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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2024

Senolysis Enabled by Senescent Cell-Sensitive Bioorthogonal Tetrazine Ligation.

Mengyang Chang, Yue Dong, Hang Xu, Alexis B Cruickshank-Taylor, Jacob S Kozora, Baran Behpour, Wei Wang

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Control of Tetrazine Bioorthogonal Reactivity by Rotaxanation.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  13. Senolytic Prodrugs: A Promising Approach to Enhancing Senescence-Targeting Intervention.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mengyang ChangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
Yue DongDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
Hang XuDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
Alexis B Cruickshank-TaylorDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
Jacob S KozoraDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
Baran BehpourDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
Wei WangDepartments of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona Cancer Center, and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6043-0860
University of Arizona · US

Funding

Design of Fe2+ and H2O2 Induced Proximity Functionalized Imaging Probes for the Control of Cellular FunctionsR01GM130772 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI WANG, WEI · 2019 to 2022
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS 5R01GM130772NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130772
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the clearance of senescent cells has been proven to slow down the aging process and promote anti-cancer chemotherapy, the development of senolytics remains challenging. Herein, we report a senolytic strategy enabled by senescent cell-sensitive bioorthogonal tetrazine ligation. Our design is based on linking dihydrotetrazine (Tz) to a galactose (Gal) moiety that serves both as a recognition moiety for senescence-associated β-galactosidase and a caging group for the control of tetrazine activity. Gal-Tz enables efficient click-release of a fluorescent hemicyanine and doxorubicin from a trans-cyclooctene-caged prodrug to detect and eliminate senescent HeLa and A549 cells over non-senescent counterparts with a 16.44 senolytic index. Furthermore, we leverage the strategy for the selective activation and delivery of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) as senolytics. PROTAC prodrug TCO-ARV-771 can be selectively activated by Gal-Tz and delivered into senescent HeLa and A549 cells to induce the degradation of bromodomain-containing protein 4. Senolytic PROTACs may offer an efficient way for intervention on cell senescence thanks to their unique capacity to degrade target proteins in a sub-stoichiometric and catalytic fashion. The results of this study establish the bioorthogonal tetrazine ligation approach as a viable strategy for selective removal of senescent cells.

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Heterocyclic CompoundsProdrugsCell Line, TumorCellular SenescenceHumansSenotherapeuticsHeterocyclic CompoundsProdrugsSenotherapeuticsBioorthogonal chemistryProdrugSenescenceSenolyticsTetrazine click-release

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PMCPMC11226389
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