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Target deconvolution of HDAC pharmacopoeia reveals MBLAC2 as common off-target

  • Nat Chem Biol. 2022 Aug;18(8):812-820. doi: 10.1038/s41589-022-01015-5.
Severin Lechner 1 Martin Ian P Malgapo 2 Christian Grätz 3 Raphael R Steimbach 4 5 Agnes Baron 1 Patrick Rüther 1 Simon Nadal 1 Carmen Stumpf 1 Christina Loos 1 Xin Ku 1 Polina Prokofeva 1 Ludwig Lautenbacher 6 Tino Heimburg 7 Vivian Würf 8 Chen Meng 9 Mathias Wilhelm 6 Wolfgang Sippl 7 Karin Kleigrewe 9 Josch K Pauling 8 Karl Kramer 1 Aubry K Miller 4 10 Michael W Pfaffl 3 Maurine E Linder 2 Bernhard Kuster 1 9 Guillaume Médard 11
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
  • 2 Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • 3 Animal Physiology and Immunology, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
  • 4 Cancer Drug Development, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 5 Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 6 Computational Mass Spectrometry, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
  • 7 Institute of Pharmacy, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
  • 8 LipiTUM, Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
  • 9 Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS), Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
  • 10 German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 11 Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. [email protected].
Abstract

Drugs that target histone deacetylase (HDAC) entered the pharmacopoeia in the 2000s. However, some enigmatic phenotypes suggest off-target engagement. Here, we developed a quantitative chemical proteomics assay using immobilized HDAC inhibitors and mass spectrometry that we deployed to establish the target landscape of 53 drugs. The assay covers 9 of the 11 human zinc-dependent HDACs, questions the reported selectivity of some widely-used molecules (notably for HDAC6) and delineates how the composition of HDAC complexes influences drug potency. Unexpectedly, metallo-β-lactamase domain-containing protein 2 (MBLAC2) featured as a frequent off-target of hydroxamate drugs. This poorly characterized palmitoyl-CoA hydrolase is inhibited by 24 HDAC inhibitors at low nanomolar potency. MBLAC2 enzymatic inhibition and knockdown led to the accumulation of extracellular vesicles. Given the importance of extracellular vesicle biology in neurological diseases and Cancer, this HDAC-independent drug effect may qualify MBLAC2 as a target for drug discovery.

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