Abstract:
:Current therapeutic interventions for both heart disease and heart failure are largely insufficient and associated with undesired side effects. Biomedical research has emphasized the role of sarcomeric protein function for the normal performance and energy efficiency of the heart, suggesting that directly targeting the contractile myofilaments themselves using small molecule effectors has therapeutic potential and will likely result in greater drug efficacy and selectivity. In this study, we developed a robust and highly reproducible fluorescence polarization-based high throughput screening (HTS) assay that directly targets the calcium-dependent interaction between cardiac troponin C (cTnC) and the switch region of cardiac troponin I (cTnISP), with the aim of identifying small molecule effectors of the cardiac thin filament activation pathway. We screened a commercially available small molecule library and identified several hit compounds with both inhibitory and activating effects. We used a range of biophysical and biochemical methods to characterize hit compounds and identified fingolimod, a sphingosin-1-phosphate receptor modulator, as a new troponin-based small molecule effector. Fingolimod decreased the ATPase activity and calcium sensitivity of demembranated cardiac muscle fibers in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that the compound acts as a calcium desensitizer. We investigated fingolimod's mechanism of action using a combination of computational studies, biophysical methods, and synthetic chemistry, showing that fingolimod bound to cTnC repels cTnISP via mainly electrostatic repulsion of its positively charged tail. These results suggest that fingolimod is a potential new lead compound/scaffold for the development of troponin-directed heart failure therapeutics.
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ACS Chem Bioljournal_title
ACS chemical biologyauthors
Parijat P,Kondacs L,Alexandrovich A,Gautel M,Cobb AJA,Kampourakis Tdoi
10.1021/acschembio.0c00908subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2021-01-15 00:00:00pages
225-235issue
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1554-8929issn
1554-8937journal_volume
16pub_type
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