Structure-Based Design of Selective LONP1 Inhibitors for Probing In Vitro Biology
生物
背景(考古学)
细胞生物学
古生物学
作者
Laura J. Kingsley,Xiaohui He,Matthew McNeill,John T. Nelson,V. I. Nikulin,Zhiwei Ma,Wenshuo Lu,Vicki Zhou,Mari Manuia,Andreas Kreusch,Mu-Yun Gao,Darbi Witmer,Mei-Ting Vaillancourt,Min Lu,Sarah Greenblatt,Christian Lee,Ajay A. Vashisht,Steven L. Bender,Glen Spraggon,Pierre‐Yves Michellys,Yong Jia,Jacob R. Haling,G. Lelais
LONP1 is an AAA+ protease that maintains mitochondrial homeostasis by removing damaged or misfolded proteins. Elevated activity and expression of LONP1 promotes cancer cell proliferation and resistance to apoptosis-inducing reagents. Despite the importance of LONP1 in human biology and disease, very few LONP1 inhibitors have been described in the literature. Herein, we report the development of selective boronic acid-based LONP1 inhibitors using structure-based drug design as well as the first structures of human LONP1 bound to various inhibitors. Our efforts led to several nanomolar LONP1 inhibitors with little to no activity against the 20S proteasome that serve as tool compounds to investigate LONP1 biology.