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  2. Novel polyamine-based Histone deacetylases-Lysine demethylase 1 dual binding inhibitors

Novel polyamine-based Histone deacetylases-Lysine demethylase 1 dual binding inhibitors

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2018 Apr 1;28(6):1001-1004. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2018.02.034.
Andrea Milelli 1 Chiara Marchetti 2 Eleonora Turrini 3 Elena Catanzaro 3 Roberta Mazzone 4 Daniela Tomaselli 4 Carmela Fimognari 3 Vincenzo Tumiatti 3 Anna Minarini 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d'Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.milelli3@unibo.it.
  • 2 Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Via Belmeloro 6, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
  • 3 Department for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d'Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy.
  • 4 Department of Drug Chemistry and Technologies, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Abstract

Epigenetic modulators Histone deacetylases (HDACs) and Lysine demethylase (LSD1) are validated targets for Anticancer therapy. Both HDAC1/2 and LSD1 are found in association with the repressor protein CoREST in a transcriptional co-repressor complex, which is responsible for gene silencing. Combined modulation of both targets results in a synergistic antiproliferative activity. In the present investigation, we report about the design and synthesis of a series of polyamine-based HDACs-LSD1 dual binding inhibitors obtained by coupling Vorinostat and Tranylcypromine. Compound 4 emerged as the most promising of the synthesized series, showing good inhibitory activity towards HDAC1 and LSD1 either in vitro and in cell-based assay (Ki = 42.52 ± 8.94 nM and IC50 = 3.85 μM, respectively). Furthermore, at 70.0 µM compound 4 induced a more pronounced cytotoxic effect than Vorinostat (68.6% vs 56.6% of dead cells) in MCF7 Cancer cell line.

Keywords

Dual-binding agents; Epigenetics; Histone deacetylase inhibitors; Lysine demethylase inhibitors; Polyamines.

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