Title : The garlic compound ajoene covalently binds vimentin, disrupts the vimentin network and exerts anti-metastatic activity in cancer cells.

Pub. Date : 2019 Mar 20

PMID : 30894168






4 Functional Relationships(s)
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1 The vimentin target was validated to reveal that ajoene and dansyl-ajoene covalently bind to recombinant vimentin via a disulfide linkage at Cys-328. Cysteine vimentin Homo sapiens
2 The vimentin target was validated to reveal that ajoene and dansyl-ajoene covalently bind to recombinant vimentin via a disulfide linkage at Cys-328. Cysteine vimentin Homo sapiens
3 Computational modelling showed Cys-328 to be exposed at the termini of the vimentin tetramer. Cysteine vimentin Homo sapiens
4 CONCLUSIONS: The garlic-derived phytochemical ajoene targets and covalently modifies vimentin in cancer cells by S-thiolating Cys-328. Cysteine vimentin Homo sapiens