Mechanism-Guided Design and Synthesis of a Mitochondria-Targeting Artemisinin Analogue with Enhanced Anticancer Activity

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Understanding the mechanism of action (MOA) of bioactive natural products will guide endeavor to improve their cellular activities. Artemisinin and its derivatives inhibit cancer cell proliferation, yet with much lower efficiencies than their roles in killing malaria parasites. To improve their efficacies on cancer cells, we studied the MOA of artemisinin using chemical proteomics and found that free heme could directly activate artemisinin. We then designed and synthesized a derivative, ART-TPP, which is capable of targeting the drug to mitochondria where free heme is synthesized. Remarkably, ART-TPP exerted more potent inhibition than its parent compound to cancer cells. A clickable probe ART-TPP-Alk was also employed to confirm that the attachment of the TPP group could label more mitochondrial proteins than that for the ART derivative without TPP (AP1). This work shows the importance of MOA study, which enables us to optimize the design of natural drug analogues to improve their biological activities.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:55

Enthalten in:

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 55(2016), 44 vom: 24. Okt., Seite 13770-13774

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Chong-Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jigang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jianbin [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Yew Mun [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Guangxue [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Teck Kwang [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Han-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Qingsong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9RMU91N5K2
Anticancer activity
Antineoplastic Agents
Artemisinin
Artemisinins
Drug delivery
Fluorescent probe
Journal Article
Mitochondria targeting
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Triphenylphosphonium

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Date Completed 28.08.2018

Date Revised 15.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/anie.201607303

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM265049695