Abstract
Lysyl-tRNA synthetase (KRS), a protein synthesis enzyme in the cytosol, relocates to the plasma membrane after a laminin signal and stabilizes a 67-kDa laminin receptor (67LR) that is implicated in cancer metastasis; however, its potential as an antimetastatic therapeutic target has not been explored. We found that the small compound BC-K-YH16899, which binds KRS, impinged on the interaction of KRS with 67LR and suppressed metastasis in three different mouse models. The compound inhibited the KRS-67LR interaction in two ways. First, it directly blocked the association between KRS and 67LR. Second, it suppressed the dynamic movement of the N-terminal extension of KRS and reduced membrane localization of KRS. However, it did not affect the catalytic activity of KRS. Our results suggest that specific modulation of a cancer-related KRS-67LR interaction may offer a way to control metastasis while avoiding the toxicities associated with inhibition of the normal functions of KRS.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 29-34 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Nature Chemical Biology |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Jan |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Global Frontier Project (grants NRF-M1AXA002-2010-0029785 (S.K.), NRF-M1AXA002-2010-0029765 (Y.H.J.), NRF-2012M3A6A4054271 (J.W.L.) and NRF-2012-054237 (B.W.H.)), the World Class University (grant R31-2008-000-10086-0 (G.H.)), the Proteogenomic Research Program (2012M3A9B9036679 (C.L.)) and by the National Research Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea (grant ROA-2012-0006262 (A.M.)). This study was also funded by the Ministry for Health and Welfare Affairs of Korea through the Korea Healthcare Technology Research and Development Project (A092255 (D.-H.N.)) and by a grant from Gyeonggi Research Development Program (S.K.). This work was supported in part by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (GM100136 (M.G.)); the US National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research through DMR-11-57490 (A.G. Marshall, Florida State University); by the state of Florida (M.G.) and by a Kimmel Scholar Award for Cancer Research (M.G.). We appreciate A.G. Marshall for supporting the HDX-MS program and facility, M.-S. Seok (Korea University) for the preparation of the nanodisc and S.W. Lee (Sungkyunkwan University) for X-ray analysis.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology