Jadomycin B, an Aurora-B kinase inhibitor discovered through virtual screening

摘要

@@ Aurora kinases are clearly implicated in tumorgenesis and have emerged as promising targets for cancer therapy in recent years. In a virtual screening attempt, 22 compounds were identified from nearly 15,000 microbial natural products as potential small-molecule inhibitors of human Aurora-B kinase. When tested in yeast models, 2 compounds (one is Jadomycin B) showed preferential inhibition of ipll-321 (yeast Aurora kinase temperature sensitive mutant) than wild type yeast cell, suggesting these compounds are true Aurora kinase inhibitors. Further in vitro biochemical assay using purified recombinant Aurora-B kinase showed Jadomycin B inhibits Aurora-B activity in a dose-dependent fashion while two Jadomycin congeners, Jadomycin S and T, showed no activity.