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Design, synthesis and evaluation of protein disulfide isomerase inhibitors with nitric oxide releasing activity

  • Lin Li
  • , Jian Liu
  • , Yaqi Ding
  • , Zhenxiong Shi
  • , Bo Peng
  • , Naidi Yang
  • , Danqi Hong
  • , Chengwu Zhang
  • , Chuanhao Yao
  • , Jingyan Ge
  • , Wei Huang

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Abstract

Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), a chaperone protein mostly in endoplasmic reticulum, catalyzes disulfide bond breakage, formation, and rearrangement to promote protein folding. PDI is regarded as a new target for treatment of several disorders. Here, based on the combination principle, we report a new PDI reversible modulator 16F16A-NO by replacing the reactive group in a known PDI inhibitor 16F16 with nitric oxide (NO) donor. Using molecular docking experiment, 16F16A-NO could embed into the active cavity of PDI. From newly developed fluorescent assay, 16F16A-NO showed rapid NO release. Furthermore, it is capable to moderately inhibit activity of PDI and S-nitrosylate the protein, indicating by insulin aggregation assay and biotin-switch technique. Finally, it displayed a dose-dependent antiproliferative activity against SH-SY5Y and HeLa tumor cells. Our designed hybrid compound 16F16A-NO showed a reasonable activity and might offer a promising avenue to develop novel PDI inhibitors for disease treatments.

Original languageEnglish
Article number126898
JournalBioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume30
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2020

Keywords

  • Biotin-switch technique
  • Nitric oxide
  • Protein disulfide isomerase
  • S-nitrosylation

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