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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2013

Exploiting an allosteric binding site of PRMT3 yields potent and selective inhibitors.

Feng Liu, Fengling Li, Anqi Ma, Elena Dobrovetsky, Aiping Dong, Cen Gao, Ilia Korboukh, Jing Liu, David Smil, Peter J Brown and 5 more

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Feng LiuCenter for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Fengling Li
Anqi Ma
Elena Dobrovetsky
Aiping Dong
Cen Gao
Ilia Korboukh
Jing Liu
David Smil
Peter J Brown
Stephen V Frye
Cheryl H Arrowsmith
Matthieu Schapira
Masoud Vedadi
Jian Jin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USStructural Genomics Consortium · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Screening CoreU19MH082441 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CARON, MARC G., ROTH, BRYAN L. · 2007 to 2016
$15.2M
DISCOVERY OF CHEMICAL PROBES FOR METHYL-LYSINE READERSR01GM100919 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI FRYE, STEPHEN VERNON · 2012 to 2019
$2.9M
CIHRNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100919NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH082441Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) play an important role in diverse biological processes. Among the nine known human PRMTs, PRMT3 has been implicated in ribosomal biosynthesis via asymmetric dimethylation of the 40S ribosomal protein S2 and in cancer via interaction with the DAL-1 tumor suppressor protein. However, few selective inhibitors of PRMTs have been discovered. We recently disclosed the first selective PRMT3 inhibitor, which occupies a novel allosteric binding site and is noncompetitive with both the peptide substrate and cofactor. Here we report comprehensive structure-activity relationship studies of this series, which resulted in the discovery of multiple PRMT3 inhibitors with submicromolar potencies. An X-ray crystal structure of compound 14u in complex with PRMT3 confirmed that this inhibitor occupied the same allosteric binding site as our initial lead compound. These studies provide the first experimental evidence that potent and selective inhibitors can be created by exploiting the allosteric binding site of PRMT3.

Indexed as

Allosteric SiteEnzyme InhibitorsHumansInhibitory Concentration 50Protein-Arginine N-MethyltransferasesRibosomal ProteinsStructure-Activity RelationshipThiadiazolesX-Ray Diffractionbenzo-1,2,3-thiadiazoleEnzyme InhibitorsPRMT3 protein, humanProtein-Arginine N-MethyltransferasesRibosomal Proteinsribosomal protein S2Thiadiazoles

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PMID23445220
PMCPMC4319713
OpenAlexW2087405573

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