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ACS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 1, Issue 8, Pages 371-375Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ml1000273
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STAT3; dimerization; inhibitor; virtual screening; protein-protein interaction; antitumor
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- National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Japan [06-2]
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The signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is considered to be an attractive therapeutic target for oncology drug development. We identified a N-[2-(1,3,4-oxadiazolyl)]-4-quinolinecarboxamide derivative, STX-0119, as a novel STAT3 dimerization inhibitor by a virtual screen using a customized version of the DOCK4 program with the crystal structure of STAT3 In addition, we used in vitro cell-based assays such as the luciferase reporter gene assay and the fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based STAT3 dimerization assay STX-0119 selectively abrogated the DNA binding activity of STAT3 and suppressed the expression of STAT3-regulated oncoproteins such as c-myc and survivin in cancer cells. In contrast a truncated inactive analogue, STX-0872, did not exhibit those activites, Oral administration of STX-0119 effectively abrogated the growth of human lymphoma cells in a SCC-3 subcutaneous xenograft model without visible toxicity Structure-activity relationships of STX-0119 derivatives were investigated using the docking model of the STAT3-SH2 domain/STX-0119.
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