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    Plyasova, Anna A; Berrino, Emanuela; Khan, Irina I; Veselovsky, Alexander V; Pokrovsky, Vadim S; Angeli, Andrea; Ferraroni, Marta; Supuran, Claudiu T; Pokrovskaya, Marina V; Alexandrova, Svetlana S; Gladilina, Yulia A; Sokolov, Nikolay N; Hilal, Abdullah; Carta, Fabrizio; Zhdanov, Dmitry D

    Journal of medicinal chemistry, 08/2021, Letnik: 64, Številka: 15
    Journal Article

    Human (h) telomerase (TL; EC 2.7.7.49) plays a key role in sustaining cancer cells by means of elongating telomeric repeats at the 3′ ends of chromosomes. Since TL-inhibitor (TI) stand-alone cancer therapy has been proven to be remarkably challenging, a polypharmacological approach represents a valid alternative. Here we consider a series of compounds able to inhibit both hTL and the tumor-associated carbonic anhydrases (CAs; EC 4.2.1.1) IX and XII. Compounds 7 and 9 suppressed hTL activity in both cell lysates and human colon cancer cell lines, and prolonged incubation with either 7 or 9 resulted in telomere shortening, cell cycle arrest, replicative senescence, and apoptosis. Enzyme kinetics showed that 7 and 9 are mixed-type inhibitors of the binding of DNA primers and deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) to the TL catalytic subunit hTERT, which is in agreement with docking experiments. Compound 9 showed antitumor activity in Colo-205 mouse xenografts and suppressed telomerase activity by telomere reduction.