Development of new Malt1 inhibitors and probes

BT Xin, G Schimmack, Y Du, BI Florea… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2016 - Elsevier
BT Xin, G Schimmack, Y Du, BI Florea, GA Van Der Marel, C Driessen, D Krappmann
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2016Elsevier
Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1 (Malt1) is a promising
therapeutic target for the treatment of activated B cell-like diffuse large B cell lymphoma
(ABC-DLBCL). Several research groups have reported on the development of Malt1
inhibitors and activity-based probes for in vitro and in situ monitoring and modulating Malt1
activity. In this paper, we report on two activity-based Malt1 probes (6 and 7) and a focused
library of 19 new Malt1 inhibitors. Our peptide-based probe 6 labels Malt1 in an activity …
Abstract
Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1 (Malt1) is a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of activated B cell-like diffuse large B cell lymphoma (ABC-DLBCL). Several research groups have reported on the development of Malt1 inhibitors and activity-based probes for in vitro and in situ monitoring and modulating Malt1 activity. In this paper, we report on two activity-based Malt1 probes (6 and 7) and a focused library of 19 new Malt1 inhibitors. Our peptide-based probe 6 labels Malt1 in an activity-based manner. In contrast, probe 7, derived from the known covalent inhibitor MI-2, labels both wild type and catalytically inactive Cys to Ala mutant Malt1, suggesting that MI-2 inhibits Malt1 by reacting with a nucleophilic residue other than the active site cysteine. Furthermore, two of our inhibitors (9, apparent IC50 3.0 μM, and 13, apparent IC50 2.1 μM) show good inhibitory activity against Malt1 and outperform MI-2 (apparent IC50 7.8 μM) in our competitive activity-based protein profiling assay.
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