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  2. Discovery of a ZIP7 inhibitor from a Notch pathway screen

Discovery of a ZIP7 inhibitor from a Notch pathway screen

  • Nat Chem Biol. 2019 Feb;15(2):179-188. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0200-7.
Erin Nolin 1 Sara Gans 1 Luis Llamas 1 Somnath Bandyopadhyay 1 Scott M Brittain 1 Paula Bernasconi-Elias 1 Kyle P Carter 2 Joseph J Loureiro 1 Jason R Thomas 1 Markus Schirle 1 Yi Yang 1 Ning Guo 1 Guglielmo Roma 3 Sven Schuierer 3 Martin Beibel 3 Alicia Lindeman 1 Frederic Sigoillot 1 Amy Chen 1 Kevin X Xie 1 Samuel Ho 1 John Reece-Hoyes 1 Wilhelm A Weihofen 1 Kayla Tyskiewicz 1 Dominic Hoepfner 3 Richard I McDonald 1 Nicolette Guthrie 1 Abhishek Dogra 1 Haibing Guo 4 Jian Shao 1 Jian Ding 1 Stephen M Canham 1 Geoff Boynton 1 Elizabeth L George 1 Zhao B Kang 1 Christophe Antczak 1 Jeffery A Porter 1 Owen Wallace 1 John A Tallarico 1 Amy E Palmer 2 Jeremy L Jenkins 1 Rishi K Jain 1 Simon M Bushell 5 Christy J Fryer 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • 3 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
  • 4 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Shanghai, China.
  • 5 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. simon.bushell@novartis.com.
  • 6 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. christy.fryer@novartis.com.
Abstract

The identification of activating mutations in NOTCH1 in 50% of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia has generated interest in elucidating how these mutations contribute to oncogenic transformation and in targeting the pathway. A phenotypic screen identified compounds that interfere with trafficking of Notch and induce Apoptosis via an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress mechanism. Target identification approaches revealed a role for SLC39A7 (ZIP7), a zinc transport family member, in governing Notch trafficking and signaling. Generation and sequencing of a compound-resistant cell line identified a V430E mutation in ZIP7 that confers transferable resistance to the compound NVS-ZP7-4. NVS-ZP7-4 altered zinc in the ER, and an analog of the compound photoaffinity labeled ZIP7 in cells, suggesting a direct interaction between the compound and ZIP7. NVS-ZP7-4 is the first reported chemical tool to probe the impact of modulating ER zinc levels and investigate ZIP7 as a novel druggable node in the Notch pathway.

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