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ArticleMolecular cancer therapeutics2012

In silico screening reveals structurally diverse, nanomolar inhibitors of NQO2 that are functionally active in cells and can modulate NF-κB signaling.

Karen A Nolan, Mark S Dunstan, Mary C Caraher, Katherine A Scott, David Leys, Ian J Stratford

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Article in Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Docking Screens for Novel Ligands Conferring New Biology.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2016
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Karen A NolanSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester and Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom.
Mark S Dunstan
Mary C Caraher
Katherine A Scott
David Leys
Ian J Stratford
Cancer Research UK Manchester CentreUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0500366Medical Research Council G0500366(73607)Worldwide Cancer Research 08-0152
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Cancer Institute chemical database has been screened using in silico docking to identify novel nanomolar inhibitors of NRH:quinone oxidoreductase 2 (NQO2). The inhibitors identified from the screen exhibit a diverse range of scaffolds and the structure of one of the inhibitors, NSC13000 cocrystalized with NQO2, has been solved. This has been used to aid the generation of a structure-activity relationship between the computationally derived binding affinity and experimentally measured enzyme inhibitory potency. Many of the compounds are functionally active as inhibitors of NQO2 in cells at nontoxic concentrations. To show this, advantage was taken of the NQO2-mediated toxicity of the chemotherapeutic drug CB1954. The toxicity of this drug is substantially reduced when the function of NQO2 is inhibited, and many of the compounds achieve this in cells at nanomolar concentrations. The NQO2 inhibitors also attenuated TNFα-mediated, NF-кB-driven transcriptional activity. The link between NQO2 and the regulation of NF-кB was confirmed by using short interfering RNA to NQO2 and by the observation that NRH, the cofactor for NQO2 enzyme activity, could regulate NF-кB activity in an NQO2-dependent manner. NF-кB is a potential therapeutic target and this study reveals an underlying mechanism that may be usable for developing new anticancer drugs.

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AnimalsAziridinesBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorFemaleHumansLeukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL PositiveMacrophagesMiceNF-kappa BProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Quinone ReductasesRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipAziridinesBCL2-like 10 proteinNF-kappa BNRH - quinone oxidoreductase2Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Quinone ReductasesRNA, Small InterferingtretazicarTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID22090421
PMCPMC3272422
OpenAlexW2115825656

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