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Bioorg Med Chem Lett ; 29(12): 1463-1470, 2019 06 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31010722

ABSTRACT

We have previously reported the syntheses of a series of 3,6-disubstituted quinolines as modulators of the retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor gamma t (RORγt). These molecules are potent binders but are high molecular weight and they exhibited poor solubility at pH 2 and pH 7. This manuscript details our efforts at improving physical chemical properties for this series of compounds by increasing the diversity at the 3-position (i.e. introducing heteroatoms and lowering the molecular weight). These efforts have led to molecules which are potent binders with improved solubility.


Subject(s)
Drug Inverse Agonism , Quinolines/agonists , Animals , Humans , Molecular Structure , Structure-Activity Relationship
2.
Sci Rep ; 6: 37977, 2016 12 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27905482

ABSTRACT

The IL-23/IL-17 pathway is implicated in autoimmune diseases, particularly psoriasis, where biologics targeting IL-23 and IL-17 have shown significant clinical efficacy. Retinoid-related orphan nuclear receptor gamma t (RORγt) is required for Th17 differentiation and IL-17 production in adaptive and innate immune cells. We identified JNJ-54271074, a potent and highly-selective RORγt inverse agonist, which dose-dependently inhibited RORγt-driven transcription, decreased co-activator binding and promoted interaction with co-repressor protein. This compound selectively blocked Th17 differentiation, significantly reduced IL-17A production from memory T cells, and decreased IL-17A- and IL-22-producing human and murine γδ and NKT cells. In a murine collagen-induced arthritis model, JNJ-54271074 dose-dependently suppressed joint inflammation. Furthermore, JNJ-54271074 suppressed IL-17A production in human PBMC from rheumatoid arthritis patients. RORγt-deficient mice showed decreased IL-23-induced psoriasis-like skin inflammation and cytokine gene expression, consistent with dose-dependent inhibition in wild-type mice through oral dosing of JNJ-54271074. In a translational model of human psoriatic epidermal cells and skin-homing T cells, JNJ-54271074 selectively inhibited streptococcus extract-induced IL-17A and IL-17F. JNJ-54271074 is thus a potent, selective RORγt modulator with therapeutic potential in IL-23/IL-17 mediated autoimmune diseases.


Subject(s)
Arthritis, Rheumatoid/drug therapy , Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3/genetics , Peptides, Cyclic/administration & dosage , Psoriasis/drug therapy , Th17 Cells/drug effects , Administration, Oral , Animals , Arthritis, Rheumatoid/genetics , Arthritis, Rheumatoid/metabolism , Cell Differentiation/drug effects , Cells, Cultured , Disease Models, Animal , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects , Interleukin-17/metabolism , Interleukins/metabolism , Mice , Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3/metabolism , Peptides, Cyclic/pharmacology , Psoriasis/genetics , Psoriasis/metabolism , Th17 Cells/cytology , Th17 Cells/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic , Interleukin-22
3.
J Nutr Biochem ; 25(5): 573-9, 2014 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24725433

ABSTRACT

The increased uptake and storage of lipids in the liver are important features of steatotic liver diseases. The fatty acid translocase/scavenger receptor cluster of differentiation (CD)36 facilitates the hepatic uptake of lipids. We investigated if RRR-α-tocopherol (αT) alone or in combination with atorvastatin (ATV) is capable of preventing hepatic lipid accumulation via down-regulation of CD36. To this end, Dunkin Hartley guinea pigs were fed a control diet (5% fat); or a high-fat control diet (21% fat, 0.15% cholesterol); or a high-fat control diet fortified with αT (250 mg/kg diet), ATV (300 mg/kg diet) or both ATV+αT for 6 weeks. Hepatic triacylglycerols, hepatic protein and mRNA expression of CD36 as well as the mRNA expression of the controlling nuclear receptors LXRα, PXR and PPARγ were determined. Animals fed the high-fat control diet accumulated significantly more triacylglycerols in the liver than control animals. This was significantly reduced by ATV and numerically by αT and ATV+αT. Hepatic CD36 protein concentrations were significantly higher in the high-fat than in the control group, and both αT and ATV reduced CD36 expression to the level observed in the control group. However, no synergistic effect of the combined treatment was observed. Neither CD36 mRNA nor that of the nuclear receptors (LXRα, PXR and PPARγ) differed between groups, suggesting a posttranslational regulatory mechanism. Our results indicate that orally administered ATV and αT individually, but not synergistically, prevent diet-induced lipid accumulation in the liver of guinea pigs by down-regulation of hepatic CD36 protein.


Subject(s)
CD36 Antigens/metabolism , Heptanoic Acids/pharmacology , Lipid Metabolism/drug effects , Liver/drug effects , Pyrroles/pharmacology , alpha-Tocopherol/pharmacology , Animals , Anticholesteremic Agents/pharmacology , Atorvastatin , CD36 Antigens/genetics , Dietary Supplements , Down-Regulation/drug effects , Guinea Pigs , Liver/metabolism , Oxidative Stress/drug effects , Receptors, LDL/metabolism , Triglycerides/metabolism , Ubiquitination/drug effects
4.
J Biol Chem ; 281(8): 4920-30, 2006 Feb 24.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16354658

ABSTRACT

Partial, selective activation of nuclear receptors is a central issue in molecular endocrinology but only partly understood. Using LXRs as an example, we show here that purely agonistic ligands can be clearly and quantitatively differentiated from partial agonists by the cofactor interactions they induce. Although a pure agonist induces a conformation that is incompatible with the binding of repressors, partial agonists such as GW3965 induce a state where the interaction not only with coactivators, but also corepressors is clearly enhanced over the unliganded state. The activities of the natural ligand 22(R)-hydroxycholesterol and of a novel quinazolinone ligand, LN6500 can be further differentiated from GW3965 and T0901317 by their weaker induction of coactivator binding. Using biochemical and cell-based assays, we show that the natural ligand of LXR is a comparably weak partial agonist. As predicted, we find that a change in the coactivator to corepressor ratio in the cell will affect NCoR recruiting compounds more dramatically than NCoR-dissociating compounds. Our data show how competitive binding of coactivators and corepressors can explain the tissue-specific behavior of partial agonists and open up new routes to a rational design of partial agonists for LXRs.


Subject(s)
DNA-Binding Proteins/agonists , DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/agonists , Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism , Benzoates/pharmacology , Benzylamines/pharmacology , Binding, Competitive , Cell Line , Cell-Free System , DNA Primers/chemistry , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer , Gene Expression Regulation , Humans , Hydroxycholesterols/chemistry , Ligands , Liver X Receptors , Models, Chemical , Molecular Conformation , Orphan Nuclear Receptors , Peptides/chemistry , Protein Binding , Quinazolines/chemistry , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Two-Hybrid System Techniques
5.
Genome ; 48(2): 207-16, 2005 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15838542

ABSTRACT

Ustilago maydis, a basidiomycete, is a model organism among phytopathogenic fungi. A physical map of U. maydis strain 521 was developed from bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones. BAC fingerprints used polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to separate restriction fragments. Fragments were labeled at the HindIII site and co-digested with HaeIII to reduce fragments to 50-750 bp. Contiguous overlapping sets of clones (contigs) were assembled at nine stringencies (from P < or = 1 x 10(-6) to 1 x 10(-24)). Each assembly nucleated contigs with different percentages of bands overlapping between clones (from 20% to 97%). The number of clones per contig decreased linearly from 41 to 12 from P < or = 1 x 10(-7) to 1 x 10 (-12). The number of separate contigs increased from 56 to 150 over the same range. A hybridization-based physical map of the same BAC clones was compared with the fingerprint contigs built at P < or = 1 x 10(-7). The two methods provided consistent physical maps that were largely validated by genome sequence. The combined hybridization and fingerprint physical map provided a minimum tile path composed of 258 BAC clones (18-20 Mbp) distributed among 28 merged contigs. The genome of U. maydis was estimated to be 20.5 Mbp by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and 24 Mbp by BAC fingerprints. There were 23 separate chromosomes inferred by both pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and fingerprint contigs. Only 11 of the tile path BAC clones contained recognizable centromere, telomere, and subtelomere repeats (high-copy DNA), suggesting that repeats caused some false merges. There were 247 tile path BAC clones that encompassed about 17.5 Mbp of low-copy DNA sequence. BAC clones are available for repeat and unique gene cluster analysis including tDNA-mediated transformation. Program FingerPrint Contigs maps aligned with each chromosome can be viewed at http://www.siu.edu/~meksem/ustilago_maydis/.


Subject(s)
Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial/genetics , Chromosomes, Fungal/genetics , Contig Mapping , Genome, Fungal , Ustilago/genetics , Genomic Library
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