Title
Inhibiting AMPylation: a novel screen to identify the first small molecule inhibitors of protein AMPylation
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2014-02-21
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Adenosine Monophosphate; Adenosine Triphosphate; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Bacterial Proteins; Drug Discovery; High-Throughput Screening Assays; Humans; Small Molecule Libraries; Vibrio Infections; Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Disciplines
Biochemistry | Enzymes and Coenzymes | Medicinal-Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Therapeutics
Abstract
Enzymatic transfer of the AMP portion of ATP to substrate proteins has recently been described as an essential mechanism of bacterial infection for several pathogens. The first AMPylator to be discovered, VopS from Vibrio parahemolyticus, catalyzes the transfer of AMP onto the host GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1. Modification of these proteins disrupts downstream signaling events, contributing to cell rounding and apoptosis, and recent studies have suggested that blocking AMPylation may be an effective route to stop infection. To date, however, no small molecule inhibitors have been discovered for any of the AMPylators. Therefore, we developed a fluorescence-polarization-based high-throughput screening assay and used it to discover the first inhibitors of protein AMPylation. Herein we report the discovery of the first small molecule VopS inhibitors (e.g., calmidazolium, GW7647, and MK886) with Ki's ranging from 6 to 50 muM and upward of 30-fold selectivity versus HYPE, the only known human AMPylator.
DOI of Published Version
10.1021/cb4006886
Source
ACS Chem Biol. 2014 Feb 21;9(2):433-42. doi: 10.1021/cb4006886. Epub 2013 Nov 25. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
ACS chemical biology
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Repository Citation
Lewallen DM, Sreelatha A, Dharmarajan V, Madoux F, Chase P, Griffin PR, Orth K, Hodder P, Thompson PR. (2014). Inhibiting AMPylation: a novel screen to identify the first small molecule inhibitors of protein AMPylation. Thompson Lab Publications. https://doi.org/10.1021/cb4006886. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/thompson/19
Comments
At the time of publication, Paul Thompson was not yet affiliated with UMass Medical School.