Evaluation of site-diversified, fully functionalized diazirine probes for chemical proteomic applications
作者:Yan Tan、Songsen Fu、Tao Yang、Yuxin Xie、Guyi Shen、Jie Yan、Yufen Zhao、Feng Ni
DOI:10.1039/d2cc03868d
日期:——
A series of site-diversified, fully functionalized diazirine probes are constructed based on a scaffold shared by several marketed EGFR-targeted drugs. The integrated analysis of protein targets of the site-diversified probe toolkit not only unveils more complete target space and helps suggest false positive targets, but also reveals dynamic events of multi-domain target-ligand interaction.
Pharmacological Targeting of Vacuolar H+-ATPase via Subunit V1G Combats Multidrug-Resistant Cancer
作者:Yuezhou Wang、Lei Zhang、Yanling Wei、Wei Huang、Li Li、An-an Wu、Anahita Dastur、Patricia Greninger、Walter M. Bray、Chen-Song Zhang、Mengqi Li、Wenhua Lian、Zhiyu Hu、Xiaoyong Wang、Gang Liu、Luming Yao、Jih-Hwa Guh、Lanfen Chen、Hong-Rui Wang、Dawang Zhou、Sheng-Cai Lin、Qingyan Xu、Yuemao Shen、Jianming Zhang、Melissa S. Jurica、Cyril H. Benes、Xianming Deng
DOI:10.1016/j.chembiol.2020.06.011
日期:2020.11
Multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer remains a major challenge for the success of chemotherapy. Natural products have been a rich source for the discovery of drugs against MDR cancers. Here, we applied high-throughput cytotoxicity screening of an in-house natural product library against MDR SGC7901NCR cells and identified that the cyclodepsipeptide verucopeptin demonstrated notable antitumor potency. Cytological profiling combined with click chemistry-based proteomics revealed that ATP6V1G directly interacted with verucopeptin. ATP6V1G, a subunit of the vacuolar H+-ATPase (v-ATPase) that has not been previously targeted, was essential for SGC7901NCR cell growth. Verucopeptin exhibited strong inhibition of both v-ATPase activity and mTORC1 signaling, leading to substantial pharmacological efficacy against SGC7901/VCR cell proliferation and tumor growth in vivo. Our results demonstrate that targeting v-ATPase via its V1G subunit constitutes a unique approach for modulating v-ATPase and mTORC1 signaling with great potential for the development of therapeutics against MDR cancers.