TY - JOUR
T1 - Inhibition of Delta-induced Notch signaling using fucose analogs
AU - Schneider, Michael
AU - Kumar, Vivek
AU - Nordstrøm, Lars Ulrik
AU - Feng, Lei
AU - Takeuchi, Hideyuki
AU - Hao, Huilin
AU - Luca, Vincent C.
AU - Garcia, K. Christopher
AU - Stanley, Pamela
AU - Wu, Peng
AU - Haltiwanger, Robert S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NIH grants R01GM061126 (R.S.H.), R01GM093282 (P.W.), R01GM106417 (P.S.) and K99CA204738 (V.C.L.). M.S. was partially supported by T32GM00844. We thank the following for providing materials: J. Nye (Northwestern University Medical School), S. Chiba (University of Tokyo), G. Bornkamm (Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen), G. Weinmater (UCLA), S. Blacklow (Harvard), S. Kakuda (Stony Brook University), and C. Guidos (University of Toronto).
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Notch is a cell-surface receptor that controls cell-fate decisions and is regulated by O-glycans attached to epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats in its extracellular domain. Protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 (Pofut1) modifies EGF repeats with O-fucose and is essential for Notch signaling. Constitutive activation of Notch signaling has been associated with a variety of human malignancies. Therefore, tools that inhibit Notch activity are being developed as cancer therapeutics. To this end, we screened L-fucose analogs for their effects on Notch signaling. Two analogs, 6-alkynyl and 6-alkenyl fucose, were substrates of Pofut1 and were incorporated directly into Notch EGF repeats in cells. Both analogs were potent inhibitors of binding to and activation of Notch1 by Notch ligands Dll1 and Dll4, but not by Jag1. Mutagenesis and modeling studies suggest that incorporation of the analogs into EGF8 of Notch1 markedly reduces the ability of Delta ligands to bind and activate Notch1.
AB - Notch is a cell-surface receptor that controls cell-fate decisions and is regulated by O-glycans attached to epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats in its extracellular domain. Protein O-fucosyltransferase 1 (Pofut1) modifies EGF repeats with O-fucose and is essential for Notch signaling. Constitutive activation of Notch signaling has been associated with a variety of human malignancies. Therefore, tools that inhibit Notch activity are being developed as cancer therapeutics. To this end, we screened L-fucose analogs for their effects on Notch signaling. Two analogs, 6-alkynyl and 6-alkenyl fucose, were substrates of Pofut1 and were incorporated directly into Notch EGF repeats in cells. Both analogs were potent inhibitors of binding to and activation of Notch1 by Notch ligands Dll1 and Dll4, but not by Jag1. Mutagenesis and modeling studies suggest that incorporation of the analogs into EGF8 of Notch1 markedly reduces the ability of Delta ligands to bind and activate Notch1.
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U2 - 10.1038/nchembio.2520
DO - 10.1038/nchembio.2520
M3 - Article
C2 - 29176671
AN - SCOPUS:85037744593
SN - 1552-4450
VL - 14
SP - 65
EP - 71
JO - Nature Chemical Biology
JF - Nature Chemical Biology
IS - 1
ER -
