Furan-based inhibitors of pyruvate dehydrogenase: SAR study, biochemical evaluation and computational analysis
Suppression of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) is a mechanism for cancer cells to manifest the Warburg effect. However, recent evidence suggests that whether PDHc activity is suppressed or activated depends on the type of cancer. The PDHc E1 subunit (PDH E1) is a thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)-d...
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Published in | Organic & biomolecular chemistry Vol. 21; no. 8; pp. 1755 - 1763 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Royal Soc Chemistry
22.02.2023
Royal Society of Chemistry |
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Summary: | Suppression of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) is a mechanism for cancer cells to manifest the Warburg effect. However, recent evidence suggests that whether PDHc activity is suppressed or activated depends on the type of cancer. The PDHc E1 subunit (PDH E1) is a thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)-dependent enzyme, catalysing the first and rate-limiting step of PDHc; thus, there is a need for selective PDH E1 inhibitors. There is, however, inadequate understanding of the structure-activity relationship (SAR) and a lack of inhibitors specific for mammalian PDH E1. Our group have reported TPP analogues as TPP-competitive inhibitors to study the family of TPP-dependent enzymes. Most of these TPP analogues cannot be used to study PDHc in cells because (a) they inhibit all members of the family and (b) they are membrane-impermeable. Here we report derivatives of thiamine/TPP analogues that identify elements distinctive to PDH E1 for selectivity. Based on our SAR findings, we developed a series of furan-based thiamine analogues as potent, selective and membrane-permeable inhibitors of mammalian PDH E1. We envision that our SAR findings and inhibitors will aid work on using chemical inhibition to understand the oncogenic role of PDHc.
Many neutral derivatives of the furan analogue of thiamine were tested to explore the SAR of the two thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP)-binding pockets and the substrate-binding C2-pocket: the optimum inhibitor bound 77-fold more tightly than TPP. |
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Bibliography: | https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ob02272a Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Methods and results for enzyme assays and computational docking; synthetic methods, compound characterisation and NMR spectra. See DOI ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1477-0520 1477-0539 |
DOI: | 10.1039/d2ob02272a |