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Histone acetyltransferases: challenges in targeting bi-substrate enzymes
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Wapenaar H
; Dekker FJ
Clin Epigenetics
2016[]; 8
(ä): 59
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Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) are epigenetic enzymes that install acetyl
groups onto lysine residues of cellular proteins such as histones, transcription
factors, nuclear receptors, and enzymes. HATs have been shown to play a role in
diseases ranging from cancer and inflammatory diseases to neurological disorders,
both through acetylations of histone proteins and non-histone proteins. Several
HAT inhibitors, like bi-substrate inhibitors, natural product derivatives, small
molecules, and protein-protein interaction inhibitors, have been developed.
Despite their potential, a large gap remains between the biological activity of
inhibitors in in vitro studies and their potential use as therapeutic agents. To
bridge this gap, new potent HAT inhibitors with improved properties need to be
developed. However, several challenges have been encountered in the investigation
of HATs and HAT inhibitors that hinder the development of new HAT inhibitors.
HATs have been shown to function in complexes consisting of many proteins. These
complexes play a role in the activity and target specificity of HATs, which
limits the translation of in vitro to in vivo experiments. The current HAT
inhibitors suffer from undesired properties like anti-oxidant activity,
reactivity, instability, low potency, or lack of selectivity between HAT subtypes
and other enzymes. A characteristic feature of HATs is that they are bi-substrate
enzymes that catalyze reactions between two substrates: the cofactor acetyl
coenzyme A (Ac-CoA) and a lysine-containing substrate. This has important-but
frequently overlooked-consequences for the determination of the inhibitory
potency of small molecule HAT inhibitors and the reproducibility of enzyme
inhibition experiments. We envision that a careful characterization of molecular
aspects of HATs and HAT inhibitors, such as the HAT catalytic mechanism and the
enzyme kinetics of small molecule HAT inhibitors, will greatly improve the
development of potent and selective HAT inhibitors and provide validated starting
points for further development towards therapeutic agents.