Journal
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages 3077-3086Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.03.071
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- National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute) [R01CA138544, R01CA172310, R50CA211487]
- Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Professorship
- North Carolina Biotechnology Center (North Carolina Biotechnology Center) [2008-IDG-1010]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) MRI Program [0923097]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0923097] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Histone acetylation is an extensively investigated post-translational modification that plays an important role as an epigenetic regulator. It is controlled by histone acetyl transferases (HATS) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). The overexpression of HDACs and consequent hypoacetylation of histones have been observed in a variety of different diseases, leading to a recent focus of HDACs as attractive drug targets. The natural product largazole is one of the most potent natural HDAC inhibitors discovered so far and a number of largazole analogs have been prepared to define structural requirements for its HDAC inhibitory activity. However, previous structure-activity relationship studies have heavily investigated the macrocycle region of largazole, while there have been only limited efforts to probe the effect of various zinc-binding groups (ZBGs) on HDAC inhibition. Herein, we prepared a series of largazole analogs with various ZBGs and evaluated their HDAC inhibition and cytotoxicity. While none of the analogs tested were as potent or selective as largazole, the Zn2+-binding affinity of each ZBG correlated with HDAC inhibition and cytotoxicity. We expect that our findings will aid in building a deeper understanding of the role of ZBGs in HDAC inhibition as well as provide an important basis for the future development of new largazole analogs with non-thiol ZBGs as novel therapeutics for cancer. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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