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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 47, Issue 27, Pages 6681-6690Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jm049504o
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- NCI NIH HHS [R24 CA95830, P01 CA63536] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR08605] Funding Source: Medline
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AICAR transformylase (5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide transformylase) is a folate-dependent activity of the bifunctional protein ATIC (AICAR transformylase and IMP cyclohydrolase) and is responsible for catalyzing the penultimate step of the de novo purine biosynthetic pathway. As such, AICAR transformylase has been proposed as a potential target for antineoplastic drug design. Virtual screening of the human AICAR transformylase active site by use of AutoDock against the NCI diversity set, a library of compounds with nonredundant pharmacophore profiles, has revealed 44 potential inhibitor candidates. In vitro inhibition assay of 16 soluble compounds from this list revealed that eight compounds with novel scaffolds, relative to the general folate template, had micromolar inhibition. Subsequent extension of docking trials on compounds with similar scaffolds from the entire NCI-3D database has unveiled 11 additional inhibitors that were confirmed by the in vitro inhibition assay. In particular, one compound, NSC30171, had nanomolar inhibition (K-i = 154 nM, IC50 = 600 nM) against AICAR transformylase. These 19 inhibitors serve as novel templates/scaffolds for development of more potent and specific non-folate-based AICAR transformylase inhibitors.
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