2010年2月
Identification of Dynamin-2-Mediated Endocytosis as a New Target of Osteoporosis Drugs, Bisphosphonates
MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY
- 巻
- 77
- 号
- 2
- 開始ページ
- 262
- 終了ページ
- 269
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1124/mol.109.059006
- 出版者・発行元
- AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
Nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates are pyrophosphate analogs that have long been the preferred prescription for treating osteoporosis. Although these drugs are considered inhibitors of prenylation and are believed to exert their effects on bone resorption by disrupting the signaling pathways downstream of prenylated small GTPases, this explanation seems to be insufficient. Because other classes of prenylation inhibitors have recently emerged as potential antiviral therapeutic agents, we first investigated here the effects of bisphosphonates on simian virus 40 and adenovirus infections and, to our surprise, found that viral infections are suppressed by bisphosphonates through a prenylation-independent pathway. By in-house affinity-capture techniques, dynamin-2 was identified as a new molecular target of bisphosphonates. We present evidence that certain bisphosphonates block endocytosis of adenovirus and a model substrate by inhibiting GTPase activity of dynamin-2. Hence, this study has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism of action of bisphosphonates and offers potential novel use for these drugs.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1124/mol.109.059006
- ISSN : 0026-895X
- eISSN : 1521-0111
- PubMed ID : 19903825
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000273725600017