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Macrocyclic Inhibitors of HGF-Activating Serine Proteases Overcome Resistance to Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Block Lung Cancer Progression
Damalanka, Vishnu C.,Voss, Jorine J. L. P.,Mahoney, Matthew W.,Primeau, Tina,Li, Shunqiang,Klampfer, Lidija,Janetka, James W.
supporting information, p. 18158 - 18174 (2021/12/27)
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), the ligand for the MET receptor tyrosine kinase, is a tumor-promoting factor that is abundant in the tumor microenvironment. Proteolytic activation of inactive pro-HGF by one or more of the serine endopeptidases matriptase, hepsin, and HGF activator is the rate-limiting step in HGF/MET signaling. Herein, we have rationally designed a novel class of side chain cyclized macrocyclic peptide inhibitors. The new series of cyclic tripeptides has superior metabolic stability and significantly improved pharmacokinetics in mice relative to the corresponding linear peptides. We identified the lead compound VD2173 that potently inhibits matriptase and hepsin, which was tested in parallel alongside the acyclic inhibitor ZFH7116 using both in vitro and in vivo models of lung cancer. We demonstrated that both compounds block pro-HGF activation, abrogate HGF-mediated wound healing, and overcome resistance to EGFR- and MET-targeted therapy in lung cancer models. Furthermore, VD2173 inhibited HGF-dependent growth of lung cancer tumors in mice.
A Click Chemistry Approach Reveals the Chromatin-Dependent Histone H3K36 Deacylase Nature of SIRT7
Wang, Wesley Wei,Angulo-Ibanez, Maria,Lyu, Jie,Kurra, Yadagiri,Tong, Zhen,Wu, Bo,Zhang, Ling,Sharma, Vangmayee,Zhou, Jennifer,Lin, Hening,Gao, Yi Qin,Li, Wei,Chua, Katrin F.,Liu, Wenshe Ray
supporting information, p. 2462 - 2473 (2019/02/14)
Using an engineered pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase mutant together with tRNACUA Pyl, we have genetically encoded N-(7-azidoheptanoyl)-l-lysine (AzHeK) by amber codon in Escherichia coli for recombinant expression of a number of AzHeK-containing histone H3 proteins. We assembled in vitro acyl-nucleosomes from these recombinant acyl-H3 histones. All these acyl-nucleosomes contained an azide functionality that allowed quick click labeling with a strained alkyne dye for in-gel fluorescence analysis. Using these acyl-nucleosomes as substrates and click labeling as a detection method, we systematically investigated chromatin deacylation activities of SIRT7, a class III NAD+-dependent histone deacylase with roles in aging and cancer biology. Besides confirming the previously reported histone H3K18 deacylation activity, our results revealed that SIRT7 has an astonishingly high activity to catalyze deacylation of H3K36 and is also catalytically active to deacylate H3K37. We further demonstrated that this H3K36 deacylation activity is nucleosome dependent and can be significantly enhanced when appending the acyl-nucleosome substrate with a short double-stranded DNA that mimics the bridging DNA between nucleosomes in native chromatin. By overexpressing SIRT7 in human cells, we verified that SIRT7 natively removes acetylation from histone H3K36. Moreover, SIRT7-deficient cells exhibited H3K36 hyperacetylation in whole cell extracts, at rDNA sequences in nucleoli, and at select SIRT7 target loci, demonstrating the physiologic importance of SIRT7 in determining endogenous H3K36 acetylation levels. H3K36 acetylation has been detected at active gene promoters, but little is understood about its regulation and functions. Our findings establish H3K36 as a physiologic substrate of SIRT7 and implicate this modification in potential SIRT7 pathways in heterochromatin silencing and genomic stability.
A Versatile Approach for Site-Specific Lysine Acylation in Proteins
Wang, Zhipeng A.,Kurra, Yadagiri,Wang, Xin,Zeng, Yu,Lee, Yan-Jiun,Sharma, Vangmayee,Lin, Hening,Dai, Susie Y.,Liu, Wenshe R.
supporting information, p. 1643 - 1647 (2017/02/05)
Using amber suppression in coordination with a mutant pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNAPylpair, azidonorleucine is genetically encoded in E. coli. Its genetic incorporation followed by traceless Staudinger ligation with a phosphinothioester allows the convenient synthesis of a protein with a site-specifically installed lysine acylation. By simply changing the phosphinothioester identity, any lysine acylation type could be introduced. Using this approach, we demonstrated that both lysine acetylation and lysine succinylation can be installed selectively in ubiquitin and synthesized histone H3 with succinylation at its K4 position (H3K4su). Using an H3K4su-H4 tetramer as a substrate, we further confirmed that Sirt5 is an active histone desuccinylase. Lysine succinylation is a recently identified post-translational modification. The reported technique makes it possible to explicate regulatory functions of this modification in proteins.
