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Med Chem Res. 2020 Apr;29(4):607-616. doi: 10.1007/s00044-019-02493-4. Epub 2020 Feb 26.

Repression of the transcriptional activity of ERRα with sequence-specific DNA-binding polyamides.

Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents

Chien-Yu Chen, Yang Li, Tiezheng Jia, Lina He, Alissa A Hare, Amanda Silberstein, John Gallagher, Thomas F Martinez, Joseph W Stiles, Bogdan Olenyuk, Peter B Dervan, Bangyan L Stiles

Affiliations

  1. Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
  2. Present address: Amgen Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799, USA.
  3. Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
  4. Present address: SUSTECH, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province 518055, P. R. China.
  5. Present address: Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
  6. Present address: Westmont College, 955 La Paz Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, USA.
  7. Present address: Salk Institute, 10010 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
  8. Present address: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
  9. Present address: PRISM, 505 Coast Blvd. S., Suite 206, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

PMID: 34552311 PMCID: PMC8455084 DOI: 10.1007/s00044-019-02493-4

Abstract

The orphan nuclear receptors estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) bind to the estrogen-related receptor response element (ERRE) to regulate transcriptional programs in cellular metabolism and cancer cell growth. In this study, we evaluated the potential for a pyrrole-imidazole polyamide to block ERRα binding to ERREs to inhibit gene expression. We demonstrated that the ERRE-targeted polyamide 1 blocked the binding of ERRα to the consensus ERRE and reduced the transcriptional activity of ERRα in cell culture. We further showed that inhibiting ERRα transcriptional activity with polyamide 1 led to reduced mitochondrial oxygen consumption, a primary biological effect regulated by ERRα. Finally, our data demonstrated that polyamide 1 is an inhibitor for cancer cell growth.

Keywords: ERRα; Mitochondria; Pyrrole-imidazole polyamide

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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