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Ispinesib as an Effective Warhead for the Design of Autophagosome-Tethering Chimeras: Discovery of Potent Degraders of Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) by Guoqiang Dong; Ying Wu; Junfei Cheng; Long Chen; Rui Liu; Yu Ding; Shanchao Wu; Junhui Ma; Chunquan Sheng is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
Autophagosome-tethering compounds (ATTECs) are an emerging new technology in targeted protein degradation. However, effective tools and successful examples for autophagosome-tethering chimeras are still rather limited. Herein, ATTEC ispinesib was identified for the first time to be an effective warhead to design autophagosome-tethering chimeras. As a conceptual validation study, the first generation of autophagic degraders of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) were developed by connecting the NAMPT inhibitor and LC3-binding ispinesib through a flexible linker. In particular, compound significantly induced the degradation of NAMPT through the autophagy-lysosomal pathway, leading to excellent cellular antitumor potency. Ispinesib may have broad applications in the design of potent autophagosome-tethering chimeras.
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- Author
- Guoqiang Dong; Ying Wu; Junfei Cheng; Long Chen; Rui Liu; Yu Ding; Shanchao Wu; Junhui Ma; Chunquan Sheng
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)