Novel Potent Autophagy Inhibitors for Melanoma

本项目旨在开发新的化疗药物，用于治疗 黑色素瘤的自噬抑制策略。自噬是一种细胞内溶酶体依赖性的 保护癌细胞免受肿瘤内代谢和治疗应激的降解过程 微环境氯喹（CQ）衍生物的自噬抑制增强了许多抗肿瘤药物的疗效。 抗癌疗法，但作为单一药物治疗的活性有限，尽管发现了高水平的自噬 在大多数肿瘤中许多临床试验正在测试各种抗癌药物与Ji的组合。 羟氯喹（HCQ），一种氯喹的类似物，但已经提出了关于其效力的担忧。 HCQ，以及其鲜为人知的作用机制。 我们已经制备了二聚体双氨基喹啉自噬抑制剂，体外效价提高10倍 在体内的作用比CQ或HCQ强。我们的假设是，新的抑制剂LysOS是一种更有效的抑制剂， 与标准单价CQ衍生物相比，其在溶酶体内具有特异性未鉴定的靶标。我们的具体目标 是：1）确定表征最有效的双氨基喹啉自噬的化学决定簇 黑色素瘤细胞的抑制剂; 2）确定LysOS和第二代LysOS的分子靶标 黑色素瘤细胞中的双氨基喹啉自噬抑制剂;和3）表征黑色素瘤细胞的命运 用BAI单独治疗和与现有的和新的黑素瘤靶向疗法组合治疗的细胞。 这些研究的结果将是开发出有效的自噬抑制剂， 目标和作用机制，将是有前途的药物开发候选人的治疗 黑素瘤

This project is directed toward the development of new chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of melanoma based on the strategy of autophagy inhibition. Autophagy is an intracellular lysosome-dependent degradative process that protects cancer cells from metabolic and therapeutic stress within the tumor microenvironment. Autophagy inhibition with chloroqulne (CQ) derivatives augments the efficacy of many anticancer therapies, but has limited activity as a single agent therapy despite high levels of autophagy found in most tumors. Numerous clinical trials are testing the combination of variety of anticancer agents witJi hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an analog of chloroqulne, but concerns have been raised about the potency of HCQ, and its pooriy understood mechanism of action. We have prepared dimeric bisaminoquinoline autophagy inhibitors that are ca. 10x more potent in vitro and in vivo than CQ or HCQ. Our hypothesis is that the new inhibitor LysOS is a more effective inhibitor of a specific unidentified target within the lysosome than standard monovalent CQ derivatives. Our specific aims are: 1) to identify the chemical determinants that characterize the most potent bisaminoquinoline autophagy inhibitors for melanoma cells; 2) to identify the molecular target of LysOS and second-generation bisaminoquinoline autophagy inhibitors in melanoma cells; and 3) to characterize the fates of melanoma cells treated with BAIs, alone and in combination with existing and novel targeted therapies for melanoma. The result of these studies will be the development of potent autophagy inhibitors with known molecular targets and mechanisms of action that will be promising drug development candidates for the treatment of melanoma.