Carbohydrate-Small Molecule Hybrids as Lead Compounds Targeting IL-6 Signaling

In the past 25 years, a number of efforts have been made toward the development of small molecule interleukin-6 (IL-6) signaling inhibitors, but none have been approved to date. Monosaccharides are a diverse class of bioactive compounds, but thus far have been unexplored as a scaffold for small molecule IL-6-signaling inhibitor design. Therefore, in this present communication, we combined a structure-based drug design approach with carbohydrate building blocks to design and synthesize novel IL-6-signaling inhibitors targeting glycoprotein 130 (gp130). Of this series of compounds, LS-TG-2P and LS-TF-3P were the top lead compounds, displaying IC50 values of 6.9 and 16 µM against SUM159 cell lines, respectively, while still retaining preferential activity against the IL-6-signaling pathway. The carbohydrate moiety was found to improve activity, as N-unsubstituted triazole analogues of these compounds were found to be less active in vitro compared to the leads themselves. Thus, LS-TG-2P and LS-TF-3P are promising scaffolds for further development and study as IL-6-signaling inhibitors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 28(2023), 2 vom: 09. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schultz, Daniel C [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Tiffany [VerfasserIn]
Booker, Conner [VerfasserIn]
Hyder, Iram [VerfasserIn]
Hanold, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Rubin, Garret [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Yousong [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Jiayuh [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chenglong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents
Carbohydrate
Carbohydrates
Docking
Interleukin-6
Journal Article
Structure-based drug design

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Date Completed 25.01.2023

Date Revised 29.04.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/molecules28020677

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35188453X