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Paolo Mellini1, Biagina Marrocco1, Diana Borovika2, Lucia Polletta3, Ilaria Carnevale3, Serena Saladini3, Giulia Stazi1, Clemens Zwergel1, Peteris Trapencieris2, Elisabetta Ferretti3, Marco Tafani4, Sergio Valente5, Antonello Mai6,7.
Abstract
Novel pyrazole-based EZH2 inhibitors have been prepared through a molecular pruning approach from known inhibitors bearing a bicyclic moiety as a central scaffold. The hit compound 1o (N-((4,6-dimethyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridin-3-yl)methyl)-5-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide) showed low micromolar EZH2/PRC2 inhibition and high selectivity towards a panel of other methyltransferases. Moreover, 1o displayed cell growth arrest in breast MDA-MB231, leukaemia K562, and neuroblastoma SK-N-BE cancer cells joined to reduction of H3K27me3 levels and induction of apoptosis and autophagy.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Frontiers in epigenetic chemical biology'.Entities:
Keywords: apoptosis; autophagy; enhancer of zeste homologue 2 inhibitors; epigenetics
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29685965 PMCID: PMC5915724 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0150
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci ISSN: 0962-8436 Impact factor: 6.237