Journal article
Promising Tools in Prostate Cancer Research: Selective Non-Steroidal Cytochrome P450 17A1 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P450 17A1 (CYP17A1) is an important target in the treatment of prostate cancer because it produces androgens required for tumour growth. The FDA has approved only one CYP17A1 inhibitor, abiraterone, which contains a steroidal scaffold similar to the endogenous CYP17A1 substrates. Abiraterone is structurally similar to the substrates of other cytochrome P450 enzymes involved in steroidogenesis, and interference can pose a liability in terms of side effects.
Using non-steroidal scaffolds is expected to enable the design of compounds that interact more selectively with CYP17A1. Therefore, we combined a structure-based virtual screening approach with density functional theory (DFT) calculations to suggest non-steroidal compounds selective for CYP17A1. In vitro assays demonstrated that two such compounds selectively inhibited CYP17A1 17α-hydroxylase and 17,20-lyase activities with IC50 values in the nanomolar range, without affinity for the major drug-metabolizing CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 enzymes and CYP21A2, with the latter result confirmed in human H295R cells.
Language: | Undetermined |
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Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 29468 |
ISSN: | 20452322 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1038/srep29468 |
ORCIDs: | Styrishave, Bjarne and Jørgensen, Flemming Steen |
Androstenes CYP17A1 protein, human Catalytic Domain Cell Line, Tumor Cell Survival Chromatography, Liquid Crystallography, X-Ray Drug Design Humans Inhibitory Concentration 50 Ligands Male Mass Spectrometry Molecular Docking Simulation Nitrogen Prostate Prostatic Neoplasms Protein Binding Steroid 17-alpha-Hydroxylase Steroids abiraterone