Sunday, June 9, 2019

Discovery of Potent and Selective Covalent Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) Inhibitors

Hong Lin, Min Wang, Yang W. Zhang, Shuilong Tong, Raul A. Leal, Rupa Shetty, Kris Vaddi, and Juan I. Luengo

ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2019
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.9b00074

Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) is known to symmetrically dimethylate numerous cytosolic and nuclear proteins that are involved in a variety of cellular processes. Recent findings have revealed its potential as a cancer therapeutic target. PRMT5 possesses a cysteine (C449) in the active site, unique to PRMT5. Therefore, covalent PRMT5 inhibition is an attractive chemical approach. Herein, we report an exciting discovery of a series of novel hemiaminals that under physiological conditions can be converted to aldehydes and react with C449 to form covalent adducts, which presumably undergo an unprecedented elimination to form the thiol-vinyl ethers, as indicated by electron density in the co-crystal structure of the PRMT5/MEP50 complex.

Redirecting the pioneering function of FOXA1 with covalent small molecules

Sang Joon Won, Yuxiang Zhang, Christopher J. Reinhardt,Lauren M. Hargis, Nicole S. MacRae,Kristen E. DeMeester,Evert Njomen,Jarrett R. Remsb...