Treatment options for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma(ESCC)often result in poor prognosis and declining health-related quality of life.Screening FDA-approved drugs for cancer chemoprevention is a prom...Treatment options for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma(ESCC)often result in poor prognosis and declining health-related quality of life.Screening FDA-approved drugs for cancer chemoprevention is a promising and cost-efficient strategy.Here,we found that dronedarone,an antiarrhythmic drug,could inhibit the proliferation of ESCC cells.Moreover,we conducted phosphorylomics analysis to investigate the mechanism of dronedarone-treated ESCC cells.Through computational docking models and pull-down assays,we demonstrated that dronedarone could directly bind to CDK4 and CDK6 kinases.We also proved that dronedarone effectively inhibited ESCC proliferation by targeting CDK4/CDK6 and blocking the G0/G1 phase through RB1 phosphorylation inhibition by in vitro kinase assays and cell cycle assays.Subsequently,we found that knocking out CDK4 and CDK6 decreased the susceptibility of ESCC cells to dronedarone.Furthermore,dronedarone suppressed the growth of ESCC in patient-derived tumor xenograft models in vivo.Thus,our study demonstrated that dronedarone could be repurposed as a CDK4/6 inhibitor for ESCC chemoprevention.展开更多
Salicylaldehyde containing biaryls are efficiently synthesized via an unprecedented amine promoted Diels-Alderretro-Diels-Alder cascade reaction of ynals with 2-pyrones in good yields.The reaction is instrumentally me...Salicylaldehyde containing biaryls are efficiently synthesized via an unprecedented amine promoted Diels-Alderretro-Diels-Alder cascade reaction of ynals with 2-pyrones in good yields.The reaction is instrumentally metalfree,operationally simple and mild,and tolerates a diverse array of functional groups.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81872335)Central Plains Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents(No.224200510015)+2 种基金National Natural Science Youth Foundation(No.81902486)Fundamental Research Project of key scientific research in Henan Province(No.23ZX007)Science and Technology Project of Henan Province(No.212102310187)。
文摘Treatment options for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma(ESCC)often result in poor prognosis and declining health-related quality of life.Screening FDA-approved drugs for cancer chemoprevention is a promising and cost-efficient strategy.Here,we found that dronedarone,an antiarrhythmic drug,could inhibit the proliferation of ESCC cells.Moreover,we conducted phosphorylomics analysis to investigate the mechanism of dronedarone-treated ESCC cells.Through computational docking models and pull-down assays,we demonstrated that dronedarone could directly bind to CDK4 and CDK6 kinases.We also proved that dronedarone effectively inhibited ESCC proliferation by targeting CDK4/CDK6 and blocking the G0/G1 phase through RB1 phosphorylation inhibition by in vitro kinase assays and cell cycle assays.Subsequently,we found that knocking out CDK4 and CDK6 decreased the susceptibility of ESCC cells to dronedarone.Furthermore,dronedarone suppressed the growth of ESCC in patient-derived tumor xenograft models in vivo.Thus,our study demonstrated that dronedarone could be repurposed as a CDK4/6 inhibitor for ESCC chemoprevention.
基金The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21738002).
文摘Salicylaldehyde containing biaryls are efficiently synthesized via an unprecedented amine promoted Diels-Alderretro-Diels-Alder cascade reaction of ynals with 2-pyrones in good yields.The reaction is instrumentally metalfree,operationally simple and mild,and tolerates a diverse array of functional groups.
