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In vitro studies in a myelogenous leukemia cell line suggest an organized binding of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase inhibitors
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In vitro studies in a myelogenous leukemia cell line suggest an organized binding of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase inhibitors

Jacqueline E Reilly, Xiang Zhou, Huaxiang Tong, Craig H Kuder, David F Wiemer and Raymond J Hohl
Biochemical pharmacology, Vol.96(2), pp.83-92
07/15/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2015.04.009
PMCID: PMC4831703
PMID: 25952057
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/4831703View
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Abstract

A small set of isoprenoid bisphosphonates ethers has been tested in the K562 chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line to determine their impact on isoprenoid biosynthesis. Five of these compounds inhibit geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGDPS) with IC50 values below 1μM in enzyme assays, but in cells their apparent activity is more varied. In particular, the isomeric C-geranyl-O-prenyl and C-prenyl-O-geranyl bisphosphonates are quite different in their activity with the former consistently demonstrating greater impairment of geranylgeranylation in cells but the latter showing greater impact in the enzyme assays with GGDPS. Together, these findings suggest an organized binding of these inhibitors in the two hydrophobic channels of the geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase enzyme.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) Bisphosphonate Protein isoprenylation Statin Isoprenoid Geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase

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