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Monoenomycin: A Simplified Trienomycin A Analogue that Manifests Anticancer Activity.

ABSTRACT: Macrocyclic natural products are a powerful class of lead-like chemical entities. Despite commonly violating Lipinski's "rule of 5", these compounds often demonstrate superior drug-like physicochemical and pharmacokinetic attributes when compared to their acyclic counterparts. However, the elaborate structural architectures of such molecules require rigorous synthetic investigation that complicates analogue development and their application to drug discovery programs. To circumvent these limitations, a conformation-based approach using limited SAR and molecular modeling was implemented to design simplified analogues of trienomycin A, in which the corresponding analogues could be prepared in a succinct manner to rapidly identify essential structural components necessary for biological activity. Trienomycin A is a member of the ansamycin family of natural products that possesses potent anticancer activity. These studies revealed a novel trienomycin A analogue, monoenomycin, which manifests potent anticancer activity.

SUBMITTER: Brandt GE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3230222 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:BackgroundCompound with cancer stem cell (CSC)-suppressing activity is promising for the improvement of lung cancer clinical outcomes. Toward this goal, we discovered the CSC-targeting activity of resveratrol (RES) analog moscatilin (MOS). With slight structural modification from RES, MOS shows dominant cytotoxicity and CSC-suppressive effect.MethodsThree human lung cancer cell lines, namely H23, H292, and A549, were used to compare the effects of RES and MOS. Cell viability and apoptosis were determined by the MTT assay and Hoechst33342/PI double staining. Anti-proliferative activity was determined by colony formation assay and cell cycle analysis. Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) were measured by fluorescence microscopy using DCFH2-DA staining. CSC-rich populations of A549 cells were generated, and CSC markers, and Akt signaling were determined by Western blot analysis and immunofluorescence. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to predict the possible binding of the compound to Akt protein.ResultsIn this study, we evaluated the effects of RES and MOS on lung cancer and its anti-CSC potential. Compared with RES, its analog MOS more effectively inhibited cell viability, colony formation, and induced apoptosis in all lung cancer cell lines (H23, H292, and A549). We further investigated the anti-CSC effects on A549 CSC-rich populations and cancer adherent cells (A549 and H23). MOS possesses the ability to suppress CSC-like phenotype of lung cancer cells more potent than RES. Both MOS and RES repressed lung CSCs by inhibiting the viability, proliferation, and lung CSC-related marker CD133. However, only MOS inhibits the CSC marker CD133 in both CSC-rich population and adherent cells. Mechanistically, MOS exerted its anti-CSC effects by inhibiting Akt and consequently restored the activation of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β) and decreased the pluripotent transcription factors (Sox2 and c-Myc). Thus, MOS inhibits CSC-like properties through the repression of the Akt/GSK-3β/c-Myc pathway. Moreover, the superior inhibitory effects of MOS compared to RES were associated with the improved activation of various mechanism, such as cell cycle arrest at G2/M phase, production of ROS-mediated apoptosis, and inhibition of Akt activation. Notably, the computational analysis confirmed the strong interaction between MOS and Akt protein. MD simulations revealed that the binding between MOS and Akt1 was more stable than RES, with MM/GBSA binding free energy of - 32.8245 kcal/mol at its allosteric site. In addition, MOS interacts with Trp80 and Tyr272, which was a key residue in allosteric inhibitor binding and can potentially alter Akt activity.ConclusionsKnowledge about the effect of MOS as a CSC-targeting compound and its interaction with Akt is important for the development of drugs for the treatment of CSC-driven cancer including lung cancer.

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