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Difluoromethyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles are slow-binding substrate analog inhibitors of histone deacetylase 6 with unprecedented isotype selectivity

Edoardo Cellupica, Gianluca Caprini, Paola Cordella, C.D. Cukier, Gianluca Fossati, Mattia Marchini, Ilaria Rocchio, Giovanni Sandrone, Maria A. Vanoni, Barbara Vergani, Karol Źrubek, Andrea Stevenazzi, Christian Steinkühler

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Abstract

Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is an attractive drug development target because of its role in the immune response, neuropathy, and cancer. Knockout mice develop normally and have no apparent phenotype, suggesting that selective inhibitors should have an excellent therapeutic window. Unfortunately, current HDAC6 inhibitors have only moderate selectivity and may inhibit other HDAC subtypes at high concentrations, potentially leading to side effects. Recently, substituted oxadiazoles have attracted attention as a promising novel HDAC inhibitor chemotype, but their mechanism of action is unknown. Here, we show that compounds containing a difluoromethyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (DFMO) moiety are potent and single-digit nanomolar inhibitors with an unprecedented greater than 104-fold selectivity for HDAC6 over all other HDAC subtypes. By combining kinetics, X-ray crystallography, and mass spectrometry, we found that DFMO derivatives are slow-binding substrate analogs of HDAC6 that undergo an enzyme-catalyzed ring opening reaction, forming a tight and long-lived enzyme–inhibitor complex. The elucidation of the mechanism of action of DFMO derivatives paves the way for the rational design of highly selective inhibitors of HDAC6 and possibly of other HDAC subtypes as well with potentially important therapeutic implications. Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is an attractive drug development target because of its role in the immune response, neuropathy, and cancer. Knockout mice develop normally and have no apparent phenotype, suggesting that selective inhibitors should have an excellent therapeutic window. Unfortunately, current HDAC6 inhibitors have only moderate selectivity and may inhibit other HDAC subtypes at high concentrations, potentially leading to side effects. Recently, substituted oxadiazoles have attracted attention as a promising novel HDAC inhibitor chemotype, but their mechanism of action is unknown. Here, we show that compounds containing a difluoromethyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (DFMO) moiety are potent and single-digit nanomolar inhibitors with an unprecedented greater than 104-fold selectivity for HDAC6 over all other HDAC subtypes. By combining kinetics, X-ray crystallography, and mass spectrometry, we found that DFMO derivatives are slow-binding substrate analogs of HDAC6 that undergo an enzyme-catalyzed ring opening reaction, forming a tight and long-lived enzyme–inhibitor complex. The elucidation of the mechanism of action of DFMO derivatives paves the way for the rational design of highly selective inhibitors of HDAC6 and possibly of other HDAC subtypes as well with potentially important therapeutic implications. Zinc (Zn)-dependent histone deacetylases (HDACs) are a family of 11 evolutionarily related hydrolases that catalyze the removal of acyl residues from histones, non-histone proteins, and polyamines (1Shinsky S.A. Christianson D.W. Polyamine deacetylase structure and catalysis: prokaryotic acetylpolyamine amidohydrolase and eukaryotic HDAC10.Biochemistry. 2018; 57: 3105-3114Crossref PubMed Scopus (26) Google Scholar, 2Xu Y. Shi Z. Bao L. An expanding repertoire of protein acylations.Mol. Cell Proteomics. 2022; 21100193Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (22) Google Scholar, 3Xu H. Zhou J. Lin S. Deng W. Zhang Y. Xue Y. Plmd: an updated data resource of protein lysine modifications.J. Genet. Genomics. 2017; 44: 243-250Crossref PubMed Scopus (152) Google Scholar). Given the involvement of HDACs in numerous diseases, the pharmaceutical industry is pursuing the development of HDAC inhibitors (HDACis) since almost 2 decades, an effort that led to the approval of five molecules for the treatment of cancer (4Bondarev A.D. Attwood M.M. Jonsson J. Chubarev V.N. Tarasov V.V. Schiöth H.B. Recent developments of HDAC inhibitors: emerging indications and novel molecules.Br. J. Clin. Pharmacol. 2021; 87: 4577-4597Crossref PubMed Scopus (134) Google Scholar). Unfortunately, the therapeutic benefit of HDACis has been limited by side effects because of the poor selectivity of these first-generation molecules, which inhibit several to all the Zn-dependent HDAC family members, affecting crucial physiological functions. HDAC6 stands out among the 11 human isoforms, as being the only one that has two homologous tandem catalytic domains (CD1 and CD2). Furthermore, HDAC6 is mainly localized in the cytoplasm, and its main substrates are various non-histone proteins, such as α-tubulin, Foxp3, Hsp90, β-catenin, cortactin, and peroxiredoxins. HDAC6 knockout mice are viable and fertile and do not show overt physiological dysfunctions (5Zhang Y. Kwon S. Yamaguchi T. Cubizolles F. Rousseaux S. Kneissel M. et al.Mice lacking histone deacetylase 6 have hyperacetylated tubulin but are viable and develop normally.Mol. Cell Biol. 2008; 28: 1688-1701Crossref PubMed Scopus (449) Google Scholar). Also, selective HDAC6 inhibition was demonstrated to be well tolerated in both preclinical species and in human clinical trials (6Amengual J.E. Lue J.K. Ma H. Lichtenstein R. Shah B. Cremers S. et al.First-in-Class selective HDAC6 inhibitor (ACY-1215) has a highly favorable safety profile in patients with relapsed and refractory lymphoma.Oncologist. 2021; 26: 184-e366Crossref PubMed Scopus (27) Google Scholar). Since HDAC6 plays a role in regulating immune response, in the development of neuropathies and in Alzheimer’s disease, the identification of highly specific HDAC6is is of great importance (7Zhang X.H. Qin-Ma Wu H.P. Khamis M.Y. Li Y.H. Ma L.Y. et al.A Review of progress in histone deacetylase 6 inhibitors research: structural specificity and functional diversity.J. Med. Chem. 2021; 64: 1362-1391Crossref PubMed Scopus (66) Google Scholar). The classical HDACi pharmacophore consists of a Zn-binding group (ZBG), interacting with the active site Zn ion, a cap, which interacts with the outer region of the enzyme, and a linker that connects the ZBG to the cap. Most HDACis have a hydroxamic acid moiety as ZBG, a chemical group that has inherent stability and safety issues. Recently, reports on oxadiazole-based HDAC6is (Fig. S1) as a potential alternative to hydroxamates appeared, but their mechanism of action is unclear (8He X. Li Z. Zhuo X.-T. Hui Z. Xie T. Ye X.-Y. Novel selective histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitors: a patent Review (2016-2019).Recent Pat. Anticancer. Drug Discov. 2020; 15: 32-48Crossref PubMed Scopus (21) Google Scholar). Focusing on difluoromethyl-1,3,4-oxiadiazole (DFMO)-containing HDAC6is, we have been able to identify molecules with unprecedented selectivity for HDAC6 over all other HDACs and excellent drug-like properties (9Marchini M. Vergani B. Sandrone G. Rocchio I. Kachkovskyi G. Caprini G. et al.2-(4-((5-(benzo[b]Thiophen-3-yl)-1H-Tetrazol-1-yl)methyl)phenyl)-5-(difluoromethyl)-1,3,4-Oxadiazole Delivatives and Similar Compounds as Selective Inhibitors of Histone Deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) for use in Treating e.g. Peripheral Neuropathy.2022Google Scholar). Using X-ray crystallography, molecular modeling, kinetics, and rapid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, we show that DMFO-containing HDACis are actually substrate analogs of HDAC6 that undergo an enzyme-catalyzed ring hydration leading to a tight and long-lived enzyme–inhibitor complex. Our findings open the way for the development of novel HDAC6 selective inhibitors for the treatment of neuropathies and other diseases, but they also point to the intriguing possibility to use oxadiazoles in the development of selective inhibitors of other HDAC subtypes. In our medicinal chemistry program, we identified potent and selective HDAC6is in the DFMO series using in silico modeling and traditional structure–activity relationship (article in preparation). The DFMO containing inhibitor 1 (Fig. S1) (9Marchini M. Vergani B. Sandrone G. Rocchio I. Kachkovskyi G. Caprini G. et al.2-(4-((5-(benzo[b]Thiophen-3-yl)-1H-Tetrazol-1-yl)methyl)phenyl)-5-(difluoromethyl)-1,3,4-Oxadiazole Delivatives and Similar Compounds as Selective Inhibitors of Histone Deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) for use in Treating e.g. Peripheral Neuropathy.2022Google Scholar), which was selected as an example for this communication, is at least four orders of magnitude more potent on HDAC6 than on any of the other HDACs (Table 1). This selectivity is remarkable when compared with hydroxamate-based HDAC6is like ACY-1215 (Ricolinostat), ACY-241 (Citarinostat), KA2507 (10Xiao Y. Zhang X. Recent advances in small molecular modulators targeting histone deacetylase 6.Futur. Drug Discov. 2020; 2: FDD53Crossref Google Scholar), and ITF3756 (11Vergani B. Sandrone G. Marchini M. Ripamonti C. Cellupica E. Galbiati E. et al.Novel benzohydroxamate-based potent and selective histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitors bearing a pentaheterocyclic scaffold: design, synthesis, and biological evaluation.J. Med. Chem. 2019; 62: 10711-10739Crossref PubMed Scopus (32) Google Scholar) (Fig. S2 and Table S1). Furthermore, we carried out inhibition measurements to investigate the interdomain selectivity of 1 using the isolated CD1 (zHDAC6-CD1) and CD2 (zHDAC6-CD2) domains of zebrafish HDAC6. In agreement with previous works (12Miyake Y. Keusch J.J. Wang L. Saito M. Hess D. Wang X. et al.Structural insights into HDAC6 tubulin deacetylation and its selective inhibition.Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016; 12: 748-754Crossref PubMed Scopus (210) Google Scholar, 13Hai Y. Christianson D.W. Histone deacetylase 6 structure and molecular basis of catalysis and inhibition.Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016; 12: 741-747Crossref PubMed Scopus (315) Google Scholar), when tested on commercial fluorogenic substrate Fluor De Lys Green, zHDAC6-CD1 exhibited a weaker but measurable activity compared with that of zHDAC6-CD2 (data not shown). More interestingly, we found that 1 is highly selective for the CD2 domain (Tables 1 and S1). Our data confirmed that the deacetylase activity of the full-length HDAC6 on commercial fluorogenic substrate Fluor De Lys Green mainly resides in CD2 and that HDAC6is selectively target CD2 for their activity. The only crystal structure of HDAC6 CD1 complexed with an HDAC6i has recently been reported (12Miyake Y. Keusch J.J. Wang L. Saito M. Hess D. Wang X. et al.Structural insights into HDAC6 tubulin deacetylation and its selective inhibition.Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016; 12: 748-754Crossref PubMed Scopus (210) Google Scholar). In this context, the unique K330 in CD1 has been reported to interact with bound inhibitors (12Miyake Y. Keusch J.J. Wang L. Saito M. Hess D. Wang X. et al.Structural insights into HDAC6 tubulin deacetylation and its selective inhibition.Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016; 12: 748-754Crossref PubMed Scopus (210) Google Scholar, 14Osko J.D. Christianson D.W. Structural basis of catalysis and inhibition of HDAC6 CD1, the enigmatic catalytic domain of histone deacetylase 6.Biochemistry. 2019; 58: 4912-4924Crossref PubMed Scopus (35) Google Scholar) and to confer specificity for the deacetylation of peptide substrates bearing C-terminal acetyl-lysine residues (13Hai Y. Christianson D.W. Histone deacetylase 6 structure and molecular basis of catalysis and inhibition.Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016; 12: 741-747Crossref PubMed Scopus (315) Google Scholar, 14Osko J.D. Christianson D.W. Structural basis of catalysis and inhibition of HDAC6 CD1, the enigmatic catalytic domain of histone deacetylase 6.Biochemistry. 2019; 58: 4912-4924Crossref PubMed Scopus (35) Google Scholar, 15Kutil Z. Skultetyova L. Rauh D. Meleshin M. Snajdr I. Novakova Z. et al.The unraveling of substrate specificity of histone deacetylase 6 domains using acetylome peptide microarrays and peptide libraries.FASEB J. 2019; 33: 4035-4045Crossref PubMed Scopus (27) Google Scholar). As with substrate preferences, binding of 1 and hydroxamate-based HDAC6is to the CD1 active site could be disfavored by suboptimal interactions with this key residue.Table 1Inhibitory profile of 1, 2, and 3 on HDACsHDAC classInhibitorsRIC50 (μM)Class IHDAC1>100>10014.7 ± 0.4HDAC2>100>10043.6 ± 1.8HDAC3>10046.8 ± 5.02.01 ± 0.09HDAC8>100>10010.2 ± 0.3Class IIbHDAC60.0077 ± 0.00031.58 ± 0.050.329 ± 0.006zHDAC6-CD20.0078 ± 0.00042.25 ± 0.040.097 ± 0.004zHDAC6-CD182.2 ± 7.7>10013.9 ± 0.6HDAC10>100>10013.30 ± 0.06Class IIaHDAC4>100>100>100HDAC5>100>10098.5 ± 7.2HDAC7>100>10064.2 ± 2.4HDAC9>100>10046.4 ± 0.9Class IVHDAC11>100>100>100 Open table in a new tab In the presence of 1, we noticed that inhibition increases during the time course of the assay, suggesting slow binding inhibition (Fig. S3A). Slow binding inhibition may result from various mechanisms (16Copeland R.A. Evaluation of enzyme inhibitors in drug discovery.Wiley. 2013; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118540398Crossref Scopus (332) Google Scholar). The most common ones may be discerned by determining the dependence of the observed pseudo–first-order rate constant kobs of formation of the enzyme–inhibitor complex on the inhibitor concentration. We ruled out that the inhibitor itself underwent hydration–dehydration equilibria in aqueous solution with only one species binding to the enzyme (17Narjes F. Brunetti M. Colarusso S. Gerlach B. Koch U. Biasiol G. et al.α-Ketoacids are potent slow binding inhibitors of the hepatitis C virus NS3 protease.Biochemistry. 2000; 39: 1849-1861Crossref PubMed Scopus (75) Google Scholar), as we were unable to detect a hydrated form of 1 in solution. Thus, the observed linear dependence of kobs on inhibitor concentration is consistent with the binding process itself being slow, with an apparent association rate constant of 9.6 × 105 M−1 min−1 (Fig. and and Table The magnitude of the apparent rate constant was from the kobs and (Table 2 and and ± min−1 ± The time of the inhibitor was to of the inhibition of HDAC6 by ± ± in M−1 min−1 from kobs ± ± in min−1 from kobs ± ± in min−1 from ± from ± ± in of ± M−1 min−1 from kobs ± min−1 from kobs ± min−1 from ± from ± of ± M−1 min−1 from kobs from min−1 from ± of in from kobs from from Open table in a new tab The slow-binding was by 1 with both human full-length HDAC6 and zHDAC6-CD2 (Fig. the and are for both (Tables 2 and that zHDAC6-CD2 is a of human CD2 (12Miyake Y. Keusch J.J. Wang L. Saito M. Hess D. Wang X. et al.Structural insights into HDAC6 tubulin deacetylation and its selective inhibition.Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016; 12: 748-754Crossref PubMed Scopus (210) Google Scholar, 13Hai Y. 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