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PROTAC-Induced Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3β Degradation as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease.

Melissa GuardigniLetizia PruccoliAlan SantiniAngela De SimoneMatteo BersaniFrancesca SpyrakisFlavia FrabettiElisa UliassiVincenza AndrisanoBarbara PagliaraniPaula Fernández-GómezValle PalomoMaria Laura BolognesiAndrea TarozziAndrea Milelli
Published in: ACS chemical neuroscience (2023)
Glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β) is a serine/threonine kinase and an attractive therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease. Based on proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology, a small set of novel GSK-3β degraders was designed and synthesized by linking two different GSK-3β inhibitors, SB-216763 and tideglusib, to pomalidomide, as E3 recruiting element, through linkers of different lengths. Compound 1 emerged as the most effective PROTAC being nontoxic up to 20 μM to neuronal cells and already able to degrade GSK-3β starting from 0.5 μM in a dose-dependent manner. PROTAC 1 significantly reduced the neurotoxicity induced by Aβ 25-35 peptide and CuSO 4 in SH-SY5Y cells in a dose-dependent manner. Based on its encouraging features, PROTAC 1 may serve as a starting point to develop new GSK-3β degraders as potential therapeutic agents.
Keyphrases
  • pi k akt
  • signaling pathway
  • cell cycle arrest
  • induced apoptosis
  • protein kinase
  • tyrosine kinase
  • oxidative stress
  • cell death
  • mild cognitive impairment
  • brain injury
  • high glucose