Topographical mapping of isoform-selectivity determinants for J-channel-binding inhibitors of sphingosine kinases 1 and 2

Adams, David R. and Tawati, Salha and Berretta, Giacomo and Rivas, Paula Lopez and Baiget, Jessica and Jiang, Zhong and Alsfouk, Aisha and MacKay, Simon P. and Pyne, Nigel J. and Pyne, Susan (2019) Topographical mapping of isoform-selectivity determinants for J-channel-binding inhibitors of sphingosine kinases 1 and 2. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 62 (7). pp. 3658-3676. ISSN 0022-2623 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00162)

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Abstract

Sphingosine kinase enzymes (SK1 and SK2) catalyze the conversion of sphingosine into sphingosine 1-phosphate and play a key role in lipid signaling and cellular responses. Mapping of isoform amino acid sequence differences for SK2 onto the recently available crystal structures of SK1 suggests that subtle structural differences exist in the foot of the lipid-binding "J-channel" in SK2, the structure of which has yet to be defined by structural biology techniques. We have probed these isoform differences with a ligand series derived from the potent SK1-selective inhibitor, PF-543. Here we show how it is possible, even with relatively conservative changes in compound structure, to systematically tune the activity profile of a ligand from ca. 100-fold SK1-selective inhibition, through equipotent SK1/SK2 inhibition, to reversed 100-fold SK2 selectivity, with retention of nanomolar potency.

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Adams, David R., Tawati, Salha, Berretta, Giacomo, Rivas, Paula Lopez, Baiget, Jessica, Jiang, Zhong, Alsfouk, Aisha, MacKay, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8000-6557, Pyne, Nigel J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-4578 and Pyne, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6608-9584;
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