PUBLICATION
A useful approach to identify novel small-molecule inhibitors of Wnt-dependent transcription
- Authors
- Ewan, K., Pajak, B., Stubbs, M., Todd, H., Barbeau, O., Quevedo, C., Botfield, H., Young, R., Ruddle, R., Samuel, L., Battersby, A., Raynaud, F., Allen, N., Wilson, S., Latinkic, B., Workman, P., McDonald, E., Blagg, J., Aherne, W., Dale, T.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-191122-11
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Cancer research 70: 5963-73 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Wilson, Steve, Young, Rodrigo
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology*
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor/methods*
- High-Throughput Screening Assays/methods*
- Humans
- L Cells
- Mice
- Signal Transduction
- Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
- Wnt Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors*
- Wnt Proteins/genetics
- Wnt Proteins/metabolism
- Xenopus laevis
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 20610623 Full text @ Cancer Res.
Citation
Ewan, K., Pajak, B., Stubbs, M., Todd, H., Barbeau, O., Quevedo, C., Botfield, H., Young, R., Ruddle, R., Samuel, L., Battersby, A., Raynaud, F., Allen, N., Wilson, S., Latinkic, B., Workman, P., McDonald, E., Blagg, J., Aherne, W., Dale, T. (2010) A useful approach to identify novel small-molecule inhibitors of Wnt-dependent transcription. Cancer research. 70:5963-73.
Abstract
The Wnt signaling pathway is frequently deregulated in cancer due to mutations in genes encoding APC, beta-catenin, and axin. To identify small-molecule inhibitors of Wnt signaling as potential therapeutics, a diverse chemical library was screened using a transcription factor reporter cell line in which the activity of the pathway was induced at the level of Disheveled protein. A series of deconvolution studies was used to focus on three compound series that selectively killed cancer cell lines with constitutive Wnt signaling. Activities of the compounds included the ability to induce degradation of beta-catenin that had been stabilized by a glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) inhibitor. This screen illustrates a practical approach to identify small-molecule inhibitors of Wnt signaling that can seed the development of agents suitable to treat patients with Wnt-dependent tumors.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping