Contribution of telomere G-quadruplex stabilization to the inhibition of telomerase-mediated telomere extension by chemical ligands. Chen, C., Wang, Q., Liu, J., Hao, Y., & Tan, Z. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(38):15036–44, October, 2011.
Contribution of telomere G-quadruplex stabilization to the inhibition of telomerase-mediated telomere extension by chemical ligands. [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Inhibition of telomerase activity through stabilizing telomere G-quadruplex with small chemical ligands is emerging as a novel strategy for cancer therapy. For the large number of ligands that have been reported to inhibit telomerase activity, it is difficult to validate the contribution of G-quadruplex stabilization to the overall inhibition. Using a modified telomere repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) method to differentiate the telomere G-quadruplex independent effect from dependent ones, we analyzed several ligands that have high affinity and/or selectivity to telomere G-quadruplex. Our results show that these ligands effectively inhibited telomerase activity in the absence of telomere G-quadruplex. The expected G-quadruplex-dependent inhibition was only obvious for the cationic ligands at low K(+) concentration, but it dramatically decreased at physiological concentration of K(+). These observations demonstrate that the ligands are much more than G-quadruplex stabilizers with a strong G-quadruplex-irrelevant off-target effect. They inhibit telomerase via multiple pathways in which stabilization of telomere G-quadruplex may only make a minor or neglectable contribution under physiologically relevant conditions depending on the stability of telomere G-quadruplex under ligand-free conditions.
@article{Chen2011,
	title = {Contribution of telomere {G}-quadruplex stabilization to the inhibition of telomerase-mediated telomere extension by chemical ligands.},
	volume = {133},
	issn = {1520-5126},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21846102},
	doi = {10.1021/ja204326w},
	abstract = {Inhibition of telomerase activity through stabilizing telomere G-quadruplex with small chemical ligands is emerging as a novel strategy for cancer therapy. For the large number of ligands that have been reported to inhibit telomerase activity, it is difficult to validate the contribution of G-quadruplex stabilization to the overall inhibition. Using a modified telomere repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) method to differentiate the telomere G-quadruplex independent effect from dependent ones, we analyzed several ligands that have high affinity and/or selectivity to telomere G-quadruplex. Our results show that these ligands effectively inhibited telomerase activity in the absence of telomere G-quadruplex. The expected G-quadruplex-dependent inhibition was only obvious for the cationic ligands at low K(+) concentration, but it dramatically decreased at physiological concentration of K(+). These observations demonstrate that the ligands are much more than G-quadruplex stabilizers with a strong G-quadruplex-irrelevant off-target effect. They inhibit telomerase via multiple pathways in which stabilization of telomere G-quadruplex may only make a minor or neglectable contribution under physiologically relevant conditions depending on the stability of telomere G-quadruplex under ligand-free conditions.},
	number = {38},
	journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
	author = {Chen, Chang-yue and Wang, Quan and Liu, Jia-quan and Hao, Yu-hua and Tan, Zheng},
	month = oct,
	year = {2011},
	pmid = {21846102},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Carbazoles, Carbazoles: chemistry, Carbazoles: pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, G-Quadruplexes, Humans, Indoles, Indoles: chemistry, Indoles: pharmacology, Ligands, Organometallic Compounds, Organometallic Compounds: chemistry, Organometallic Compounds: pharmacology, Pyridinium Compounds, Pyridinium Compounds: chemistry, Pyridinium Compounds: pharmacology, Structure-Activity Relationship, Telomerase, Telomerase: antagonists \& inhibitors, Telomerase: genetics, Telomerase: metabolism, Telomere, Telomere: chemistry},
	pages = {15036--44},
}

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