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Semi-Synthetic Dihydrotestosterone Derivatives Modulate Inherent Multidrug Resistance and Sensitize Colon Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy. Pharmaceutics 2023; 15:pharmaceutics15020584. [PMID: 36839907 PMCID: PMC9966060 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15020584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a serious hurdle to successful cancer therapy. Here, we examined the efficiency of novel semi-synthetic dihydrotestosterone derivatives, more specifically androstano-arylpyrimidines in inhibiting the efflux activity of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and sensitizing inherently MDR colon cancer cells to various chemotherapy drugs. Using the Rhodamine123 accumulation assay, we evaluated the efflux activity of cancer cells following treatments with androstano-arylpyrimidines. We found that acetylated compounds were capable of attenuating the membrane efflux of inherently MDR cells; however, deacetylated counterparts were ineffective. To delineate the possible molecular mechanisms underlying these unique activities of androstano-arylpyrimidines, the degree of apoptosis induction was assessed by AnnexinV-based assays, both upon the individual as well as by steroid and chemotherapy agent combination treatments. Five dihydrotestosterone derivatives applied in combination with Doxorubicin or Epirubicin triggered massive apoptosis in MDR cells, and these combinations were more efficient than chemotherapy drugs together with Verapamil. Furthermore, our results revealed that androstano-arylpyrimidines induced significant endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER stress) but did not notably modulate ABC transporter expression. Therefore, ER stress triggered by acetylated androstano-arylpyrimidines is probably involved in the mechanism of efflux pump inhibition and drug sensitization which can be targeted in future drug developments to defeat inherently multidrug-resistant cancer.
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Goebel J, Chmielewski J, Hrycyna CA. The roles of the human ATP-binding cassette transporters P-glycoprotein and ABCG2 in multidrug resistance in cancer and at endogenous sites: future opportunities for structure-based drug design of inhibitors. CANCER DRUG RESISTANCE (ALHAMBRA, CALIF.) 2022; 4:784-804. [PMID: 34993424 PMCID: PMC8730335 DOI: 10.20517/cdr.2021.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and ABCG2 are multidrug transporters that confer drug resistance to numerous anti-cancer therapeutics in cell culture. These findings initially created great excitement in the medical oncology community, as inhibitors of these transporters held the promise of overcoming clinical multidrug resistance in cancer patients. However, clinical trials of P-gp and ABCG2 inhibitors in combination with cancer chemotherapeutics have not been successful due, in part, to flawed clinical trial designs resulting from an incomplete molecular understanding of the multifactorial basis of multidrug resistance (MDR) in the cancers examined. The field was also stymied by the lack of high-resolution structural information for P-gp and ABCG2 for use in the rational structure-based drug design of inhibitors. Recent advances in structural biology have led to numerous structures of both ABCG2 and P-gp that elucidated more clearly the mechanism of transport and the polyspecific nature of their substrate and inhibitor binding sites. These data should prove useful helpful for developing even more potent and specific inhibitors of both transporters. As such, although possible pharmacokinetic interactions would need to be evaluated, these inhibitors may show greater effectiveness in overcoming ABC-dependent multidrug resistance in combination with chemotherapeutics in carefully selected subsets of cancers. Another perhaps even more compelling use of these inhibitors may be in reversibly inhibiting endogenously expressed P-gp and ABCG2, which serve a protective role at various blood-tissue barriers. Inhibition of these transporters at sanctuary sites such as the brain and gut could lead to increased penetration by chemotherapeutics used to treat brain cancers or other brain disorders and increased oral bioavailability of these agents, respectively.
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- Jason Goebel
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Gopisetty MK, Adamecz DI, Nagy FI, Baji Á, Lathira V, Szabó MR, Gáspár R, Csont T, Frank É, Kiricsi M. Androstano-arylpyrimidines: Novel small molecule inhibitors of MDR1 for sensitizing multidrug-resistant breast cancer cells. Eur J Pharm Sci 2021; 156:105587. [PMID: 33039566 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2020.105587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Apart from the numerous physiological functions of MDR1, it is widely known for its role in granting multidrug resistance to cancer cells. This ATP-driven transmembrane protein exports a wide range of chemotherapeutic agents from cancer cells, thereby deterring drugs to reach effective intracellular concentrations. Thus, inhibition of MDR1 expression or function would be a viable option to enhance the accumulation of cytotoxic agents in cancer cells which in turn could improve significantly the success rate of chemotherapy. Although, several pharmacological inhibitors have been designed and tested in the past, due to their unsuccessful translation to clinical application, there is still ongoing research to find suitable compounds to manipulate MDR1 function and potentially overturn multidrug resistance. In the present study, we demonstrate that novel DHT-derived A-ring-fused arylpyrimidinone derivatives, based on their acetylation status, can inhibit MDR1 efflux activity in MDR1 overexpressing multidrug-resistant breast adenocarcinoma cells. Strikingly, all derivatives carrying an acetoxy group on the sterane d-ring were highly potent in hindering Rhodamine 123 export via MDR1, however deacetylated molecules were not capable to exert a similar effect on multidrug resistant cancer cells. The possible molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the efflux pump inhibiting function of acetylated derivatives were dissected using the most potent MDR1 inhibitor, compound 10g and its deacetylated counterpart (11g). Importantly, molecule 10g was able to sensitize drug resistant cells to doxorubicin-induced apoptosis, further verifying the highly advantageous nature of efflux pump inhibition upon chemotherapy. Our experiments also revealed that neither mitochondrial damage, nor MDR1 gene regulation could lay behind the MDR1 inhibitory function of compound 10g. Molecular docking studies were carried out to analyze the interactions of 10g and 11g with MDR1, however no significant differences in their binding properties were observed. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the ER stress inducing potential of molecule 10g might be the fundamental mechanism behind its inhibitory action on MDR1. With additional studies, our work can yield a structural platform for a new generation of small molecule MDR1 inhibitors to sensitize drug resistant cancer cells and at the same time it elucidates the exemplary involvement of endoplasmic reticulum stress in the molecular events to defeat multidrug resistance.
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- Mohana Krishna Gopisetty
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctoral School of Biology, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctoral School of Biology, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctoral School of Biology, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 8., Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- School of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece
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- Metabolic Diseases and Cell Signaling (MEDICS) Research Group, Institute of Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9., Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- Metabolic Diseases and Cell Signaling (MEDICS) Research Group, Institute of Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9., Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- Metabolic Diseases and Cell Signaling (MEDICS) Research Group, Institute of Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9., Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 8., Szeged H-6720, Hungary
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctoral School of Biology, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary.
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Salomatina OV, Popadyuk II, Zakharenko AL, Zakharova OD, Chepanova AA, Dyrkheeva NS, Komarova NI, Reynisson J, Anarbaev RO, Salakhutdinov NF, Lavrik OI, Volcho KP. Deoxycholic acid as a molecular scaffold for tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 inhibition: A synthesis, structure-activity relationship and molecular modeling study. Steroids 2021; 165:108771. [PMID: 33221302 DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2020.108771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 11/05/2020] [Accepted: 11/14/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Para-Bromoanilides of deoxycholic acid with various functional groups on the steroid scaffold were designed as promising tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (Tdp1) inhibitors. Tdp1 is a DNA repair enzyme, involved in removing DNA damage caused by topoisomerase I poisons; an important class of anticancer drugs. Thus, reducing the activity of Tdp1 can increase the efficacy of anticancer drugs in current use. Inhibitory activity in the low micromolar and submicromolar concentrations was observed with 3,12-dimethoxy para-bromoanilide 17 being the most active with an IC50 value of 0.27 μM. The activity of N-methyl para-bromoanilides was 3-4.8 times lower than of the corresponding para-bromoanilides. Increased potency of the ligands was seen with higher molecular weight and log P values. The ligands were evaluated for their cytotoxic potential in a panel of tumor cell lines; all were nontoxic to the A549 pulmonary adenocarcinoma cell line. However, derivatives containing a hydroxyl group at the 12th position were more toxic than their 12-hydroxyl group counterparts (acetoxy-, oxo- and methoxy- group) against HCT-116 human colon and HepG2 hepatocellular carcinomas. In addition, an N-methyl substitution led to an increase in toxicity for the HCT-116 and HepG2 cell lines. The excellent activity as well as low cytotoxicity, derivative 17 can be considered as a lead compound for further development.
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- Oksana V Salomatina
- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, SB RAS, 9, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation.
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, SB RAS, 9, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 8, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 8, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 8, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 8, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, SB RAS, 9, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University, Hornbeam Building, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 8, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, SB RAS, 9, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 8, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, SB RAS, 9, Lavrent'ev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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Dong J, Qin Z, Zhang WD, Cheng G, Yehuda AG, Ashby CR, Chen ZS, Cheng XD, Qin JJ. Medicinal chemistry strategies to discover P-glycoprotein inhibitors: An update. Drug Resist Updat 2020; 49:100681. [PMID: 32014648 DOI: 10.1016/j.drup.2020.100681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The presence of multidrug resistance (MDR) in malignant tumors is one of the primary causes of treatment failure in cancer chemotherapy. The overexpression of the ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter, P-glycoprotein (P-gp), which significantly increases the efflux of certain anticancer drugs from tumor cells, produces MDR. Therefore, inhibition of P-gp may represent a viable therapeutic strategy to overcome cancer MDR. Over the past 4 decades, many compounds with P-gp inhibitory efficacy (referred to as first- and second-generation P-gp inhibitors) have been identified or synthesized. However, these compounds were not successful in clinical trials due to a lack of efficacy and/or untoward toxicity. Subsequently, third- and fourth-generation P-gp inhibitors were developed but dedicated clinical trials did not indicate a significant therapeutic effect. In recent years, an extraordinary array of highly potent, selective, and low-toxicity P-gp inhibitors have been reported. Herein, we provide a comprehensive review of the synthetic and natural products that have specific inhibitory activity on P-gp drug efflux as well as promising chemosensitizing efficacy in MDR cancer cells. The present review focuses primarily on the structural features, design strategies, and structure-activity relationships (SAR) of these compounds.
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- Jinyun Dong
- Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, 310022, China; College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- Research Center of Biochemical Engineering Technology, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, Yongzhou 425199, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China
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- The Fred Wyszkowski Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel
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- College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY, 11439, USA
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- College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY, 11439, USA.
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- Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, 310022, China.
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- Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, 310022, China; College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China.
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Gagliardi A, Bonacci S, Paolino D, Celia C, Procopio A, Fresta M, Cosco D. Paclitaxel-loaded sodium deoxycholate-stabilized zein nanoparticles: characterization and in vitro cytotoxicity. Heliyon 2019; 5:e02422. [PMID: 31517130 PMCID: PMC6734341 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Paclitaxel (PTX) is one of the most successful antineoplastic drugs and is widely used for the treatment of many forms of advanced and refractory cancer. Unfortunately, various drawbacks including non-selective cytotoxicity, poor water solubility and low bioavailability limit its clinical use. The aim of this study was to characterize a novel colloidal system made up of the natural protein zein, that would be able to efficiently retain the anticancer compound and increase its in vitro pharmacological effects. In fact, zein has promising characteristics that render it a potential material to be used in drug delivery application. The influences of temperature, pH and serum incubation on the stability of these particles, entrapment efficiency of PTX and in vitro toxicity on different cancer cell lines were evaluated. The nanosystems containing PTX demonstrated suitable storage stability, and were not destabilized by temperatures of up to 50 °C, pH alterations, the freeze-drying process or serum proteins. The encapsulation of PTX did not destabilize the structure of the zein nanoparticles and a suitable drug entrapment efficiency resulted. PTX-loaded zein nanoparticles showed an increased toxicity on different cancer cell lines with respect to the free drug, confirming its potential application in preclinical and clinical investigations.
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- Agnese Gagliardi
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Chieti - Pescara "G. d'Annunzio", via dei Vestini 31, 66100, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100, Catanzaro, Italy
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Radix S, Jordheim AD, Rocheblave L, N'Digo S, Prignon AL, Commun C, Michalet S, Dijoux-Franca MG, Mularoni A, Walchshofer N. N,N′-disubstituted cinnamamide derivatives potentiate ciprofloxacin activity against overexpressing NorA efflux pump Staphylococcus aureus 1199B strains. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 150:900-907. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Kozanecka-Okupnik W, Jasiewicz B, Pospieszny T, Matuszak M, Mrówczyńska L. Haemolytic activity of formyl- and acetyl-derivatives of bile acids and their gramine salts. Steroids 2017; 126:50-56. [PMID: 28711706 DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2017.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Bile acids (lithocholic: LCA, deoxycholic: DCA and cholic: CA) and their formyl- and acetyl-derivatives can be used as starting material in chemical synthesis of compounds with different biological activity strongly depended on their chemical structures. Our previous studies showed that biological activity of bile acids salts with gramine toward human erythrocytes was significantly different from the activity of bile acids alone. Moreover, gramine effectively modified the membrane perturbing activity of other steroids. As a continuation of our work, the haemolytic activity of formyl- and acetyl-substituet bile acids as well as their gramine salts was studied in vitro. The structures of new compounds were confirmed by spectral (NMR, FT-IR) analysis, mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) as well as PM5 semiempirical methods. The results shown that the haemolytic activity of formyl- and acetyl-LCA and DCA was significantly higher in comparison with their native forms at the whole concentration range. At high concentration, formyl derivative of CA was as effective as LCA and DCA derivatives whereas at lower concentration its haemolytic activity was at the level of original acid. The acetyl-CA was not active as membrane perturbing agents. Furthermore, gramine significantly decreased the membrane-perturbing activity of hydrophobic bile acids derivatives. The results obtained with the cellular system are in line with physicochemical calculation.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89b, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89b, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
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