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2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Selective modification of histone methylation using DNA binding-small molecules

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 26350977
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Chemical biology
Research InstitutionChiba University

Principal Investigator

Shinohara Ken-ichi  千葉大学, 大学院医学研究院, 特任助教 (70378561)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) KANEDA Atsushi  千葉大学, 大学院医学研究院, 教授 (10313024)
NEMOTO Tetsuhiro  千葉大学, 大学院薬学研究院, 特任助教 (80361450)
SUZUKI Takayoshi  京都府立医科大学, 大学院医学研究科, 教授 (90372838)
SUGIYAMA Hiroshi  京都大学, 大学院理学研究科, 教授 (50183843)
NAGASE Hiroki  千葉県がんセンター, 研究所, 所長 (90322073)
WATANABE Takayoshi  千葉県がんセンター, 研究所, 研究員 (60526060)
Research Collaborator YODA Natsumi  
FUKUYO Masaki  
TAKANE Kiyoko  
FUJIWARA Kyoko  
KITA Kazuko  
FUKUDA Noboru  
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywordsピロール・イミダゾール・ポリアミド / 核酸化学 / 発現制御 / エピゲノム / ヒストンメチル化 / DNA配列認識
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Aberrant DNA methylation and histone modification cause major epigenetic changes and have been implicated in cancer growth. While drugs for epigenome such as SAHA and decitabine can be available for cancer treatment, site-specific modification of epigenome is now requested to be technically achieved. Pyrrole-imidazole polyamides are small molecules that can be designed to recognize and bind to particular DNA sequences. In this study, we synthesized PIP-LSD1 inhibitor conjugates and investigated whether the conjugates show site-selective changing of histone methylation. The results in this study indicate that PIP-inhibitor conjugates induced histone methylation where single inhibitor could not change. In addition, it is shown that PIP can act as sequence-specific antagonists of CpG methylation in living cells.

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Published: 2018-03-22  

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