Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Covalent Inhibitors of Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) against Human Malignant Glioblastoma

Human malignant glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly invasive and lethal brain tumor. Targeting of integrin downstream signaling mediators in GBM such as focal adhesion kinase (FAK) seems reasonable and recently demonstrated promising results in early clinical studies. Herein, we report the structure-guided development of a series of covalent inhibitors of FAK. These new compounds displayed highly potent inhibitory potency against FAK enzymatic activity with IC50 values in the nanomolar range. Several inhibitors retarded tumor cell growth as assessed by a cell viability assay in multiple human glioblastoma cell lines. They also significantly reduced the rate of U-87 cell migration and delayed the cell cycle progression by stopping cells in the G2/M phase. Furthermore, these inhibitors showed a potent decrease of autophosphorylation of FAK in glioblastoma cells and its downstream effectors Akt and Erk as well as nuclear factor-κB. These data demonstrated that these inhibitors may have the potential to offer a promising new targeted therapy for human glioblastomas.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Journal of medicinal chemistry - 63(2020), 21 vom: 12. Nov., Seite 12707-12724

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yongliang [VerfasserIn]
Tomkiewicz-Raulet, Céline [VerfasserIn]
Dao, Pascal [VerfasserIn]
Lietha, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Yen-Pon, Expédite [VerfasserIn]
Du, Zhiyun [VerfasserIn]
Coumoul, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
Garbay, Christiane [VerfasserIn]
Etheve-Quelquejeu, Mélanie [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Huixiong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

EC 2.7.10.2
Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
Journal Article
NF-kappa B
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 18.12.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01059

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316878383