Discovery of novel serine palmitoyltransferase inhibitors as cancer therapeutic agents
作者:Takuto Kojima、Yasutomi Asano、Osamu Kurasawa、Yasuhiro Hirata、Naoki Iwamura、Tzu-Tshin Wong、Bunnai Saito、Yuta Tanaka、Ryosuke Arai、Kazuko Yonemori、Yasufumi Miyamoto、Yoji Sagiya、Masahiro Yaguchi、Sachio Shibata、Akio Mizutani、Osamu Sano、Ryutaro Adachi、Yoshinori Satomi、Megumi Hirayama、Kazunobu Aoyama、Yuto Hiura、Atsushi Kiba、Shuji Kitamura、Shinichi Imamura
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2018.04.008
日期:2018.5
We pursued serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT) inhibitors as novel cancer therapeutic agents based on a correlation between SPT inhibition and growth suppression of cancer cells. High-throughput screening and medicinal chemistry efforts led to the identification of structurally diverse SPT inhibitors 4 and 5. Both compounds potently inhibited SPT enzyme and decreased intracellular ceramide content. In addition, they suppressed cell growth of human lung adenocarcinoma HCC4006 and acute promyelocytic leukemia PL-21, and displayed good pharmacokinetic profiles. Reduction of 3-ketodihydrosphingosine, the direct downstream product of SPT, was confirmed under in vivo settings after oral administration of compounds 4 and 5. Their anti-tumor efficacy was observed in a PL-21 xenograft mouse model. These results suggested that SPT inhibitors might have potential to be effective cancer therapeutics. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.