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Öney Öİ, Yenilmez HY, Bahar D, Öztürk NF, Altuntaş Bayır Z. Design of N-heterocycle based-phthalonitrile/metal phthalocyanine-silver nanoconjugates for cancer therapies. Dalton Trans 2023; 52:13119-13128. [PMID: 37602369 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt01656k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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This study reports the anticancer properties of carbazole-containing phthalonitrile/phthalocyanine-modified silver nanoparticles for the first time. In this study, a new mono-substituted phthalonitrile namely 3-[9H-carbazole-9-ethoxy]phthalonitrile and its metal phthalocyanines {M = Zn, Co, and Mn(Cl)} were synthesized by template cyclotetramerization of phthalonitrile derivatives. The newly synthesized compounds were characterized using UV-vis, FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and mass spectroscopy. The resultant compounds were successfully linked to the surface of silver nanoparticles. The characterization of the surficial modification was carried out by applying the TEM technique. The cytotoxic activities of the studied nanoconjugates were tested against A549, DLD-1, and Wi38 cell lines by performing a (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) (MTT) assay with/without irradiation. Although the functionalization of silver nanoparticles increased the solubility of phthalocyanines in aqueous media, the presence of phthalonitrile/phthalocyanine derivatives on the silver nanoparticles' surface improved their biological properties. All the studied biological candidates exhibited antiproliferative activities against the cell lines. The IC50 values calculated were between 6.80 and 97.99 μM against the studied cell lines in the dark. However, the IC50 values determined were between 3.11 and 88.90 μM with irradiation. The highest IC50 values obtained were 3.11 and 3.52 μM against the DLD-1 cell line for nanoconjugates 1-AgNP and 3-AgNP, respectively. The findings indicated that the compounds may be utilized as anticancer agents after further studies.
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- Özlem İpsiz Öney
- Department of Chemistry, Istanbul Technical University, TR-34469, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Department of Chemistry, Istanbul Technical University, TR-34469, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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- Genome & Stem Cell Center (GENKOK), Erciyes University, TR-38280, Kayseri, Türkiye
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- Department of Chemistry, Istanbul Technical University, TR-34469, Istanbul, Türkiye.
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Tian LX, Li XY, Tang X, Zhou XY, Luo L, Ma XY, Tang WQ, Yu J, Ma W, Yang X, Yan J, Xu X, Liang HP. Ellipticine Conveys Protective Effects to Lipopolysaccharide-Activated Macrophages by Targeting the JNK/AP-1 Signaling Pathway. Inflammation 2019; 43:231-240. [DOI: 10.1007/s10753-019-01112-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Procházková E, Cao C, Rawal A, Dračínský M, Bhattacharyya S, Císařová I, Hook JM, Stenzel MH. Polymorphic Transformation of Drugs Induced by Glycopolymeric Vesicles Designed for Anticancer Therapy Probed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:28278-28288. [PMID: 31290309 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b05514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Understanding the nature of the drug-polymer interactions in micellar drug delivery systems and what happens with the drug and the polymer once the complex has formed is essential for the rational design of the polymeric matrices suitable for a particular drug. In this work, glycopolymeric vesicles-a block copolymer, poly(1-O-methacryloyl-β-d-fructopyranose)-b-poly(methyl methacrylate), (PFru36-PMMA160),-designed to target tumor cells loaded with two drugs, ellipticine and curcumin, were characterized. Advanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal/powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) combined with CASTEP calculations shed light on the nature of the drug, the polymer, and their interactions. While the low drug loading (ca. 5%) ensured that the structure, size, and shape of the polymeric vesicles did not change significantly, the solid-state forms of the drugs changed markedly. Upon loading into the vesicles, ellipticine favored a highly ordered form distinctly different from the bulk drug as indicated by 13C solid-state NMR spectroscopy. A detailed analysis of the CASTEP-calculated 13C spectra derived from crystallographic data based on the lowest mean absolute error showed the best match with form I. Moreover, ellipticine before loading was found as a new polymorph and was described by single-crystal XRD as a new orthorhombic Form III. Likewise, curcumin, originally present in monoclinic Form I was found to recrystallize as metastable orthorhombic Form II inside the vesicles. Intermolecular interactions between the polymeric vesicles and the drugs, ellipticine as well as curcumin, were detected using 2D 1H magic angle spinning experiments, indicating that the drugs are localized in the hydrophobic layer of the vesicles.
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- Eliška Procházková
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry , Czech Academy of Sciences , Prague 166 10 , Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry , Czech Academy of Sciences , Prague 166 10 , Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science , Charles University , Prague 128 43 , Czech Republic
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Ellipticine-loaded apoferritin nanocarrier retains DNA adduct-based cytochrome P450-facilitated toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Toxicology 2019; 419:40-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2019.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Reed L, Indra R, Mrizova I, Moserova M, Schmeiser HH, Wolf CR, Henderson CJ, Stiborova M, Phillips DH, Arlt VM. Application of hepatic cytochrome b 5/P450 reductase null (HBRN) mice to study the role of cytochrome b 5 in the cytochrome P450-mediated bioactivation of the anticancer drug ellipticine. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2019; 366:64-74. [PMID: 30685480 PMCID: PMC6382462 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2019.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2018] [Revised: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The anticancer drug ellipticine exerts its genotoxic effects after metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes. The present study has examined the role of cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (POR) and cytochrome b5 (Cyb5), electron donors to P450 enzymes, in the CYP-mediated metabolism and disposition of ellipticine in vivo. We used Hepatic Reductase Null (HRN) and Hepatic Cytochrome b5/P450 Reductase Null (HBRN) mice. HRN mice have POR deleted specifically in hepatocytes; HBRN mice also have Cyb5 deleted in the liver. Mice were treated once with 10 mg/kg body weight ellipticine (n = 4/group) for 24 h. Ellipticine-DNA adduct levels measured by 32P-postlabelling were significantly lower in HRN and HBRN livers than in wild-type (WT) livers; however no significant difference was observed between HRN and HBRN livers. Ellipticine-DNA adduct formation in WT, HRN and HBRN livers correlated with Cyp1a and Cyp3a enzyme activities measured in hepatic microsomes in the presence of NADPH confirming the importance of P450 enzymes in the bioactivation of ellipticine in vivo. Hepatic microsomal fractions were also utilised in incubations with ellipticine and DNA in the presence of NADPH, cofactor for POR, and NADH, cofactor for Cyb5 reductase (Cyb5R), to examine ellipticine-DNA adduct formation. With NADPH adduct formation decreased as electron donors were lost which correlated with the formation of the reactive metabolites 12- and 13-hydroxy-ellipticine in hepatic microsomes. No difference in adduct formation was observed in the presence of NADH. Our study demonstrates that Cyb5 contributes to the P450-mediated bioactivation of ellipticine in vitro, but not in vivo.
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- Lindsay Reed
- Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Research, Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Division of Cancer Research, Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Stiborova M. Formation of Covalent DNA Adducts by Enzymatically Activated Carcinogens and Drugs In Vitro and Their Determination by 32P-postlabeling. J Vis Exp 2018. [PMID: 29630053 DOI: 10.3791/57177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Covalent DNA adducts formed by chemicals or drugs with carcinogenic potency are judged as one of the most important factors in the initiation phase of carcinogenic processes. This covalent binding, which is considered the cause of tumorigenesis, is now evaluated as a central dogma of chemical carcinogenesis. Here, methods are described employing the reactions catalyzed by cytochrome P450 and additional biotransformation enzymes to investigate the potency of chemicals or drugs for their activation to metabolites forming these DNA adducts. Procedures are presented describing the isolation of cellular fractions possessing biotransformation enzymes (microsomal and cytosolic samples with cytochromes P450 or other biotransformation enzymes, i.e., peroxidases, NADPH:cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase, NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase, or xanthine oxidase). Furthermore, methods are described that can be used for the metabolic activation of analyzed chemicals by these enzymes as well as those for isolation of DNA. Further, the appropriate methods capable of detecting and quantifying chemical/drug-derived DNA adducts, i.e., different modifications of the 32P-postlabeling technique and employment of radioactive-labeled analyzed chemicals, are shown in detail.
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The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Valproic Acid Exerts a Synergistic Cytotoxicity with the DNA-Damaging Drug Ellipticine in Neuroblastoma Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19010164. [PMID: 29304031 PMCID: PMC5796113 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19010164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2017] [Revised: 12/22/2017] [Accepted: 12/28/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Neuroblastoma (NBL) originates from undifferentiated cells of the sympathetic nervous system. Chemotherapy is judged to be suitable for successful treatment of this disease. Here, the influence of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor valproate (VPA) combined with DNA-damaging chemotherapeutic, ellipticine, on UKF-NB-4 and SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells was investigated. Treatment of these cells with ellipticine in combination with VPA led to the synergism of their anticancer efficacy. The effect is more pronounced in the UKF-NB-4 cell line, the line with N-myc amplification, than in SH-SY5Y cells. This was associated with caspase-3-dependent induction of apoptosis in UKF-NB-4 cells. The increase in cytotoxicity of ellipticine in UKF-NB-4 by VPA is dictated by the sequence of drug administration; the increased cytotoxicity was seen only after either simultaneous exposure to these drugs or after pretreatment of cells with ellipticine before their treatment with VPA. The synergism of treatment of cells with VPA and ellipticine seems to be connected with increased acetylation of histones H3 and H4. Further, co-treatment of cells with ellipticine and VPA increased the formation of ellipticine-derived DNA adducts, which indicates an easier accessibility of ellipticine to DNA in cells by its co-treatment with VPA and also resulted in higher ellipticine cytotoxicity. The results are promising for in vivo studies and perhaps later for clinical studies of combined treatment of children suffering from high-risk NBL.
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Morgan AGM, Babu D, Michail K, Siraki AG. An evaluation of myeloperoxidase-mediated bio-activation of NSAIDs in promyelocytic leukemia (HL-60) cells for potential cytotoxic selectivity. Toxicol Lett 2017; 280:48-56. [PMID: 28754375 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2017.07.894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Revised: 06/24/2017] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Several lines of evidence have pointed towards the potential therapeutic benefit of NSAIDs in cancer therapy. In this study, we have investigated the acute bio-activation of NSAIDs and their metabolites via myeloperoxidase (MPO), a highly-expressed peroxidase enzyme in acute myeloid leukemia. As bio-activation involves the formation of reactive metabolites, we hypothesized that NSAIDs which produced reactive metabolites would be correlated with leukemia cell toxicity. We tested the enzymatic peroxidation of three NSAIDs, namely diclofenac, indomethacin, and naproxen in comparison with their hepatic metabolites, 4'- hydroxydiclofenac (4'-OHD), 5-hydroxydiclofenac (5-OHD), O-desmethyl-N-deschlorobenzoylindomethacin (DMBI), O-desmethylindomethacin (DMI) and O-desmethylnaproxen (ODN). Firstly, we used purified peroxidases in kinetic UV-vis kinetic spectrophotometry, and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments to determine oxidation of ascorbic acid and glutathione (GSH), respectively. We then used HL-60 cells, as a model of acute myelogenous leukemia to carry out trypan blue exclusion, cellular ATP analysis, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and cytofluorometric GSH assays. Our results present evidence that diclofenac, 4'-OHD, 5-OHD, DMBI and DMI demonstrated significant cytotoxic effect in the leukemic cells through oxidation by intracellular MPO. In the same vein, only diclofenac and its two metabolites caused a significant drop in the MMP and cellular ATP level; however, the cell death induced by indomethacin metabolites reflected a subtle effect on MMP or GSH content. Interestingly, only diclofenac and 4'-OHD (and not 5- OHD) caused a significant drop in HL-60 cells' GSH content. Among diclofenac compounds, only 4'-OHD also generated GS radical and caused a significant increase in ascorbate co-oxidation rate. Lastly, even though ODN also generated GS radical and potently cooxidized ascorbate, it showed no significant cytotoxicity. These results provide evidence of a correlation between acute cytotoxicity and MPO-bioactivated NSAIDs, though this was not correlated for all compounds (e.g., ODN). Further studies are required to determine both the MPO-dependent and MPO-independent mechanisms of cytotoxicity.
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- Andrew G M Morgan
- Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
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Stiborová M, Indra R, Frei E, Kopečková K, Schmeiser HH, Eckschlager T, Adam V, Heger Z, Arlt VM, Martínek V. Cytochrome b5 plays a dual role in the reaction cycle of cytochrome P450 3A4 during oxidation of the anticancer drug ellipticine. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2017; 148:1983-1991. [PMID: 29104319 PMCID: PMC5653753 DOI: 10.1007/s00706-017-1986-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Abstract Ellipticine is an anticancer agent that forms covalent DNA adducts after enzymatic activation by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, mainly by CYP3A4. This process is one of the most important ellipticine DNA-damaging mechanisms for its antitumor action. Here, we investigated the efficiencies of human hepatic microsomes and human recombinant CYP3A4 expressed with its reductase, NADPH:CYP oxidoreductase (POR), NADH:cytochrome b5 reductase and/or cytochrome b5 in Supersomes™ to oxidize this drug. We also evaluated the effectiveness of coenzymes of two of the microsomal reductases, NADPH as a coenzyme of POR, and NADH as a coenzyme of NADH:cytochrome b5 reductase, to mediate ellipticine oxidation in these enzyme systems. Using HPLC analysis we detected up to five ellipticine metabolites, which were formed by human hepatic microsomes and human CYP3A4 in the presence of NADPH or NADH. Among ellipticine metabolites, 9-hydroxy-, 12-hydroxy-, and 13-hydroxyellipticine were formed by hepatic microsomes as the major metabolites, while 7-hydroxyellipticine and the ellipticine N2-oxide were the minor ones. Human CYP3A4 in Supersomes™ generated only three metabolic products, 9-hydroxy-, 12-hydroxy-, and 13-hydroxyellipticine. Using the 32P-postlabeling method two ellipticine-derived DNA adducts were generated by microsomes and the CYP3A4-Supersome system, both in the presence of NADPH and NADH. These adducts were derived from the reaction of 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine with deoxyguanosine in DNA. In the presence of NADPH or NADH, cytochrome b5 stimulated the CYP3A4-mediated oxidation of ellipticine, but the stimulation effect differed for individual ellipticine metabolites. This heme protein also stimulated the formation of both ellipticine-DNA adducts. The results demonstrate that cytochrome b5 plays a dual role in the CYP3A4-catalyzed oxidation of ellipticine: (1) cytochrome b5 mediates CYP3A4 catalytic activities by donating the first and second electron to this enzyme in its catalytic cycle, indicating that NADH:cytochrome b5 reductase can substitute NADPH-dependent POR in this enzymatic reaction and (2) cytochrome b5 can act as an allosteric modifier of the CYP3A4 oxygenase. Graphical abstract ![]()
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, V Uvalu 84, 150 06 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, V Uvalu 84, 150 06 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Metallomics and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Metallomics and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Analytical and Environmental Sciences Division, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, SE1 9NH UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Gan J, Ma S, Zhang D. Non-cytochrome P450-mediated bioactivation and its toxicological relevance. Drug Metab Rev 2016; 48:473-501. [DOI: 10.1080/03602532.2016.1225756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Stiborová M, Moserová M, Mrízová I, Dračínská H, Martínek V, Indra R, Frei E, Adam V, Kizek R, Schmeiser HH, Kubáčková K, Arlt VM. Induced expression of microsomal cytochrome b5 determined at mRNA and protein levels in rats exposed to ellipticine, benzo[ a]pyrene, and 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol (Sudan I). MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2016; 147:897-904. [PMID: 27110040 PMCID: PMC4828491 DOI: 10.1007/s00706-015-1636-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2015] [Accepted: 12/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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ABSTRACT The microsomal protein cytochrome b5 , which is located in the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum, has been shown to modulate many reactions catalyzed by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes. We investigated the influence of exposure to the anticancer drug ellipticine and to two environmental carcinogens, benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol (Sudan I), on the expression of cytochrome b5 in livers of rats, both at the mRNA and protein levels. We also studied the effects of these compounds on their own metabolism and the formation of DNA adducts generated by their activation metabolite(s) in vitro. The relative amounts of cytochrome b5 mRNA, measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis, were induced by the test compounds up to 11.7-fold in rat livers. Western blotting using antibodies raised against cytochrome b5 showed that protein expression was induced by up to sevenfold in livers of treated rats. Microsomes isolated from livers of exposed rats catalyzed the oxidation of ellipticine, BaP, and Sudan I and the formation of DNA adducts generated by their reactive metabolite(s) more effectively than hepatic microsomes isolated from control rats. All test compounds are known to induce CYP1A1. This induction is one of the reasons responsible for increased oxidation of these xenobiotics by microsomes. However, induction of cytochrome b5 can also contribute to their enhanced metabolism. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Oncology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, V Uvalu 84, 150 06 Prague 5, Czech Republic
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- Analytical and Environmental Sciences Division, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King's College London, London, SE1 9NH UK
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Klopčič I, Poberžnik M, Mavri J, Dolenc MS. A quantum chemical study of the reactivity of acetaminophen (paracetamol) toxic metabolite N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine with deoxyguanosine and glutathione. Chem Biol Interact 2015; 242:407-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2015.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Revised: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Computational study on the ion interaction of ellipticine: A theoretical approach toward selecting the appropriate anion. Chem Phys Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2015.05.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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HRABETA JAN, GROH TOMAS, KHALIL MOHAMEDASHRAF, POLJAKOVA JITKA, ADAM VOJTECH, KIZEK RENE, UHLIK JIRI, DOKTOROVA HELENA, CERNA TEREZA, FREI EVA, STIBOROVA MARIE, ECKSCHLAGER TOMAS. Vacuolar-ATPase-mediated intracellular sequestration of ellipticine contributes to drug resistance in neuroblastoma cells. Int J Oncol 2015; 47:971-80. [DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2015.3066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Stiborová M, Černá V, Moserová M, Mrízová I, Arlt VM, Frei E. The anticancer drug ellipticine activated with cytochrome P450 mediates DNA damage determining its pharmacological efficiencies: studies with rats, Hepatic Cytochrome P450 Reductase Null (HRN™) mice and pure enzymes. Int J Mol Sci 2014; 16:284-306. [PMID: 25547492 PMCID: PMC4307247 DOI: 10.3390/ijms16010284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Ellipticine is a DNA-damaging agent acting as a prodrug whose pharmacological efficiencies and genotoxic side effects are dictated by activation with cytochrome P450 (CYP). Over the last decade we have gained extensive experience in using pure enzymes and various animal models that helped to identify CYPs metabolizing ellipticine. In this review we focus on comparison between the in vitro and in vivo studies and show a necessity of both approaches to obtain valid information on CYP enzymes contributing to ellipticine metabolism. Discrepancies were found between the CYP enzymes activating ellipticine to 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine generating covalent DNA adducts and those detoxifying this drug to 9-hydroxy- and 7-hydroellipticine in vitro and in vivo. In vivo, formation of ellipticine-DNA adducts is dependent not only on expression levels of CYP3A, catalyzing ellipticine activation in vitro, but also on those of CYP1A that oxidize ellipticine in vitro mainly to the detoxification products. The finding showing that cytochrome b5 alters the ratio of ellipticine metabolites generated by CYP1A1/2 and 3A4 explained this paradox. Whereas the detoxification of ellipticine by CYP1A and 3A is either decreased or not changed by cytochrome b5, activation leading to ellipticine-DNA adducts increased considerably. We show that (I) the pharmacological effects of ellipticine mediated by covalent ellipticine-derived DNA adducts are dictated by expression levels of CYP1A, 3A and cytochrome b5, and its own potency to induce these enzymes in tumor tissues, (II) animal models, where levels of CYPs are either knocked out or induced are appropriate to identify CYPs metabolizing ellipticine in vivo, and (III) extrapolation from in vitro data to the situation in vivo is not always possible, confirming the need for these animal models.
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, CZ-12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, CZ-12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, CZ-12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, CZ-12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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- Analytical and Environmental Sciences Division, MRC-PHE Centre for Environmental & Health, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK.
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- Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Formation of DNA adducts by ellipticine and its micellar form in rats - a comparative study. SENSORS 2014; 14:22982-97. [PMID: 25479328 PMCID: PMC4299049 DOI: 10.3390/s141222982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 11/27/2014] [Accepted: 11/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The requirements for early diagnostics as well as effective treatment of cancer diseases have increased the pressure on development of efficient methods for targeted drug delivery as well as imaging of the treatment success. One of the most recent approaches covering the drug delivery aspects is benefitting from the unique properties of nanomaterials. Ellipticine and its derivatives are efficient anticancer compounds that function through multiple mechanisms. Formation of covalent DNA adducts after ellipticine enzymatic activation is one of the most important mechanisms of its pharmacological action. In this study, we investigated whether ellipticine might be released from its micellar (encapsulated) form to generate covalent adducts analogous to those formed by free ellipticine. The 32P-postlabeling technique was used as a useful imaging method to detect and quantify covalent ellipticine-derived DNA adducts. We compared the efficiencies of free ellipticine and its micellar form (the poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(allyl glycidyl ether) (PAGE-PEO) block copolymer, P 119 nanoparticles) to form ellipticine-DNA adducts in rats in vivo. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that treatment of rats with ellipticine in micelles resulted in formation of ellipticine-derived DNA adducts in vivo and suggest that a gradual release of ellipticine from its micellar form might produce the enhanced permeation and retention effect of this ellipticine-micellar delivery system.
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O'Sullivan EC, Miller CM, Deane FM, McCarthy FO. Emerging Targets in the Bioactivity of Ellipticines and Derivatives. STUDIES IN NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-62615-8.00006-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Ellipticine oxidation and DNA adduct formation in human hepatocytes is catalyzed by human cytochromes P450 and enhanced by cytochrome b5. Toxicology 2012; 302:233-41. [PMID: 22917556 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2012.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2012] [Revised: 08/05/2012] [Accepted: 08/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ellipticine is an antineoplastic agent considered a pro-drug, the pharmacological and genotoxic effects of which are dependent on cytochrome P450 (CYP)- and/or peroxidase-mediated activation to covalent DNA adducts. We investigated whether ellipticine-DNA adducts are formed in human hepatic microsomes and human hepatocytes. We then identified which human CYPs oxidize ellipticine to metabolites forming DNA adducts and the effect of cytochrome b(5) on this oxidation. 13-Hydroxyellipticine, the metabolite forming the major ellipticine-DNA adduct, was generated mainly by CYP3A4 and 1A1, followed by CYP2D6>2C19>1B1>1A2>2E1 and >2C9. Cytochrome b(5) increased formation of this metabolite by human CYPs, predominantly by CYP1A1, 3A4, 1A2 and 2C19. Formation of 12-hydroxyellipticine is generated mainly by CYP2C19, followed by CYP2C9>3A4>2D6>2E1 and >2A6. Other CYPs were less active (CYP2C8 and 2B6) or did not oxidize ellipticine to this metabolite (CYP1A1, 1A2 and 1B1). CYP2D6 was the most efficient enzyme generating ellipticine N(2)-oxide. CYP3A4 and 1A1 in the presence of cytochrome b(5) are mainly responsible for bioactivation of ellipticine to DNA adduct 1 (formed by ellipticine-13-ylium from 13-hydroxyellipticine), while 12-hydroxyellipticine generated during the CYP2C19-mediated ellipticine oxidation is the predominant metabolite forming ellipticine-12-ylium that generates ellipticine-DNA adduct 2. These ellipticine-DNA adducts were also generated by human hepatic microsomes and in primary human hepatocytes exposed to ellipticine. Ellipticine is toxic to these hepatocytes, decreasing their viability; the IC(50) value of ellipticine in these cells was 0.7 μM. In liver CYP3A4 is the predominant ellipticine activating CYP species, which is expected to result in efficient metabolism after oral ingestion of ellipticine in humans.
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Ryvolova M, Adam V, Eckschlager T, Stiborova M, Kizek R. Study of DNA-ellipticine interaction by capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection. Electrophoresis 2012; 33:1545-9. [DOI: 10.1002/elps.201200056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology; 2; nd; Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol; Prague; Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry; Faculty of Science; Charles University; Prague; Czech Republic
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Stiborová M, Indra R, Moserová M, Černá V, Rupertová M, Martínek V, Eckschlager T, Kizek R, Frei E. Cytochrome b5 Increases Cytochrome P450 3A4-Mediated Activation of Anticancer Drug Ellipticine to 13-Hydroxyellipticine Whose Covalent Binding to DNA Is Elevated by Sulfotransferases and N,O-Acetyltransferases. Chem Res Toxicol 2012; 25:1075-85. [DOI: 10.1021/tx3000335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Science, Charles University,
Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology
and Oncology, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University,
Brno, Czech Republic
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- Division
of Preventive Oncology,
National Center for Tumor Diseases, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Miller CM, McCarthy FO. Isolation, biological activity and synthesis of the natural product ellipticine and related pyridocarbazoles. RSC Adv 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra20584j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Kizek R, Adam V, Hrabeta J, Eckschlager T, Smutny S, Burda JV, Frei E, Stiborova M. Anthracyclines and ellipticines as DNA-damaging anticancer drugs: Recent advances. Pharmacol Ther 2012; 133:26-39. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2011.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2011] [Accepted: 07/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Cytochrome b5 shifts oxidation of the anticancer drug ellipticine by cytochromes P450 1A1 and 1A2 from its detoxication to activation, thereby modulating its pharmacological efficacy. Biochem Pharmacol 2011; 82:669-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2011] [Revised: 06/03/2011] [Accepted: 06/03/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Ellipticine cytotoxicity to cancer cell lines - a comparative study. Interdiscip Toxicol 2011; 4:98-105. [PMID: 21753906 PMCID: PMC3131681 DOI: 10.2478/v10102-011-0017-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2010] [Revised: 04/20/2011] [Accepted: 04/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Ellipticine is a potent antineoplastic agent exhibiting multiple mechanisms of action. This anticancer agent should be considered a pro-drug, whose pharmacological efficiency and/or genotoxic side effects are dependent on its cytochrome P450 (CYP)- and/or peroxidase-mediated activation to species forming covalent DNA adducts. Ellipticine can also act as an inhibitor or inducer of biotransformation enzymes, thereby modulating its own metabolism leading to its genotoxic and pharmacological effects. Here, a comparison of the toxicity of ellipticine to human breast adenocarcinoma MCF-7 cells, leukemia HL-60 and CCRF-CEM cells, neuroblastoma IMR-32, UKF-NB-3 and UKF-NB-4 cells and U87MG glioblastoma cells and mechanisms of its action to these cells were evaluated. Treatment of all cells tested with ellipticine resulted in inhibition of cell growth and proliferation. This effect was associated with formation of two covalent ellipticine-derived DNA adducts, identical to those formed by 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine, the ellipticine metabolites generated by CYP and peroxidase enzymes, in MCF-7, HL-60, CCRF-CEM, UKF-NB-3, UKF-NB-4 and U87MG cells, but not in neuroblastoma UKF-NB-3 cells. Therefore, DNA adduct formation in most cancer cell lines tested in this comparative study might be the predominant cause of their sensitivity to ellipticine treatment, whereas other mechanisms of ellipticine action also contribute to its cytotoxicity to neuroblastoma UKF-NB-3 cells.
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DNA and histone deacetylases as targets for neuroblastoma treatment. Interdiscip Toxicol 2011; 3:47-52. [PMID: 21217872 PMCID: PMC2984128 DOI: 10.2478/v10102-010-0010-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2010] [Revised: 06/14/2010] [Accepted: 06/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Neuroblastoma, a tumor of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system, is the most frequent solid extra cranial tumor in children and is a major cause of death from neoplasia in infancy. Still little improvement in therapeutic options has been made, requiring a need for the development of new therapies. In our laboratory, we address still unsettled questions, which of mechanisms of action of DNA-damaging drugs both currently use for treatment of human neuroblastomas (doxorubicin, cis-platin, cyclophosphamide and etoposide) and another anticancer agent decreasing growth of neuroblastomas in vitro, ellipticine, are predominant mechanism(s) responsible for their antitumor action in neuroblastoma cell lines in vitro. Because hypoxia frequently occurs in tumors and strongly correlates with advanced disease and poor outcome caused by chemoresistance, the effects of hypoxia on efficiencies and mechanisms of actions of these drugs in neuroblastomas are also investigated. Since the epigenetic structure of DNA and its lesions play a role in the origin of human neuroblastomas, pharmaceutical manipulation of the epigenome may offer other treatment options also for neuroblastomas. Therefore, the effects of histone deacetylase inhibitors on growth of neuroblastoma and combination of these compounds with doxorubicin, cis-platin, etoposide and ellipticine as well as mechanisms of such effects in human neuroblastona cell lines in vitro are also investigated. Such a study will increase our knowledge to explain the proper function of these drugs on the molecular level, which should be utilized for the development of new therapies for neuroblastomas.
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Kosina P, Vacek J, Papoušková B, Stiborová M, Stýskala J, Cankař P, Vrublová E, Vostálová J, Šimánek V, Ulrichová J. Identification of benzo[c]phenanthridine metabolites in human hepatocytes by liquid chromatography with electrospray ion-trap and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2011; 879:1077-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2011.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Revised: 03/04/2011] [Accepted: 03/10/2011] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Stiborová M, Rupertová M, Frei E. Cytochrome P450- and peroxidase-mediated oxidation of anticancer alkaloid ellipticine dictates its anti-tumor efficiency. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2011; 1814:175-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2010] [Revised: 05/22/2010] [Accepted: 05/24/2010] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Martínek V, Sklenář J, Dračínský M, Šulc M, Hofbauerová K, Bezouška K, Frei E, Stiborová M. Glycosylation Protects Proteins against Free Radicals Generated from Toxic Xenobiotics. Toxicol Sci 2010; 117:359-74. [DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfq206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Gaddam V, Ramesh S, Nagarajan R. CuI/La(OTf)3 catalyzed, one-pot synthesis of isomeric ellipticine derivatives in ionic liquid. Tetrahedron 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2010.03.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Martinkova E, Maglott A, Leger DY, Bonnet D, Stiborova M, Takeda K, Martin S, Dontenwill M. α5β1 integrin antagonists reduce chemotherapy-induced premature senescence and facilitate apoptosis in human glioblastoma cells. Int J Cancer 2010; 127:1240-8. [PMID: 20099278 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Eva Martinkova
- Laboratoire de Biophotonique et Pharmacologie, UMR 7213 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, 67401 Illkirch, France
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Willemann C, Grünert R, Bednarski PJ, Troschütz R. Synthesis and cytotoxic activity of 5,6-heteroaromatically annulated pyridine-2,4-diamines. Bioorg Med Chem 2009; 17:4406-19. [PMID: 19481463 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2009.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2009] [Accepted: 05/07/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A series of 5,6-heteroaromatically annulated pyridine-2,4-diamines have been synthesized and their in vitro cytotoxic activities evaluated against six human cancer cell lines. Benzo[g] annulated pyrido[2,3-b]indolediamines 7a-b and 8 showed relatively high cytotoxic activity as well as most of the diamines with pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine 17, thieno[2,3-b]pyridine and furo[2,3-b]pyridine 26-28, 1,8-naphthyridine 32 and 34 and benzo[h]quinoline 37 skeletons. Surprisingly, pyrido[2,3-b]indolediamines 13 and 14 without benzo[g] annulation were inactive. None of the new compounds were as potent as ellipticine, the reference compound.
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- C Willemann
- Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Erlangen, Germany
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Stiborová M, Dracínská H, Martínková M, Mizerovská J, Hudecek J, Hodek P, Liberda J, Frei E, Schmeiser HH, Phillips DH, Arlt VM. 3-aminobenzanthrone, a human metabolite of the carcinogenic environmental pollutant 3-nitrobenzanthrone, induces biotransformation enzymes in rat kidney and lung. Mutat Res 2009; 676:93-101. [PMID: 19398038 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2009.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2008] [Revised: 02/05/2009] [Accepted: 04/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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3-aminobenzanthrone (3-ABA) is the metabolite of the carcinogenic air pollutant 3-nitrobenzanthrone (3-NBA). 3-ABA was investigated for its ability to induce cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) and NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1) in kidney and lung of rats, and for the influence of such induction on DNA adduct formation by 3-ABA and 3-NBA. NQO1 is the enzyme that reduces 3-NBA to N-hydroxy-3-aminobenzanthrone (N-OH-3-ABA) and CYP1A enzymes oxidize 3-ABA to the same intermediate. When activated by cytosolic and and/or microsomal fractions isolated from rat lung, the target organ for 3-NBA carcinogenicity, and kidney, both compounds generated the same DNA-adduct pattern, consisting of five adducts. When pulmonary cytosols isolated from rats that had been treated i.p. with 40 mg/kg bw of 3-ABA were incubated with 3-NBA, DNA adduct formation was up to 1.7-fold higher than in incubations with cytosols from control animals. This increase corresponded to an increase in protein level and enzymatic activity of NQO1. In contrast, no induction of NQO1 expression by 3-ABA treatment was found in the kidney. Incubations of 3-ABA with renal and pulmonary microsomes of 3-ABA-treated rats led to an increase of up to a 4.5-fold in DNA-adduct formation relative to controls. The stimulation of DNA-adduct formation correlated with a higher protein expression and activity of CYP1A1 induced by 3-ABA. These results show that by inducing lung and kidney CYP1A1 and NQO1, 3-ABA increases its own enzymatic activation as well as that of the environmental pollutant, 3-NBA, thereby enhancing the genotoxic and carcinogenic potential of both compounds.
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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The mechanism of cytotoxicity and DNA adduct formation by the anticancer drug ellipticine in human neuroblastoma cells. Biochem Pharmacol 2009; 77:1466-79. [PMID: 19426684 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2009.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2008] [Revised: 01/26/2009] [Accepted: 01/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ellipticine is an antineoplastic agent, whose mode of action is based mainly on DNA intercalation, inhibition of topoisomerase II and formation of covalent DNA adducts mediated by cytochromes P450 and peroxidases. Here, the molecular mechanism of DNA-mediated ellipticine action in human neuroblastoma IMR-32, UKF-NB-3 and UKF-NB-4 cancer cell lines was investigated. Treatment of neuroblastoma cells with ellipticine resulted in apoptosis induction, which was verified by the appearance of DNA fragmentation, and in inhibition of cell growth. These effects were associated with formation of two covalent ellipticine-derived DNA adducts, identical to those formed by the cytochrome P450- and peroxidase-mediated ellipticine metabolites, 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine. The expression of these enzymes at mRNA and protein levels and their ability to generate ellipticine-DNA adducts in neuroblastoma cells were proven, using the real-time polymerase chain reaction, Western blotting analyses and by analyzing ellipticine-DNA adducts in incubations of this drug with neuroblastoma S9 fractions, enzyme cofactors and DNA. The levels of DNA adducts correlated with toxicity of ellipticine to IMR-32 and UKF-NB-4 cells, but not with that to UKF-NB-3 cells. In addition, hypoxic cell culture conditions resulted in a decrease in ellipticine toxicity to IMR-32 and UKF-NB-4 cells and this correlated with lower levels of DNA adducts. Both these cell lines accumulated in S phase, suggesting that ellipticine-DNA adducts interfere with DNA replication. The results demonstrate that among the multiple modes of ellipticine antitumor action, formation of covalent DNA adducts by ellipticine is the predominant mechanism of cytotoxicity to IMR-32 and UKF-NB-4 neuroblastoma cells.
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Aimová D, Poljaková J, Kotrbová V, Moserová M, Frei E, Arlt VM, Stiborová M. Ellipticine and benzo(a)pyrene increase their own metabolic activation via modulation of expression and enzymatic activity of cytochromes P450 1A1 and 1A2. Interdiscip Toxicol 2008; 1:160-8. [PMID: 21218107 PMCID: PMC2993483 DOI: 10.2478/v10102-010-0033-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 08/07/2008] [Accepted: 08/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Two compounds known to covalently bind to DNA after their activation with cytochromes P450 (CYPs), carcinogenic benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) and an antineoplastic agent ellipticine, were investigated for their potential to induce CYP and NADPH:CYP reductase (POR) enzymes in rodent livers, the main target organ for DNA adduct formation. Two animal models were used in the study: (i) rats as animals mimicking the fate of ellipticine in humans and (ii) mice, especially wild-type (WT) and hepatic POR null (HRN™) mouse lines. Ellipticine and BaP induce expression of CYP1A enzymes in livers of experimental models, which leads to increase in their enzymatic activity. In addition, both compounds are capable of generating DNA adducts, predominantly in livers of studied organisms. As determined by (32)P postlabelling analysis, levels of ellipticine-derived DNA adducts formed in vivo in the livers of HRN™ mice were reduced (by up to 65%) relative to levels in WT mice, indicating that POR mediated CYP enzyme activity is important for the activation of ellipticine. In contrast to these results, 6.4 fold higher DNA binding of BaP was observed in the livers of HRN™ mice than in WT mice. This finding suggests a detoxication role of CYP1A in BaP metabolism in vivo. In in vitro experiments, DNA adduct formation in calf thymus DNA was up to 25 fold higher in incubations of ellipticine or BaP with microsomes from pretreated animals than with controls. This stimulation effect was attributed to induction of CYP1A1/2 enzymes, which are responsible for oxidative activation of both compounds to the metabolites generating major DNA adducts in vitro. Taken together, these results demonstrate that by inducing CYP1A1/2, ellipticine and BaP modulate their own enzymatic metabolic activation and detoxication, thereby modulating their either pharmacological (ellipticine) and/or genotoxic potential (both compounds).
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- Dagmar Aimová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC
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- Division of Molecular Toxicology, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
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- Section of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Institute of Cancer Research, Brookes Lawley Building, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UNITED KINGDOM
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC
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Stiborová M, Dračínská H, Mizerovská J, Frei E, Schmeiser HH, Hudeček J, Hodek P, Phillips DH, Arlt VM. The environmental pollutant and carcinogen 3-nitrobenzanthrone induces cytochrome P450 1A1 and NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase in rat lung and kidney, thereby enhancing its own genotoxicity. Toxicology 2008; 247:11-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2008.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2007] [Revised: 01/23/2008] [Accepted: 01/25/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Stiborová M, Arlt VM, Henderson CJ, Wolf CR, Kotrbová V, Moserová M, Hudeček J, Phillips DH, Frei E. Role of hepatic cytochromes P450 in bioactivation of the anticancer drug ellipticine: Studies with the hepatic NADPH:Cytochrome P450 reductase null mouse. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2008; 226:318-27. [DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2007.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2007] [Revised: 09/14/2007] [Accepted: 09/19/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Dračínský M, Sejbal J, Rygerová B, Stiborová M. An efficient modification of ellipticine synthesis and preparation of 13-hydroxyellipticine. Tetrahedron Lett 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.07.160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Aimová D, Svobodová L, Kotrbová V, Mrázová B, Hodek P, Hudecek J, Václavíková R, Frei E, Stiborová M. The Anticancer Drug Ellipticine Is a Potent Inducer of Rat Cytochromes P450 1A1 and 1A2, Thereby Modulating Its Own Metabolism. Drug Metab Dispos 2007; 35:1926-34. [PMID: 17656468 DOI: 10.1124/dmd.107.016048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Ellipticine is an antineoplastic agent whose mode of action is based mainly on DNA intercalation, inhibition of topoisomerase II, and formation of covalent DNA adducts mediated by cytochromes P450 (P450s) and peroxidases. Here, this drug was found to induce CYP1A1 and/or 1A2 enzymes and their enzymatic activities in livers, lungs, and kidneys of rats treated (i.p.) with ellipticine. The induction is transient. In the absence of repeated administration of ellipticine, the levels and activities of the induced CYP1A decreased almost to the basal level 2 weeks after treatment. The ellipticine-mediated CYP1A induction increases the DNA adduct formation by the compound. When microsomal fractions from livers, kidneys, and lungs of rats treated with ellipticine were incubated with ellipticine, DNA adduct formation, measured by (32)P-postlabeling analysis, was up to 3.8-fold higher in incubations with microsomes from pretreated rats than with controls. The observed stimulation of DNA adduct formation by ellipticine was attributed to induction of CYP1A1 and/or 1A2-mediated increase in ellipticine oxidative activation to 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine, the metabolites generating two major DNA adducts in human and rat livers. In addition to these metabolites, increased formation of the excretion products 9-hydroxy- and 7-hydroxyellipticine was also observed in microsomes of rats treated with ellipticine. Taken together, these results demonstrate for the first time that by inducing CYP1A1/2, ellipticine increases its own metabolism, leading both to an activation of this drug to reactive species-forming DNA adducts and to detoxication metabolites, thereby modulating to some extent its pharmacological and/or genotoxic potential.
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- Dagmar Aimová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Poljaková J, Frei E, Gomez JE, Aimová D, Eckschlager T, Hrabeta J, Stiborová M. DNA adduct formation by the anticancer drug ellipticine in human leukemia HL-60 and CCRF-CEM cells. Cancer Lett 2007; 252:270-9. [PMID: 17306925 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2006.12.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 12/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ellipticine induces formation of two DNA adducts in leukemia HL-60 and CCRF-CEM cells, identical with deoxyguanosine adducts generated by ellipticine metabolites 13-hydroxyellipticine and 12-hydroxyellipticine in vitro and in vivo. The ellipticine cytotoxicity to HL-60 (IC(50)=0.64microM) and CCRF-CEM cells (IC(50)=4.7microM) correlates with levels of DNA adducts. The different expressions of enzymes activating ellipticine in cells explain this finding. While cytochrome P450 1A1 and cyclooxygenase-1 are expressed in both cells, HL-60 cells express also high levels of another activator, myeloperoxidase. The results suggest the adduct formation as a new mode of antitumor action of ellipticine for leukemia.
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- Jitka Poljaková
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Stiborová M, Rupertová M, Aimová D, Ryslavá H, Frei E. Formation and persistence of DNA adducts of anticancer drug ellipticine in rats. Toxicology 2007; 236:50-60. [PMID: 17482743 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2007.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2007] [Revised: 03/23/2007] [Accepted: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Ellipticine is an antineoplastic agent, whose mode of antitumor and/or toxic side effects is based on DNA intercalation, inhibition of topoisomerase II and formation of DNA adducts mediated by cytochromes P450 and peroxidases. We investigated the formation and persistence of DNA adducts generated in rat, the animal model mimicking the bioactivation of ellipticine in human. Using (32)P-postlabeling, ellipticine-DNA adducts were found in liver, kidney, lung, spleen, heart and brain of female and male rats exposed to ellipticine (4, 40 and 80 mg/kg body weight, i.p.). The two major adducts were identical to the deoxyguanosine adducts generated in DNA by 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine in vitro as confirmed by HPLC of the isolated adducts. At four post-treatment times (2 days, 2, 10 and 32 weeks) DNA adducts in rats treated with 80 mg/kg of ellipticine were analyzed in each tissue to study their long-term persistence. In all organs maximal adduct levels were found 2 days after administration. At all time points highest total adduct levels were in liver (402 adducts/10(8) nucleotides after 2 days and 3.6 adducts/10(8) nucleotides after 32 weeks), kidney and lung followed by spleen, heart and brain. Total adduct levels decreased over time to 0.8-8.3% of the initial levels till the latest time point and showed a biphasic profile, a rapid loss during the first 2 weeks was followed by a much slower decline till 32 weeks. These results, the first characterization of persistence of ellipticine-DNA adducts in vivo, are necessary to evaluate genotoxic side effects of ellipticine.
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- Marie Stiborová
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, 12840 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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Stiborová M, Dračínská H, Aimová D, Hodek P, Hudeček J, Ryšlavá H, Schmeiser HH, Frei E. The Anticancer Drug Ellipticine is an Inducer of Rat NAD(P)H:Quinone Oxidoreductase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1135/cccc20071350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The antineoplastic agent ellipticine was investigated for its ability to induce the biotransformation enzyme NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (DT-diaphorase, EC 1.6.99.2) in male Wistar rats. Using the real-time polymerase chain reaction, the levels of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase mRNA were determined in livers, kidneys and lungs of rats treated intraperitoneally with ellipticine (40 mg/kg body weight) and of control (untreated) rats. Cytosolic fractions were isolated from the same tissues of control and ellipticine-treated rats and tested for NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase protein expression and its enzymatic activity. The results demonstrate that ellipticine is a potent inducer of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase in rat livers and kidneys, while no induction of this enzyme was detectable in rat lungs. The increase in levels of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase mRNA correlates with the increase in expression of its protein and enzymatic activity, measured with menadione and 3-nitrobenzanthrone as substrates. The results, the identification of the potential of ellipticine to induce NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase, suggest that this drug is capable of modulating biological efficiencies of the toxicants and/or drugs that are reductively metabolized by this enzyme.
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Stiborova M, Rupertova M, Schmeiser HH, Frei E. Molecular mechanisms of antineoplastic action of an anticancer drug ellipticine. Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub 2006; 150:13-23. [PMID: 16936898 DOI: 10.5507/bp.2006.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Ellipticine is a potent antineoplastic agent exhibiting the multimodal mechanism of its action. This article reviews the mechanisms of predominant pharmacological and cytotoxic effects of ellipticine and shows the results of our laboratories indicating a novel mechanism of its action. The prevalent mechanisms of ellipticine antitumor, mutagenic and cytotoxic activities were suggested to be intercalation into DNA and inhibition of DNA topoisomerase II activity. We demonstrated a new mode of ellipticine action, formation of covalent DNA adducts mediated by its oxidation with cytochromes P450 (CYP) and peroxidases. The article reports the molecular mechanism of ellipticine oxidation by CYPs and identifies human and rat CYPs responsible for ellipticine metabolic activation and detoxication. It also presents a role of peroxidases (i.e. myeloperoxidase, cyclooxygenases, lactoperoxidase) in ellipticine oxidation leading to ellipticine-DNA adducts. The 9-hydroxy- and 7-hydroxyellipticine metabolites formed by CYPs and the major product of ellipticine oxidation by peroxidases, the dimer, in which the two ellipticine skeletons are connected via N(6) of the pyrrole ring of one ellipticine molecule and C9 in the second one, are the detoxication metabolites. On the contrary, 13-hydroxy- and 12-hydroxyellipticine, produced by ellipticine oxidation with CYPs, the latter one formed also spontaneously from another CYP- and peroxidase-mediated metabolite, ellipticine N(2)-oxide, are metabolites responsible for formation of two ellipticine-derived deoxyguanosine adducts in DNA. The results reviewed here allow us to propose species, two carbenium ions, ellipticine-13-ylium and ellipticine-12-ylium, as reactive species generating two major DNA adducts seen in vivo in rats treated with ellipticine. The study forms the basis to further predict the susceptibility of human cancers to ellipticine.
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- Marie Stiborova
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 2030, Prague 2, Czech Republic.
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