Pharmacophore-guided repurposing of fibrates and retinoids as GPR40 allosteric ligands with activity on insulin release

A classical drug repurposing approach was applied to find new putative GPR40 allosteric binders. A two-step computational protocol was set up, based on an initial pharmacophoric-based virtual screening of the DrugBank database of known drugs, followed by docking simulations to confirm the interactions between the prioritised compounds and GPR40. The best-ranked entries showed binding poses comparable to that of TAK-875, a known allosteric agonist of GPR40. Three of them (tazarotenic acid, bezafibrate, and efaproxiral) affect insulin secretion in pancreatic INS-1 832/13 β-cells with EC50 in the nanomolar concentration (5.73, 14.2, and 13.5 nM, respectively). Given the involvement of GPR40 in type 2 diabetes, the new GPR40 modulators represent a promising tool for therapeutic intervention towards this disease. The ability to affect GPR40 was further assessed in human breast cancer MCF-7 cells in which this receptor positively regulates growth activities (EC50 values were 5.6, 21, and 14 nM, respectively).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry - 36(2021), 1 vom: 16. Dez., Seite 377-383

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cione, Erika [VerfasserIn]
Caroleo, Maria Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Kagechika, Hiroyuki [VerfasserIn]
Manetti, Fabrizio [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aniline Compounds
Bezafibrate
Drug repurposing
Efaproxiral
FFAR1 protein, human
Fibric Acids
GPR40
Insulin
Insulin secretion
J81E81G364
Journal Article
Ligands
Pharmacophore model
Propionates
Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
Retinoids
Virtual screening
Y9449Q51XH

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Date Completed 15.06.2021

Date Revised 18.01.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14756366.2020.1864629

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32086975X