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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 132, Issue 31, Pages 10842-10846Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja102758v
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 AG022941]
- American Chemical Society
- NIH's Initiative for Chemical Genetics
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Structure-based drug design combined with homology modeling techniques were used to develop potent inhibitors of HDAC6 that display superior selectivity for the HDAC6 isozyme compared to other inhibitors. These inhibitors can be assembled in a few synthetic steps, and thus are readily scaled up for in vivo studies. An optimized compound from this series, designated Tubastatin A, was tested in primary cortical neuron cultures in which it was found to induce elevated levels of acetylated a-tubulin, but not histone, consistent with its HDAC6 selectivity. Tubastatin A also conferred dose-dependent protection in primary cortical neuron cultures against glutathione depletion-induced oxidative stress. Importantly, when given alone at all concentrations tested, this hydroxamate-containing HDAC6-selective compound displayed no neuronal toxicity, thus, forecasting the potential application of this agent and its analogues to neurodegenerative conditions.
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