Discovery and Mechanistic Study of a Small Molecule Inhibitor for Motor Protein KIFC1

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• 作者：Jiaquan Wu ; Keith Mikule ; Wenxian Wang ; Nancy Su ; Philip Petteruti ; Farzin Gharahdaghi ; Erin Code ; Xiahui Zhu ; Kelly Jacques ; Zhongwu Lai ; Bin Yang ; Michelle L. Lamb ; Claudio Chuaqui ; Nicholas Keen ; Huawei Chen
• 刊名：ACS Chemical Biology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October 18, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：8
• 期：10
• 页码：2201-2208
• 全文大小：426K
• 年卷期：v.8,no.10(October 18, 2013)
• ISSN：1554-8937

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Centrosome amplification is observed in many human cancers and has been proposed to be a driver of both genetic instability and tumorigenesis. Cancer cells have evolved mechanisms to bundle multiple centrosomes into two spindle poles to avoid multipolar mitosis that can lead to chromosomal segregation defects and eventually cell death. KIFC1, a kinesin-14 family protein, plays an essential role in centrosomal bundling in cancer cells, but its function is not required for normal diploid cell division, suggesting that KIFC1 is an attractive therapeutic target for human cancers. To this end, we have identified the first reported small molecule inhibitor AZ82 for KIFC1. AZ82 bound specifically to the KIFC1/microtubule (MT) binary complex and inhibited the MT-stimulated KIFC1 enzymatic activity in an ATP-competitive and MT-noncompetitive manner with a K_i of 0.043 渭M. AZ82 effectively engaged with the minus end-directed KIFC1 motor inside cells to reverse the monopolar spindle phenotype induced by the inhibition of the plus end-directed kinesin Eg5. Treatment with AZ82 caused centrosome declustering in BT-549 breast cancer cells with amplified centrosomes. Consistent with genetic studies, our data confirmed that KIFC1 inhibition by a small molecule holds promise for targeting cancer cells with amplified centrosomes and provided evidence that functional suppression of KIFC1 by inhibiting its enzymatic activity could be an effective means for developing cancer therapeutics.