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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 48, Issue 20, Pages 6350-6365Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jm0505009
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA085509] Funding Source: Medline
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The reversible acetylation of histones is critical for regulation of eukaryotic gene expression. The histone deacetylase inhibitors trichostatin (TSA, 1), MS-275 (2) and suberoylanilide, hydroxamic acid (SAHA, 3) arrest growth in transformed cells and in human tumor xenografts. However, 1-3 suffer from lack of specificity among the various HDAC isoforms, prompting us to design and synthesize polyaminohydroxamic acid (PAHA) derivatives 6-21. We felt that PAHAs would be selectively directed to chromatin and associated histones by the positively charged polyamine side chain. At 1 mu M, compounds 12, 15 and 20 inhibited HDAC by 74.86, 59.99 and 73.85%, respectively. Although 20 was a less potent HDAC inhibitor than 1, it was more potent than 2, more effective as an initiator of histone hyperacetylation, and significantly more effective than 2 at re-expressing p21(Waf1) in ML-1 leukemia cells. On the basis of these results, PAHAs 6-21 represent an important new chemical class of HDAC inhibitors.
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