Tapcin, an In Vivo Active Dual Topoisomerase I/II Inhibitor Discovered by Synthetic Bioinformatic Natural Product (Syn-BNP)-Coupled Metagenomics.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 63(17): e202317187, 2024 04 22.
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ABSTRACT
DNA topoisomerases are attractive targets for anticancer agents. Dual topoisomeraseâ
I/II inhibitors are particularly appealing due to their reduced rates of resistance. A number of therapeutically relevant topoisomerase inhibitors are bacterial natural products. Mining the untapped chemical diversity encoded by soil microbiomes presents an opportunity to identify additional natural topoisomerase inhibitors. Here we couple metagenome mining, bioinformatic structure prediction algorithms, and chemical synthesis to produce the dual topoisomerase inhibitor tapcin. Tapcin is a mixed p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA)-thiazole with a rare tri-thiazole substructure and picomolar antiproliferative activity. Tapcin reduced colorectal adenocarcinoma HT-29â
cell proliferation and tumor volume in mouse hollow fiber and xenograft models, respectively. In both studies it showed similar activity to the clinically used topoisomeraseâ
I inhibitor irinotecan. The study suggests that the interrogation of soil microbiomes using synthetic bioinformatic natural product methods has the potential to be a rewarding strategy for identifying potent, biomedically relevant, antiproliferative agents.
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Produtos Biológicos
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Antineoplásicos
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Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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Humans
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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
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2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos