overall, SNaPP demonstrates the power of combining
bioinformatics predictions with chemical synthesis to accelerate the
discovery of bioactive molecules.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Matthew A. Hostetler
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Chloe Smith
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Samantha Nelson
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Zachary Budimir
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Ramya Modi
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Ian Woolsey
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Autumn Frerk
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Braden Baker
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Jessica Gantt
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
| |
Collapse
|
12
|
Lundberg AP, Boudreau MW, Selting KA, Chatkewitz LE, Samuelson J, Francis JM, Parkinson EI, Barger AM, Hergenrother PJ, Fan TM. Utilizing feline oral squamous cell carcinoma patients to develop NQO1-targeted therapy. Neoplasia 2021; 23:811-822. [PMID: 34246985 PMCID: PMC8274297 DOI: 10.1016/j.neo.2021.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Developing effective therapies for the treatment of advanced head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remains a major challenge, and there is a limited landscape of effective targeted therapies on the horizon. NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) is a 2-electron reductase that is overexpressed in HNSCC and presents as a promising target for the treatment of HNSCC. Current NQO1-targeted drugs are hindered by their poor oxidative tolerability in human patients, underscoring a need for better preclinical screening for oxidative toxicities for NQO1-bioactivated small molecules. Herein, we describe our work to include felines and feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (FOSCC) patients in the preclinical assessment process to prioritize lead compounds with increased tolerability and efficacy prior to full human translation. Specifically, our data demonstrate that IB-DNQ, an NQO1-targeted small molecule, is well-tolerated in FOSCC patients and shows promising initial efficacy against FOSCC tumors in proof-of-concept single agent and radiotherapy combination cohorts. Furthermore, FOSCC tumors are amenable to evaluating a variety of target-inducible couplet hypotheses, evidenced herein with modulation of NQO1 levels with palliative radiotherapy. The use of felines and their naturally-occurring tumors provide an intriguing, often underutilized tool for preclinical drug development for NQO1-targeted approaches and has broader applications for the evaluation of other anticancer strategies.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Alycen P Lundberg
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Matthew W Boudreau
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Kim A Selting
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Lindsay E Chatkewitz
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Jonathan Samuelson
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Joshua M Francis
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Anne M Barger
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Paul J Hergenrother
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Timothy M Fan
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
13
|
Schorn MA, Verhoeven S, Ridder L, Huber F, Acharya DD, Aksenov AA, Aleti G, Moghaddam JA, Aron AT, Aziz S, Bauermeister A, Bauman KD, Baunach M, Beemelmanns C, Beman JM, Berlanga-Clavero MV, Blacutt AA, Bode HB, Boullie A, Brejnrod A, Bugni TS, Calteau A, Cao L, Carrión VJ, Castelo-Branco R, Chanana S, Chase AB, Chevrette MG, Costa-Lotufo LV, Crawford JM, Currie CR, Cuypers B, Dang T, de Rond T, Demko AM, Dittmann E, Du C, Drozd C, Dujardin JC, Dutton RJ, Edlund A, Fewer DP, Garg N, Gauglitz JM, Gentry EC, Gerwick L, Glukhov E, Gross H, Gugger M, Guillén Matus DG, Helfrich EJN, Hempel BF, Hur JS, Iorio M, Jensen PR, Kang KB, Kaysser L, Kelleher NL, Kim CS, Kim KH, Koester I, König GM, Leao T, Lee SR, Lee YY, Li X, Little JC, Maloney KN, Männle D, Martin H C, McAvoy AC, Metcalf WW, Mohimani H, Molina-Santiago C, Moore BS, Mullowney MW, Muskat M, Nothias LF, O'Neill EC, Parkinson EI, Petras D, Piel J, Pierce EC, Pires K, Reher R, Romero D, Roper MC, Rust M, Saad H, Saenz C, Sanchez LM, Sørensen SJ, Sosio M, Süssmuth RD, Sweeney D, Tahlan K, Thomson RJ, Tobias NJ, Trindade-Silva AE, van Wezel GP, Wang M, Weldon KC, Zhang F, Ziemert N, Duncan KR, Crüsemann M, Rogers S, Dorrestein PC, Medema MH, van der Hooft JJJ. A community resource for paired genomic and metabolomic data mining. Nat Chem Biol 2021; 17:363-368. [PMID: 33589842 PMCID: PMC7987574 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-00724-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
Genomics and metabolomics are widely used to explore specialized metabolite diversity. The Paired Omics Data Platform is a community initiative to systematically document links between metabolome and (meta)genome data, aiding identification of natural product biosynthetic origins and metabolite structures.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Michelle A Schorn
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
| | | | - Lars Ridder
- Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Florian Huber
- Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Deepa D Acharya
- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | - Alexander A Aksenov
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Gajender Aleti
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
| | - Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e.V. Hans-Knöll-Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany
| | - Allegra T Aron
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Saefuddin Aziz
- Pharmaceutical Biology Department, Pharmaceutical Institute, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Microbiology Department, Biology Faculty, Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto, Indonesia
| | - Anelize Bauermeister
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - Katherine D Bauman
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Martin Baunach
- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
| | - Christine Beemelmanns
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e.V. Hans-Knöll-Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany
| | - J Michael Beman
- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
- Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
| | - María Victoria Berlanga-Clavero
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
| | - Alex A Blacutt
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
| | - Helge B Bode
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany
| | - Anne Boullie
- Institut Pasteur, Collection of Cyanobacteria, Paris, France
| | - Asker Brejnrod
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Tim S Bugni
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | - Alexandra Calteau
- Laboratoire d'Analyses Bioinformatiques pour la Génomique et le Métabolisme, Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
| | - Liu Cao
- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Víctor J Carrión
- Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, the Netherlands
| | - Raquel Castelo-Branco
- Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Shaurya Chanana
- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | - Alexander B Chase
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Marc G Chevrette
- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | | | - Jason M Crawford
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
| | - Cameron R Currie
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | - Bart Cuypers
- Adrem Data Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Molecular Parasitology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
| | - Tam Dang
- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Berlin, Germany
| | - Tristan de Rond
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Alyssa M Demko
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Elke Dittmann
- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
| | - Chao Du
- Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Christopher Drozd
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
| | - Jean-Claude Dujardin
- Molecular Parasitology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
| | - Rachel J Dutton
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Anna Edlund
- J. Craig Venter Institute, Genomic Medicine Group, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - David P Fewer
- Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Neha Garg
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Julia M Gauglitz
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Emily C Gentry
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Lena Gerwick
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Evgenia Glukhov
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Harald Gross
- Pharmaceutical Biology Department, Pharmaceutical Institute, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Muriel Gugger
- Institut Pasteur, Collection of Cyanobacteria, Paris, France
| | - Dulce G Guillén Matus
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Eric J N Helfrich
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Benjamin-Florian Hempel
- Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie, Berlin, Germany
- Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapy (BCRT), Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
| | - Jae-Seoun Hur
- Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon National University, Sunchon, Republic of Korea
| | | | - Paul R Jensen
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Kyo Bin Kang
- College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
| | - Leonard Kaysser
- Pharmaceutical Biology Department, Pharmaceutical Institute, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Tübingen, Germany
| | - Neil L Kelleher
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
| | - Chung Sub Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
| | - Ki Hyun Kim
- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
| | - Irina Koester
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Gabriele M König
- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Tiago Leao
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Seoung Rak Lee
- School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
| | - Yi-Yuan Lee
- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Xuanji Li
- Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Jessica C Little
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
| | | | - Daniel Männle
- Pharmaceutical Biology Department, Pharmaceutical Institute, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Tübingen, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Christian Martin H
- Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, Panama, Republic of Panama
| | - Andrew C McAvoy
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Willam W Metcalf
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Hosein Mohimani
- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Carlos Molina-Santiago
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
| | - Bradley S Moore
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | | | - Mitchell Muskat
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Louis-Félix Nothias
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Ellis C O'Neill
- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Daniel Petras
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Jörn Piel
- Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
| | - Emily C Pierce
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Karine Pires
- Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
| | - Raphael Reher
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Diego Romero
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
| | - M Caroline Roper
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
| | - Michael Rust
- Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
| | - Hamada Saad
- Pharmaceutical Biology Department, Pharmaceutical Institute, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Phytochemistry and Plant Systematics Department, Division of Pharmaceutical Industries, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Carmen Saenz
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Laura M Sanchez
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
| | | | | | | | - Douglas Sweeney
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Kapil Tahlan
- Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
| | - Regan J Thomson
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
| | - Nicholas J Tobias
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- LOEWE-Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
| | - Amaro E Trindade-Silva
- Departamento de Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
| | - Gilles P van Wezel
- Microbial Biotechnology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Mingxun Wang
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Kelly C Weldon
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | - Fan Zhang
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| | - Nadine Ziemert
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Tübingen, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Katherine R Duncan
- University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow, UK
| | - Max Crüsemann
- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Simon Rogers
- School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Pieter C Dorrestein
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- Department of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
| | - Marnix H Medema
- Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
| | | |
Collapse
|
14
|
Parkinson EI, Erb A, Eliot AC, Ju KS, Metcalf WW. Fosmidomycin biosynthesis diverges from related phosphonate natural products. Nat Chem Biol 2019; 15:1049-1056. [PMID: 31451762 PMCID: PMC7098449 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0343-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
Abstract
Fosmidomycin and related molecules comprise a family of phosphonate natural products with potent antibacterial, antimalarial and herbicidal activities. To understand the biosynthesis of these compounds, we characterized the fosmidomycin producer, Streptomyces lavendulae, using biochemical and genetic approaches. Surprisingly, we were unable to elicit production of fosmidomycin, instead observing the unsaturated derivative dehydrofosmidomycin, which we showed potently inhibits 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate reductoisomerase and has bioactivity against a number of bacteria. The genes required for dehydrofosmidomycin biosynthesis were established by heterologous expression experiments. Bioinformatics analyses, characterization of intermediates, and in vitro biochemistry show that the biosynthetic pathway involves conversion of a two-carbon phosphonate precursor into the unsaturated three-carbon product via a highly unusual rearrangement reaction, catalyzed by the 2-oxoglutarate dependent dioxygenase DfmD. The required genes and biosynthetic pathway for dehydrofosmidomycin differ substantially from that of the related natural product FR-900098, suggesting that the ability to produce these bioactive molecules arose via convergent evolution.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
| | - Annette Erb
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Andrew C Eliot
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
| | - Kou-San Ju
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Department of Microbiology and the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
| | - William W Metcalf
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. .,Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
15
|
Parkinson EI, Tryon JH, Goering AW, Ju KS, McClure RA, Kemball JD, Zhukovsky S, Labeda DP, Thomson RJ, Kelleher NL, Metcalf WW. Discovery of the Tyrobetaine Natural Products and Their Biosynthetic Gene Cluster via Metabologenomics. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:1029-1037. [PMID: 29510029 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b01089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Natural products (NPs) are a rich source of medicines, but traditional discovery methods are often unsuccessful due to high rates of rediscovery. Genetic approaches for NP discovery are promising, but progress has been slow due to the difficulty of identifying unique biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) and poor gene expression. We previously developed the metabologenomics method, which combines genomic and metabolomic data to discover new NPs and their BGCs. Here, we utilize metabologenomics in combination with molecular networking to discover a novel class of NPs, the tyrobetaines: nonribosomal peptides with an unusual trimethylammonium tyrosine residue. The BGC for this unusual class of compounds was identified using metabologenomics and computational structure prediction data. Heterologous expression confirmed the BGC and suggests an unusual mechanism for trimethylammonium formation. Overall, the discovery of the tyrobetaines shows the great potential of metabologenomics combined with molecular networking and computational structure prediction for identifying interesting biosynthetic reactions and novel NPs.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - James H. Tryon
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - Anthony W. Goering
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - Kou-San Ju
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Ryan A. McClure
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - Jeremy D. Kemball
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Sara Zhukovsky
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - David P. Labeda
- Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research Unit, USDA-ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, Illinois 61604, United States
| | - Regan J. Thomson
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - Neil L. Kelleher
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - William W. Metcalf
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 United States
| |
Collapse
|
16
|
Lee HY, Parkinson EI, Granchi C, Paterni I, Panigrahy D, Seth P, Minutolo F, Hergenrother PJ. Reactive Oxygen Species Synergize To Potently and Selectively Induce Cancer Cell Death. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:1416-1424. [PMID: 28345875 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
A distinctive feature of cancer cells is their elevated levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), a trait that can cause cancer cells to be more sensitive to ROS-inducing agents than normal cells. ROS take several forms, each with different reactivity and downstream consequence. Here we show that simultaneous generation of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide within cancer cells results in significant synergy, potently and selectively causing cancer cell death. In these experiments superoxide is generated using the NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) substrate deoxynyboquinone (DNQ), and hydrogen peroxide is generated using the lactate dehydrogenase A (LDH-A) inhibitor NHI-Glc-2. This combination reduces tumor burden and prolongs survival in a mouse model of lung cancer. These data suggest that simultaneous induction of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide can be a powerful and selective anticancer strategy.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Hyang Yeon Lee
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Carlotta Granchi
- Dipartimento
di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno 33, 56126 Pisa, Italy
| | - Ilaria Paterni
- Dipartimento
di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno 33, 56126 Pisa, Italy
| | | | | | - Filippo Minutolo
- Dipartimento
di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno 33, 56126 Pisa, Italy
| | - Paul J. Hergenrother
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| |
Collapse
|
17
|
Lundberg AP, Francis JM, Pajak M, Parkinson EI, Wycislo KL, Rosol TJ, Brown ME, London CA, Dirikolu L, Hergenrother PJ, Fan TM. Pharmacokinetics and derivation of an anticancer dosing regimen for the novel anti-cancer agent isobutyl-deoxynyboquinone (IB-DNQ), a NQO1 bioactivatable molecule, in the domestic felid species. Invest New Drugs 2016; 35:134-144. [PMID: 27975234 DOI: 10.1007/s10637-016-0414-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Isobutyl-deoxynyboquinone (IB-DNQ) is a selective substrate for NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1), an enzyme overexpressed in many solid tumors. Following activation by NQO1, IB-DNQ participates in a catalytic futile reduction/reoxidation cycle with consequent toxic reactive oxygen species generation within the tumor microenvironment. To elucidate the potential of IB-DNQ to serve as a novel anticancer agent, in vitro studies coupled with in vivo pharmacokinetic and toxicologic investigations in the domestic felid species were conducted to investigate the tractability of IB-DNQ as a translationally applicable anticancer agent. First, using feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) as a comparative cancer model, expressions of NQO1 were characterized in not only human, but also feline OSCC tissue microarrays. Second, IB-DNQ mediated cytotoxicity in three immortalized feline OSCC cell lines were studied under dose-dependent and sequential exposure conditions. Third, the feasibility of administering IB-DNQ at doses predicted to achieve cytotoxic plasma concentrations and biologically relevant durations of exposure were investigated through pharmacokinetic and tolerability studies in healthy research felines. Intravenous administration of IB-DNQ at 1.0-2.0 mg/kg achieved peak plasma concentrations and durations of exposure reaching or exceeding predicted in vitro cytotoxic concentrations. Clinical adverse side effects including ptyalism and tachypnea exhibited during and post-IV infusion of IB-DNQ were transient and tolerable. Additionally, IB-DNQ administration did not produce acute or delayed-onset unacceptable hematologic, non-hematologic, or off-target oxidative toxicities. Collectively, the findings reported here within provide important safety and pharmacokinetic data to support the continued development of IB-DNQ as a novel anticancer strategy for NQO1 expressing cancers.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Alycen P Lundberg
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61802, USA.,Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Anticancer Discovery from Pets to People, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
| | - Joshua M Francis
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Anticancer Discovery from Pets to People, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
| | - Malgorzata Pajak
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61802, USA
| | - Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
| | - Kathryn L Wycislo
- Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61802, USA
| | - Thomas J Rosol
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
| | - Megan E Brown
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
| | - Cheryl A London
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
| | - Levent Dirikolu
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
| | - Paul J Hergenrother
- Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Anticancer Discovery from Pets to People, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
| | - Timothy M Fan
- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61802, USA. .,Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Anticancer Discovery from Pets to People, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
| |
Collapse
|
18
|
Abstract
One of the major goals of cancer therapy is the selective targeting of cancer cells over normal cells. Unfortunately, even with recent advances, the majority of chemotherapeutics still indiscriminately kill all rapidly dividing cells. Although these drugs are effective in certain settings, their inability to specifically target cancer results in significant dose-limiting toxicities. One way to avoid such toxicities is to target an aspect of the cancer cell that is not shared by normal cells. A potential cancer-specific target is the enzyme NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1). NQO1 is a 2-electron reductase responsible for the detoxification of quinones. Its expression is typically quite low in normal tissue, but it has been found to be greatly overexpressed in many types of solid tumors, including lung, breast, pancreatic, and colon cancers. This overexpression is thought to be in response to the higher oxidative stress of the cancer cell, and it is possible that NQO1 contributes to tumor progression. The overexpression of NQO1 and its correlation with poor patient outcome make it an intriguing target. Although some have explored inhibiting NQO1 as an anticancer strategy, this has generally been unsuccessful. A more promising strategy is to utilize NQO1 substrates that are activated upon reduction by NQO1. For example, in principle, reduction of a quinone can result in a hydroquinone that is a DNA alkylator, protein inhibitor, or reduction-oxidation cycler. Although there are many proposed NQO1 substrates, head-to-head assays reveal only two classes of compounds that convincingly induce cancer cell death through NQO1-mediated activation. In this Account, we describe the discovery and development of one of these compounds, the natural product deoxynyboquinone (DNQ), an excellent NQO1 substrate and anticancer agent. A modular synthesis of DNQ was developed that enabled access to the large compound quantities needed to conduct extensive mechanistic evaluations and animal experiments. During these evaluations, we found that DNQ is an outstanding NQO1 substrate that is processed much more efficiently than other putative NQO1 substrates. Importantly, its anticancer activity is strictly dependent on the overexpression of active NQO1. Using previous crystal structures of NQO1, novel DNQ derivatives were designed that are also excellent NQO1 substrates and possess properties that make them more attractive than the parent natural product for translational development. Given their selectivity, potency, outstanding pharmacokinetic properties, and the ready availability of diagnostics to assess NQO1 in patients, DNQ and its derivatives have considerable potential as personalized medicines for the treatment of cancer.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry,
Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Paul J. Hergenrother
- Department of Chemistry,
Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| |
Collapse
|
19
|
Abstract
A major goal of personalized medicine in oncology is the identification of drugs with predictable efficacy based on a specific trait of the cancer cell, as has been demonstrated with gleevec (presence of Bcr-Abl protein), herceptin (Her2 overexpression), and iressa (presence of a specific EGFR mutation). This is a challenging task, as it requires identifying a cellular component that is altered in cancer, but not normal cells, and discovering a compound that specifically interacts with it. The enzyme NQO1 is a potential target for personalized medicine, as it is overexpressed in many solid tumors. In normal cells NQO1 is inducibly expressed, and its major role is to detoxify quinones via bioreduction; however, certain quinones become more toxic after reduction by NQO1, and these compounds have potential as selective anticancer agents. Several quinones of this type have been reported, including mitomycin C, RH1, EO9, streptonigrin, β-lapachone, and deoxynyboquinone (DNQ). However, no unified picture has emerged from these studies, and the key question regarding the relationship between NQO1 processing and anticancer activity remains unanswered. Here, we directly compare these quinones as substrates for NQO1 in vitro, and for their ability to kill cancer cells in culture in an NQO1-dependent manner. We show that DNQ is a superior NQO1 substrate, and we use computationally guided design to create DNQ analogues that have a spectrum of activities with NQO1. Assessment of these compounds definitively establishes a strong relationship between in vitro NQO1 processing and induction of cancer cell death and suggests these compounds are outstanding candidates for selective anticancer therapy.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Joseph S. Bair
- Department of Chemistry, Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Megan Cismesia
- Department of Chemistry, Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Paul J. Hergenrother
- Department of Chemistry, Roger Adams Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| |
Collapse
|
20
|
Granger BA, Jewett IT, Butler JD, Hua B, Knezevic CE, Parkinson EI, Hergenrother PJ, Martin SF. Synthesis of (±)-Actinophyllic Acid and Analogs: Applications of Cascade Reactions and Diverted Total Synthesis. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:12984-6. [DOI: 10.1021/ja4070206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Brett A. Granger
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
| | - Ivan T. Jewett
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
| | - Jeffrey D. Butler
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
| | - Bruce Hua
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
| | - Claire E. Knezevic
- Roger Adams Laboratory, Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Elizabeth I. Parkinson
- Roger Adams Laboratory, Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Paul J. Hergenrother
- Roger Adams Laboratory, Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
| | - Stephen F. Martin
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
| |
Collapse
|
21
|
Huang X, Dong Y, Bey EA, Kilgore JA, Bair JS, Li LS, Patel M, Parkinson EI, Wang Y, Williams NS, Gao J, Hergenrother PJ, Boothman DA. An NQO1 substrate with potent antitumor activity that selectively kills by PARP1-induced programmed necrosis. Cancer Res 2012; 72:3038-47. [PMID: 22532167 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-11-3135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Agents, such as β-lapachone, that target the redox enzyme, NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), to induce programmed necrosis in solid tumors have shown great promise, but more potent tumor-selective compounds are needed. Here, we report that deoxynyboquinone kills a wide spectrum of cancer cells in an NQO1-dependent manner with greater potency than β-lapachone. Deoxynyboquinone lethality relies on NQO1-dependent futile redox cycling that consumes oxygen and generates extensive reactive oxygen species (ROS). Elevated ROS levels cause extensive DNA lesions, PARP1 hyperactivation, and severe NAD+ /ATP depletion that stimulate Ca2+ -dependent programmed necrosis, unique to this new class of NQO1 "bioactivated" drugs. Short-term exposure of NQO1+ cells to deoxynyboquinone was sufficient to trigger cell death, although genetically matched NQO1- cells were unaffected. Moreover, siRNA-mediated NQO1 or PARP1 knockdown spared NQO1+ cells from short-term lethality. Pretreatment of cells with BAPTA-AM (a cytosolic Ca2+ chelator) or catalase (enzymatic H2O2 scavenger) was sufficient to rescue deoxynyboquinone-induced lethality, as noted with β-lapachone. Investigations in vivo showed equivalent antitumor efficacy of deoxynyboquinone to β-lapachone, but at a 6-fold greater potency. PARP1 hyperactivation and dramatic ATP loss were noted in the tumor, but not in the associated normal lung tissue. Our findings offer preclinical proof-of-concept for deoxynyboquinone as a potent chemotherapeutic agent for treatment of a wide spectrum of therapeutically challenging solid tumors, such as pancreatic and lung cancers.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Xiumei Huang
- Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Collapse
|
22
|
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
| | | |
Collapse
|
23
|
Parkinson EI, Jason Hatfield M, Tsurkan L, Hyatt JL, Edwards CC, Hicks LD, Yan B, Potter PM. Requirements for mammalian carboxylesterase inhibition by substituted ethane-1,2-diones. Bioorg Med Chem 2011; 19:4635-43. [PMID: 21733699 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2011.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2011] [Revised: 05/27/2011] [Accepted: 06/02/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
Carboxylesterases (CE) are ubiquitous enzymes found in both human and animal tissues and are responsible for the metabolism of xenobiotics. This includes numerous natural products, as well as a many clinically used drugs. Hence, the activity of these agents is likely dependent upon the levels and location of CE expression. We have recently identified benzil is a potent inhibitor of mammalian CEs, and in this study, we have assessed the ability of analogues of this compound to inhibit these enzymes. Three different classes of molecules were assayed: one containing different atoms vicinal to the carbonyl carbon atom and the benzene ring [PhXC(O)C(O)XPh, where X=CH₂, CHBr, N, S, or O]; a second containing a panel of alkyl 1,2-diones demonstrating increasing alkyl chain length; and a third consisting of a series of 1-phenyl-2-alkyl-1,2-diones. In general, with the former series of molecules, heteroatoms resulted in either loss of inhibitory potency (when X=N), or conversion of the compounds into substrates for the enzymes (when X=S or O). However, the inclusion of a brominated methylene atom resulted in potent CE inhibition. Subsequent analysis with the alkyl diones [RC(O)C(O)R, where R ranged from CH₃ to C₈H₁₇] and 1-phenyl-2-alkyl-1,2-diones [PhC(O)C(O)R where R ranged from CH₃ to C₆H₁₃], demonstrated that the potency of enzyme inhibition directly correlated with the hydrophobicity (clogP) of the molecules. We conclude from these studies that that the inhibitory power of these 1,2-dione derivatives depends primarily upon the hydrophobicity of the R group, but also on the electrophilicity of the carbonyl group.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth I Parkinson
- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Collapse
|