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ArticleScientific reports2016

Intracellular quantitative detection of human thymidylate synthase engagement with an unconventional inhibitor using tetracysteine-diarsenical-probe technology.

Glauco Ponterini, Andrea Martello, Giorgia Pavesi, Angela Lauriola, Rosaria Luciani, Matteo Santucci, Michela Pelà, Gaia Gozzi, Salvatore Pacifico, Remo Guerrini and 3 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Glauco PonteriniUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 183, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Andrea MartelloUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 183, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Giorgia PavesiUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 183, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Angela LauriolaUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Rosaria LucianiUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 183, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Matteo SantucciUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 183, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Michela PelàUniversity of Ferrara, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Via Fossato di Mortara 17-19, Ferrara, 44100, Italy.
Gaia GozziUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Salvatore PacificoUniversity of Ferrara, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Via Fossato di Mortara 17-19, Ferrara, 44100, Italy.
Remo GuerriniUniversity of Ferrara, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Via Fossato di Mortara 17-19, Ferrara, 44100, Italy.
Gaetano MarvertiUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Maria Paola CostiUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 183, Modena, 41125, Italy.
Domenico D'ArcaUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Via Giuseppe Campi 287, Modena, 41125, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Demonstrating a candidate drug's interaction with its target protein in live cells is of pivotal relevance to the successful outcome of the drug discovery process. Although thymidylate synthase (hTS) is an important anticancer target protein, the efficacy of the few anti-hTS drugs currently used in clinical practice is limited by the development of resistance. Hence, there is an intense search for new, unconventional anti-hTS drugs; there are approximately 1600 ongoing clinical trials involving hTS-targeting drugs, both alone and in combination protocols. We recently discovered new, unconventional peptidic inhibitors of hTS that are active against cancer cells and do not result in the overexpression of hTS, which is a known molecular source of resistance. Here, we propose an adaptation of the recently proposed tetracysteine-arsenic-binding-motif technology to detect and quantitatively characterize the engagement of hTS with one such peptidic inhibitor in cell lysates. This new model can be developed into a test for high-throughput screening studies of intracellular target-protein/small-molecule binding.

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Amino Acid MotifsArsenicCatalytic DomainCysteineEnzyme InhibitorsHEK293 CellsHumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein ConformationThymidylate SynthaseArsenicCysteineEnzyme InhibitorsThymidylate Synthase

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