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  2. Antitumor activity of an allosteric inhibitor of centromere-associated protein-E

Antitumor activity of an allosteric inhibitor of centromere-associated protein-E

  • Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Mar 30;107(13):5839-44. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0915068107.
Kenneth W Wood 1 Latesh Lad Lusong Luo Xiangping Qian Steven D Knight Neysa Nevins Katjusa Brejc David Sutton Aidan G Gilmartin Penelope R Chua Radhika Desai Stephen P Schauer Dean E McNulty Roland S Annan Lisa D Belmont Carlos Garcia Yan Lee Melody A Diamond Leo F Faucette Michele Giardiniere Shuyun Zhang Chiu-Mei Sun Justin D Vidal Serge Lichtsteiner William D Cornwell Joel D Greshock Richard F Wooster Jeffrey T Finer Robert A Copeland Pearl S Huang David J Morgans Jr Dashyant Dhanak Gustave Bergnes Roman Sakowicz Jeffrey R Jackson
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  • 1 Cytokinetics Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA. kwood@cytokinetics.com
Abstract

Centromere-associated protein-E (CENP-E) is a kinetochore-associated mitotic Kinesin that is thought to function as the key receptor responsible for mitotic checkpoint signal transduction after interaction with spindle microtubules. We have identified GSK923295, an allosteric inhibitor of CENP-E Kinesin motor ATPase activity, and mapped the inhibitor binding site to a region similar to that bound by loop-5 inhibitors of the Kinesin KSP/Eg5. Unlike these KSP inhibitors, which block release of ADP and destabilize motor-microtubule interaction, GSK923295 inhibited release of inorganic phosphate and stabilized CENP-E motor domain interaction with microtubules. Inhibition of CENP-E motor activity in cultured cells and tumor xenografts caused failure of metaphase chromosome alignment and induced mitotic arrest, indicating that tight binding of CENP-E to microtubules is insufficient to satisfy the mitotic checkpoint. Consistent with genetic studies in mice suggesting that decreased CENP-E function can have a tumor-suppressive effect, inhibition of CENP-E induced tumor cell Apoptosis and tumor regression.

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