Publication Date:
2005-11-15
Description:
We have identified a small-molecule inhibitor of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) that promotes subunit disassembly of this trimeric cytokine family member. The compound inhibits TNF-alpha activity in biochemical and cell-based assays with median inhibitory concentrations of 22 and 4.6 micromolar, respectively. Formation of an intermediate complex between the compound and the intact trimer results in a 600-fold accelerated subunit dissociation rate that leads to trimer dissociation. A structure solved by x-ray crystallography reveals that a single compound molecule displaces a subunit of the trimer to form a complex with a dimer of TNF-alpha subunits.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉He, Molly M -- Smith, Annemarie Stroustrup -- Oslob, Johan D -- Flanagan, William M -- Braisted, Andrew C -- Whitty, Adrian -- Cancilla, Mark T -- Wang, Jun -- Lugovskoy, Alexey A -- Yoburn, Josh C -- Fung, Amy D -- Farrington, Graham -- Eldredge, John K -- Day, Eric S -- Cruz, Leslie A -- Cachero, Teresa G -- Miller, Stephan K -- Friedman, Jessica E -- Choong, Ingrid C -- Cunningham, Brian C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Nov 11;310(5750):1022-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated, 341 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16284179" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Biotinylation
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Chemistry, Physical
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Dimerization
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Fluorescence
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Hydrogen/chemistry
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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Indoles/chemical synthesis/*chemistry/*pharmacology
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Kinetics
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Mass Spectrometry
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Models, Chemical
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Conformation
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Molecular Structure
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Physicochemical Phenomena
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Subunits/chemistry
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Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I/metabolism
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Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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