eprintid: 10121644 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/12/16/44 datestamp: 2021-02-15 16:22:21 lastmod: 2021-10-06 22:56:58 status_changed: 2021-02-15 16:22:21 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Singh, V creators_name: Bhoir, S creators_name: Chikhale, RV creators_name: Hussain, J creators_name: Dwyer, D creators_name: Bryce, RA creators_name: Kirubakaran, S creators_name: De Benedetti, A title: Generation of Phenothiazine with Potent Anti-TLK1 Activity for Prostate Cancer Therapy ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D10 keywords: Cancer, Medical Biochemistry, Structural Biology note: © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: Through in vitro kinase assays and docking studies, we report the synthesis and biological evaluation of a phenothiazine analog J54 with potent TLK1 inhibitory activity for prostate cancer (PCa) therapy. Most PCa deaths result from progressive failure in standard androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), leading to metastatic castration-resistant PCa. Treatments that can suppress the conversion to mCRPC have high potential to be rapidly implemented in the clinics. ADT results in increased expression of TLK1B, a key kinase upstream of NEK1 and ATR and mediating the DNA damage response that typically results in temporary cell-cycle arrest of androgen-responsive PCa cells, whereas its abrogation leads to apoptosis. We studied J54 as a potent inhibitor of this axis and as a mediator of apoptosis in vitro and in LNCaP xenografts, which has potential for clinical investigation in combination with ADT. J54 has low affinity for the dopamine receptor in modeling and competition studies and weak detrimental behavioral effects in mice and C. elegans. date: 2020-08-20 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101474 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub pmcid: PMC7486443 language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1846466 doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101474 pii: S2589-0042(20)30666-0 lyricists_name: Chikhale, Rupesh lyricists_id: RCHIK73 actors_name: Salunke, Smita actors_name: Harris, Jean actors_id: SSALU59 actors_id: JAHAR68 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: public publication: iScience volume: 23 number: 9 article_number: 101474 event_location: United States citation: Singh, V; Bhoir, S; Chikhale, RV; Hussain, J; Dwyer, D; Bryce, RA; Kirubakaran, S; Singh, V; Bhoir, S; Chikhale, RV; Hussain, J; Dwyer, D; Bryce, RA; Kirubakaran, S; De Benedetti, A; - view fewer <#> (2020) Generation of Phenothiazine with Potent Anti-TLK1 Activity for Prostate Cancer Therapy. iScience , 23 (9) , Article 101474. 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101474 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101474>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121644/1/Generation%20of%20Phenothiazine%20with%20Potent%20Anti-TLK1%20Activity%20for%20Prostate%20Cancer%20Therapy.pdf