Aminothiazolone Inhibitors Disrupt the Protein-RNA Interaction of METTL16 and Modulate the m6A RNA Modification.
JACS Au
; 4(4): 1436-1449, 2024 Apr 22.
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ABSTRACT
Targeting RNA-binding and modifying proteins via small molecules to modulate post-transcriptional modifications have emerged as a new frontier for chemical biology and therapeutic research. One such RNA-binding protein that regulates the most prevalent eukaryotic RNA modification, N6-methyladenosine (m6A), is the methyltransferase-like protein 16 (METTL16), which plays an oncogenic role in cancers by cofunctioning with other nucleic acid-binding proteins. To date, no potent small-molecule inhibitor of METTL16 or modulator interfering with the METTL16-RNA interaction has been reported and validated, highlighting the unmet need to develop such small molecules to investigate the METTL16-involved regulatory network. Herein, we described the identification of a series of first-in-class aminothiazolone METTL16 inhibitors via a discovery pipeline that started with a fluorescence-polarization (FP)-based screening. Structural optimization of the initial hit yielded inhibitors, such as compound 45, that showed potent single-digit micromolar inhibition activity against the METTL16-RNA binding. The identified aminothiazolone inhibitors can be useful probes to elucidate the biological function of METTL16 upon perturbation and evaluate the therapeutic potential of METTL16 inhibition via small molecules at the post-transcriptional level.
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