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Small molecule-mediated induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress in cancer cells
Author(s) -
Shalini Pandey,
Virender Kumar Sharma,
Ankur Biswas,
Mayurika Lahiri,
Sudipta Basu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rsc medicinal chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 55
ISSN - 2632-8682
DOI - 10.1039/d1md00095k
Subject(s) - endoplasmic reticulum , microbiology and biotechnology , unfolded protein response , chemistry , cancer research , biology
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is one of the crucial sub-cellular organelles controlling myriads of functions including protein biosynthesis, folding, misfolding and unfolding. As a result, dysregulation of these pathways in the ER is implicated in cancer development and progression. Subsequently, targeting the ER in cancer cells emerged as an interesting unorthodox strategy in next-generation anticancer therapy. However, development of small molecules to selectively target the ER for cancer therapy remained elusive and unexplored. To address this, herein, we have developed a novel small molecule library of sulfonylhydrazide-hydrazones through a short and concise chemical synthetic strategy. We identified a fluorescent small molecule that localized into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of HeLa cells, induced ER stress followed by triggering autophagy which was subsequently inhibited by chloroquine (autophagy inhibitor) to initiate apoptosis. This small molecule showed remarkable cancer cell killing efficacy in different cancer cells as mono and combination therapy with chloroquine, thus opening a new direction to illuminate ER-biology towards the development of novel anticancer therapeutics.

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