Discovery of human lactate dehydrogenase 5 inhibitors (hLDH5) with anti-lung cancer activity through an in silico method and biological validation.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters(2019)
Abstract
Human lactate dehydrogenase 5 (hLDH5) is an important metabolic enzyme playing critical roles in the anaerobic glycolysis. Herein, we employed an in silico method and biological validation to identify a novel hLDH5 inhibitor with a promising cellular activity under hypoxia condition. The identified compound 9 bound to hLDH5 with a Kd value of 1.02 µM, and inhibited the enzyme with an EC50 value of 0.7 µM. Compound 9 exhibited a weak potency against NCI-H1975 cell proliferation under normal condition (IC50 = 36.5 µM), while dramatically increased to 5.7 µM under hypoxia condition. In line with the observation, hLDH5 expression in NCI-H1975 cell under hypoxia condition is much higher as compared to the normal oxygenated condition, indicating the hLDH5 inhibition may contribute to the cancer cell death.
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