PUBLICATION
Chemical targeting of GAPDH moonlighting function in cancer cells reveals its role in tubulin regulation
- Authors
- Jung, D.W., Kim, W.H., Seo, S., Oh, E., Yim, S.H., Ha, H.H., Chang, Y.T., Williams, D.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170214-282
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Chemistry & Biology 21: 1533-45 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Actin Cytoskeleton/drug effects
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Movement/drug effects
- Cell Survival/drug effects
- Cytoplasm/metabolism
- Down-Regulation/drug effects
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases/genetics
- Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases/metabolism*
- HCT116 Cells
- HT29 Cells
- Humans
- Larva/drug effects
- Larva/metabolism
- Neoplasms/pathology
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Triazines/chemistry
- Triazines/pharmacology
- Tubulin/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/growth & development
- PubMed
- 25308277 Full text @ Chem. Biol.
Citation
Jung, D.W., Kim, W.H., Seo, S., Oh, E., Yim, S.H., Ha, H.H., Chang, Y.T., Williams, D.R. (2014) Chemical targeting of GAPDH moonlighting function in cancer cells reveals its role in tubulin regulation. Chemistry & Biology. 21:1533-45.
Abstract
Glycolytic enzymes are attractive anticancer targets. They also carry out numerous, nonglycolytic "moonlighting" functions in cells. In this study, we investigated the anticancer activity of the triazine small molecule, GAPDS, that targets the glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH). GAPDS showed greater toxicity against cancer cells compared to a known GAPDH enzyme inhibitor. GAPDS also selectively inhibited cell migration and invasion. Our analysis showed that GAPDS treatment reduced GAPDH levels in the cytoplasm, which would modulate the secondary, moonlighting functions of this enzyme. We then used GAPDS as a probe to demonstrate that a moonlighting function of GAPDH is tubulin regulation, which may explain its anti-invasive properties. We also observed that GAPDS has potent anticancer activity in vivo. Our study indicates that strategies to target the secondary functions of anticancer candidates may yield potent therapeutics and useful chemical probes.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping