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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 333, Issue 1-2, Pages 159-167Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-009-0216-0
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CK2; HTS; Crystallography; Small molecule inhibitor; Cell growth inhibition
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Protein kinase CK2 (CK2) is a highly conserved and ubiquitous serine/threonine kinase. It is a multifunctional and pleiotropic protein kinase implicated in the regulation of cell proliferation, survival, and differentiation. Deregulation of CK2 is observed in a wide variety of tumors. It has been the focus of intensive research efforts to establish the cause-effect relationship between CK2 and neoplastic growth. Here, we further validate the role of CK2 in cancer cell growth using siRNA approach. We also screened a library of more than 200,000 compounds and identified several molecules, which inhibit CK2 with IC50 < 1 mu M. The binding mode of a representative compound with maize CK2 was determined. In addition, the cellular activity of the compounds was demonstrated by their inhibition of phosphorylation of PTEN Ser370 in HCT116 cells. Treatment of a variety of cancer cell lines with the newly identified CK2 inhibitor significantly blocked cell growth with IC(50)s as low as 300 nM.
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