Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2013,9, 544–556, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.60
and, as we show, represents a unique and useful tool to probe tumorHsp90 biology in live cells by affinity capture, flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. To our knowledge, 2g is the only reported biotinylated Hsp90 probe to have such combined characteristics.
Keywords: affinity capture; biotin
; flow cytometry; fluorescence microscopy; PU-H71; tumorHsp90; Introduction
Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a molecular chaperone that functions to properly fold proteins to their active conformation through its ATPase activity [1]. These client proteins include many that are involved in malignant
interest is the purine scaffold, including its representative PU-H71 (1a). This agent, currently in clinical investigation for cancer, binds to the N-terminal nucleotide binding pocket of Hsp90 [12].
We have shown that PU-H71 selects for tumorHsp90 species, and therefore labeled derivatives of PU-H71 may
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Figure 1:
Design of the biotinylated Hsp90 probes based on PU-H71 (1a).