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- Title
8a, a New Acridine Antiproliferative and Pro-Apoptotic Agent Targeting HDAC1/DNMT1.
- Authors
Zhang, Qiting; Wang, Ziyan; Chen, Xinyuan; Qiu, Haoxiang; Gu, Yifan; Wang, Ning; Wang, Tao; Wang, Ze; Ma, Huabin; Zhao, Yufen; Zhang, Bin
- Abstract
Epigenetic therapy using histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors has become an attractive project in new drug development. However, DNA methylation and histone acetylation are important epigenetic ways to regulate the occurrence and development of leukemia. Given previous studies, N-(2-aminophenyl)benzamide acridine (8a), as a histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) inhibitor, induces apoptosis and shows significant anti-proliferative activity against histiocytic lymphoma U937 cells. HDAC1 plays a role in the nucleus, which we confirmed by finding that 8a entered the nucleus. Subsequently, we verified that 8a mainly passes through the endogenous (mitochondrial) pathway to induce cell apoptosis. From the protein interaction data, we found that 8a also affected the expression of DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1). Therefore, an experiment was performed to assess the binding of 8a to DNMT1 at the molecular and cellular levels. We found that the binding strength of 8a to DNMT1 enhanced in a dose-dependent manner. Additionally, 8a inhibits the expression of DNMT1 mRNA and its protein. These findings suggested that the anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic activities of 8a against leukemia cells were achieved by targeting HDAC1 and DNMT1.
- Subjects
EPIGENETICS; ACRIDINE; DIFFUSE large B-cell lymphomas; HISTONE deacetylase; DRUG development; HISTONE acetylation
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 11, p5516
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms22115516