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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2021

Gold-Based Pharmacophore Inhibits Intracellular MYC Protein.

Samuel Ofori, Sailajah Gukathasan, Samuel G Awuah

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel OforiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, 505 Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506, USA.
Sailajah GukathasanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, 505 Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506, USA.
Samuel G AwuahDepartment of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, 505 Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4947-7283
University of Kentucky · US

Funding

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Support Grant ECIA SupplementP30CA177558 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI Bernard Mark Evers · 2013 to 2026
$38.3M
Understanding the role of anti-apolipoprotein A-I antibodies in atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseaseP20GM130456 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI M. Ashfaqul Alam · 2020 to 2026
$18.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA177558NIGMS NIH HHS NIH P20 GM130456NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM130456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Direct targeting of intrinsically disordered proteins, including MYC, by small molecules for biomedical applications would resolve a longstanding issue in chemical biology and medicine. Thus, we developed gold-based small-molecule MYC reagents that engage MYC inside cells and modulate MYC transcriptional activity. Lead compounds comprise an affinity ligand and a gold(I) or gold(III) warhead capable of protein chemical modification. Cell-based MYC target engagement studies via CETSA and co-immunoprecipitation reveal specific interaction of compounds with MYC in cells. The lead gold(I) reagent, 1, demonstrates superior cell-killing potential (up to 35-fold) in a MYC-dependent manner when compared to 10058-F4 in cells including the TNBC, MDA-MB-231. Subsequently, 1 suppresses MYC transcription factor activity via functional colorimetric assays, and gene-profiling using whole-cell transcriptomics reveals significant modulation of MYC target genes by 1. These findings point to metal-mediated ligand affinity chemistry (MLAC) based on gold as a promising strategy to develop chemical probes and anticancer therapeutics targeting MYC.

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GoldProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycApoptosisCell Line, TumorGene Expression RegulationLigandsGoldLigandsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycgold complexesligand designlysine modificationMYCprotein-protein interactions

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PMID33275307
PMCPMC8605874
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