Kinesin inhibitors

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-01-06
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
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In yet another aspect, the present invention provides a method of treating an individual with a cancerous growth comprising administering to the individual a therapeutically effective and non-toxic dose of a composition comprising a compound having the formula (V):
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However, such modulators are not available for most of the proteins involved in essential processes, and many of the ones that are available are nonspecific.
For many of these processes, more than one kinesin is implicated, and the specific cargo associated with a given motor protein has been difficult to establish.
It thus has been difficult to tie down the in vivo function(s) of conventional kinesin.
Experiments using antisense techniques and microinjection of inhibitory antibodies have been further complicated by recent observations of efficient endoplasmic reticulum to Golgi transport in the absence of microtubules, albeit under restricted conditions (reviewed in G. S. Bloom and L. S. Goldstein, J.
Similar problems have been encountered in dissecting the function of

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Screen to Identify Small Molecule Inhibitors of Exocytosis Automated Image Capture

Automated screening microscope was developed to allow medium-throughput imaging-based screening. A Nikon inverted fluorescence microscope equipped with a 20×dry lens (F 0.45) was equipped with a cooled charged coupled device (CCD) camera and the Metamorph software suite (Universal Imaging Corp.) for data acquisition. Changes in the focal plane were obtained by controlling the focal length of the optical path with a piezo-electric collar attached to the 20× dry lens with steps of 5 μm on a total range of 300 μm. Best focus was achieved by using an algorithm that searches for maximum contrast on the acquired image. The microscope set-up is diagrammed in FIG. 3.

The Metamorph software performs the following tasks: (1) automatically center the lens in each well of a tissue culture plate (in our case, 384-well plates); (2) automatically focus the image, by collecting 25 images in different focal planes...

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ATPase Assay with Purified Human Eg5 Kinesin

Monastrol and 22C16 were both determined to block the ATPase activity of human Eg5 (N-terminal 405 amino acids and 6-His tagged at C terminus). Monastrol did not inhibit the activity of human kinesin (N-terminal 560 amino acids of full length protein followed by 6-His tag at C terminus).

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Preparation of Recombinant Human Eg5 Kinesin (Eg5-405)

DNA encoding full length human Eg5 kinesin was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using Vent DNA polymerase (NE Biolabs, Beverly, Mass.) and subcloned into an expression plasmid (pRSETa). For the PCR reaction, the template used was a pBluescript vector containing the full length coding sequence for human Eg5 (a gift from Anne Blangy). The 5′ primer (5′-GCA ACG ATT AAT ATG GCG TCG CAG CCA AAT TCG TCT GCG AAG) contained an Ase I cleavage site upstream of the Eg5 start codon. The 3′ primer (5′-GCA ACG CTC GAG TCA GTG ATG ATG GTG GTG ATG CAT GAC TCT AAA ATT TTC TTC AGA AAT ) was ...

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Synthesis of Monastroline

The synthesis of monastroline (22C16) was performed via the Pictet-Spengler reaction (Ber. 44:2030, 1911) Whaley and Govindachari. Org. Reaction. 6:74, 1951; Ungemach et al. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 102:6976-6984, 1980). Recent examples of the use of the Pictet-Spengler reaction are provided by Rousseau and Dodd (J. Org. Chem. 63:2731-2737, 1998) and by Leonard et al. (Tet. Lett. 38:3071-3074, 1997).

FIG. 10 depicts the synthetic reaction scheme for monastroline using the Pictet-Spengler reaction. D,L-tryptophan (Sigma-Aldrich) was used as the starting material. D,L-tryptophan was refluxed with 3-hydroxylbenzaldehyde (Sigma-Aldrich) in methanol for approximately 6 hours. The racemic beta-carboline was purified and refluxed with n-Bu-ICN in acetone for approximately 48 hours. Cis and trans isomers of monastroline were separated and purified by standard silica gel chromatography.

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The present invention provides for compounds, compositions, methods and systems for inhibiting cell growth. More specifically, the present invention provides for methods, compounds and compositions which are capable of inhibiting mitosis in metabolically active cells. Compounds, compositions and methods of the present invention inhibit the activity of a protein involved in the assembly and maintenance of the mitotic spindle. One class of proteins which acts on the mitotic spindle is the family of mitotic kinesins, a subset of the kinesin superfamily.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Cell-permeable small molecules can rapidly perturb the function of their targets and are therefore powerful tools to dissect dynamic cellular processes. However, such modulators are not available for most of the proteins involved in essential processes, and many of the ones that are available are nonspecific. The only known small molecules that specifically affect the mitotic machinery target tubulin (E. Hamel, Med. Res. Rev. 16, 207 (1996)), a subunit of the microtubules in the mitotic spindle. One class of proteins involved in the assembly and maintenance of the mitotic spindle is the family of mitotic kinesins, a subset of the kinesin superfamily. This superfamily contains over 100 proteins, whose other functions include organelle transport and membrane organization (R. D. Vale and R. J. Fletterick, Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 13, 745 (1997)). The first evidence that mitotic kinesins are important in establishing spindle bipolarity came from genetic s...

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IPC IPC(8): C07D471/14
CPCC07D471/14
Inventor FENG, YANKAPOOR, TARUN M.MAYER, THOMASMALIGA, ZOLTANMITCHISON, TIMOTHY J.YARROW, JUSTIN
Owner PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
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