Small-molecule profiling for steroid receptor activity using a universal steroid receptor reporter assay

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A critical step in the development of novel drug candidates for the treatment of steroid related diseases is ensuring the absence of crosstalk with steroid receptors (SRs). Establishing this SR cross-reactivity profile requires multiple reporter assays as each SR associates with its unique enhancer region, a labor intensive and time-consuming approach. To overcome this need for multi-reporter assays, we established a steroid receptor inducible luciferase reporter assay (SRi-Luc) that allows side-by-side examination of agonistic and antagonistic properties of small-molecules on all steroid receptors. This state-of-the-art SRi-Luc consists of a unique alteration of four distinct keto-steroid- and estrogen response elements. As proof of principle, the SRi-Luc assay was used to profile a set of novel designed steroidal 1,2,3-triazoles. These triazolized steroidal compounds were developed via our in-house triazolization methodology, in which an enolizable ketone is converted into a triazolo-fused or -linked analog by treatment with a primary amine or ammonium salt in the presence of 4-nitrophenyl azide. From these designed steroidal 1,2,3-triazoles, six successfully reduced androgen receptor activity by 40 %. Although opted as antiandrogens, their cross-reactivity with other SRs was apparent in our SRi-Luc assay and rendered them unsuited for further antagonist development and clinical use. Overall, the SRi-Luc overcomes the need of multi-reporter assays for the profiling of small-molecules on all SRs. This not only reduces the risk of introducing biases, it as well accelerates early-stage drug discovery when designing particular SR selective (ant)agonists or characterizing off-target effects of lead molecules acting on any drug target.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:217

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The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology - 217(2022) vom: 01. März, Seite 106043

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Eerlings, Roy [VerfasserIn]
Barbakadze, Nana [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Tien [VerfasserIn]
Nadaraia, Nanuli [VerfasserIn]
Smeets, Elien [VerfasserIn]
Moris, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Handle, Florian [VerfasserIn]
El Kharraz, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Devlies, Wout [VerfasserIn]
Voet, Arnout [VerfasserIn]
Dehaen, Wim [VerfasserIn]
Claessens, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Helsen, Christine [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiandrogen
EC 1.13.12.-
Estrogen response element
Journal Article
Luciferase reporter assay
Luciferases
Receptors, Steroid
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Steroid receptor
Steroid response element
Steroids
Triazoles
Triazolization

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Date Completed 18.04.2022

Date Revised 18.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jsbmb.2021.106043

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334390168