Paralog Specificity Determines Subcellular Distribution, Action Mechanism, and Anticancer Activity of TRAP1 Inhibitors

Hye Kyung Park, Hanbin Jeong, Eunhwa Ko, Geumwoo Lee, Ji Eun Lee, Sang Kwang Lee, An Jung Lee, Jin Young Im, Sung Hu, Seong Heon Kim, Ji Hoon Lee, Changwook Lee, Soosung Kang, Byoung Heon Kang

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Abstract

Although Hsp90 inhibitors can inhibit multiple tumorigenic pathways in cancer cells, their anticancer activity has been disappointingly modest. However, by forcing Hsp90 inhibitors into the mitochondria with mitochondrial delivery vehicles, they were converted into potent drugs targeting the mitochondrial Hsp90 paralog TRAP1. Here, to improve mitochondrial drug accumulation without using the mitochondrial delivery vehicle, we increased freely available drug concentrations in the cytoplasm by reducing the binding of the drugs to the abundant cytoplasmic Hsp90. After analyzing X-ray cocrystal structures, the purine ring of the Hsp90 inhibitor 2 (BIIB021) was modified to pyrazolopyrimidine scaffolds. One pyrazolopyrimidine, 12b (DN401), bound better to TRAP1 than to Hsp90, inactivated the mitochondrial TRAP1 in vivo, and it exhibited potent anticancer activity. Therefore, the rationale and feasible guidelines for developing 12b can potentially be exploited to design a potent TRAP1 inhibitor.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7569-7578
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume60
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Sep 2017

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the staff of the 5C beamline of the PAL for assistance with synchrotron facilities and the staff of the UNIST-Olympus Biomedical Imaging Center for technical support. This work was supported by the 2015 UNIST Research Fund (1.150098.01), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants funded by MEST (2015R1D1A1A01058016; 2010-0028684; 2016R1A2B2012624), and the Korea Drug Development Fund funded by MSIP, MOTIE, and MOHW (KDDF-201512-02).

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© 2017 American Chemical Society.

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