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Derivation of a retinoid x receptor scaffold from peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma ligand 1-di(1h-indol-3-yl)methyl-4-trifluoromethylbenzene

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authors

  • Dawson, M. I.
  • Ye, M.
  • Cao, X. H.
  • Farhana, L.
  • Hu, Q. Y.
  • Zhao, Y.
  • Xu, L. P.
  • Kiselyuk, A.
  • Correa, R. G.
  • Yang, L.
  • Hou, T. J.
  • Reed, J. C.
  • Itkin-Ansari, P.
  • Levine, F.
  • Sanner, Michel
  • Fontana, J. A.
  • Zhang, X. K.

publication date

  • July 2009

journal

  • ChemMedChem  Journal

abstract

  • PPARgamma agonist DIM-Ph-4-CF(3), a template for RXRalpha agonist (E)-3-[5-di(1-methyl-1H-indol-3-yl)methyl-2-thienyl] acrylic acid: DIM-Ph-CF(3) is reported to inhibit cancer growth independent of PPARgamma and to interact with NR4A1. As both receptors dimerize with RXR, and natural PPARgamma ligands activate RXR, DIM-Ph-4-CF(3) was investigated as an RXR ligand. It displaces 9-cis-retinoic acid from RXRalpha but does not activate RXRalpha. Structure-based direct design led to an RXRalpha agonist.1-Di(1H-indol-3-yl)methyl-4-trifluoromethylbenzene (DIM-Ph-4-CF(3)) is reported to inhibit cancer cell growth and to act as a transcriptional agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) and nuclear receptor 4A subfamily member 1 (NR4A1). In addition, DIM-Ph-4-CF(3) exerts anticancer effects independent of these receptors because PPARgamma antagonists do not block its inhibition of cell growth, and the small pocket in the NR4A1 crystal structure suggests no ligand can bind. Because PPARgamma and NR4A1 heterodimerize with retinoid X receptor (RXR), and several PPARgamma ligands transcriptionally activate RXR, DIM-Ph-4-CF(3) was investigated as an RXR ligand. DIM-Ph-4-CF(3) displaces 9-cis-retinoic acid from RXRalpha but does not transactivate RXRalpha. Structure-based design using DIM-Ph-4-CF(3) as a template led to the RXRalpha transcriptional agonist (E)-3-[5-di(1-methyl-1H-indol-3-yl)methyl-2-thienyl]acrylic acid. Its docked pose in the RXRalpha ligand binding domain suggests that binding is stabilized by interactions of its carboxylate group with arginine 316, its indoles with cysteines 269 and 432, and its 1-methyl groups with hydrophobic residues lining the binding pocket. As is expected of a selective activator of RXRalpha, but not of RARs and PPARgamma, this RXRalpha agonist, unlike DIM-Ph-4-CF(3), does not appreciably decrease cancer cell growth or induce apoptosis at pharmacologically relevant concentrations.

subject areas

  • Binding Sites
  • Binding, Competitive
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Computer Simulation
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Drug Design
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Fluorobenzenes
  • Humans
  • Ligands
  • Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 4, Group A, Member 1
  • PPAR gamma
  • Receptors, Steroid
  • Retinoid X Receptors
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Research

keywords

  • RXR
  • TR3
  • antitumor agents
  • dimethylarenes
  • receptors
  • retinoids
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3031428

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1860-7179

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/cmdc.200800447

PubMed ID

  • 19378296
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1106

end page

  • 1119

volume

  • 4

issue

  • 7

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