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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
19
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
Microtubule cytoskeletons are involved in many essential functions throughout the life cycle of cells, including transport of materials into cells, cell movement, and proper progression of cell division. Small compounds that can bind at the colchicine site of tubulin have drawn great attention because these agents can suppress or inhibit microtubule dynamics and tubulin polymerization. To find novel tubulin polymerization inhibitors as anti-mitotic agents, we performed a virtual screening study of the colchicine binding site on tubulin. Novel tubulin inhibitors were identified and characterized by their inhibitory activities on tubulin polymerization in vitro. The structural basis for the interaction of novel inhibitors with tubulin was investigated by molecular modeling, and we have proposed binding models for these hit compounds with tubulin. The proposed docking models were very similar to the binding pattern of colchicine or podophyllotoxin with tubulin. These new hit compound derivatives exerted growth inhibitory effects on the HL60 cell lines tested and exhibited strong cell cycle arrest at G2/M phase. Furthermore, these compounds induced apoptosis after cell cycle arrest. In this study, we show that the validated derivatives of compound 11 could serve as potent lead compounds for designing novel anti-cancer agents that target microtubules.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1464-3391
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7092-100
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Cell Cycle, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Drug Discovery, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-G2 Phase, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Mitosis, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Small Molecule Libraries, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Stereoisomerism, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Tubulin, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Tubulin Modulators, pubmed-meshheading:20810285-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Structure-based virtual screening of novel tubulin inhibitors and their characterization as anti-mitotic agents.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't