Epidithiodiketopiperazine as a pharmacophore for protein lysine methyltransferase G9a inhibitors: Reducing cytotoxicity by structural simplification
作者:Shinya Fujishiro、Kosuke Dodo、Eriko Iwasa、Yuou Teng、Yoshihiro Sohtome、Yoshitaka Hamashima、Akihiro Ito、Minoru Yoshida、Mikiko Sodeoka
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.11.087
日期:2013.2
Chaetocin (1), a structurally complex epidithiodiketopiperazine (ETP) alkaloid produced by Chaetomium minutum, is a potent inhibitor of protein lysine methyltransferase G9a, which plays important roles in many biological processes. Here we present our synthetic investigations to identify a simple prototype G9a inhibitor structure based on structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies on chaetocin derivatives. The simple derivative PS-ETP-1 (14) was found to be a potent G9a inhibitor with greatly reduced cytotoxicity. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.