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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Discovery of Novel Inhibitors Targeting Multi-UDP-hexose Pyrophosphorylases as Anticancer Agents.

Yueqin Yang, Hariprasad Vankayalapati, Manshu Tang, Yingbo Zheng, Yingri Li, Cong Ma, Kent Lai

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yueqin YangDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
Hariprasad VankayalapatiDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah School of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
Manshu TangDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
Yingbo ZhengState Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Yingri LiDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
Cong MaState Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0001-9245-0356
Kent LaiDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
University of Utah · USHong Kong Polytechnic University · HK

Funding

Utah Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR002538 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI HESS, RACHEL, MAJERSIK, JENNIFER JUHL · 2018 to 2022
$26.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002538
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To minimize treatment toxicities, recent anti-cancer research efforts have switched from broad-based chemotherapy to targeted therapy, and emerging data show that altered cellular metabolism in cancerous cells can be exploited as new venues for targeted intervention. In this study, we focused on, among the altered metabolic processes in cancerous cells, altered glycosylation due to its documented roles in cancer tumorigenesis, metastasis and drug resistance. We hypothesize that the enzymes required for the biosynthesis of UDP-hexoses, glycosyl donors for glycan synthesis, could serve as therapeutic targets for cancers. Through structure-based virtual screening and kinetic assay, we identified a drug-like chemical fragment, GAL-012, that inhibit a small family of UDP-hexose pyrophosphorylases-galactose pyro-phosphorylase (GALT), UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGP2) and UDP-

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Drug DiscoveryAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalDose-Response Relationship, DrugEnzyme InhibitorsGene Knockout TechniquesGlycosylationHumansMolecular ConformationMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationMolecular StructurePolysaccharidesUTP-Hexose-1-Phosphate UridylyltransferaseAntineoplastic AgentsEnzyme InhibitorsPolysaccharidesUTP-Hexose-1-Phosphate Uridylyltransferasecancer metabolismfragment-based screeninggalactose-1 phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT)glycosylationmulti-target approachpolypharmacologyUDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGP2)UDP-hexose pyrophosphorylaseUDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase (AGX1/UAP1)

Identifiers

PMID32028604
PMCPMC7038226
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