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Druzhyna N, Szczesny B, Olah G, Módis K, Asimakopoulou A, Pavlidou A, Szoleczky P, Gerö D, Yanagi K, Törö G, López-García I, Myrianthopoulos V, Mikros E, Zatarain JR, Chao C, Papapetropoulos A, Hellmich MR, Szabo C. Screening of a composite library of clinically used drugs and well-characterized pharmacological compounds for cystathionine β-synthase inhibition identifies benserazide as a drug potentially suitable for repurposing for the experimental therapy of colon cancer. Pharmacol Res 2016; 113:18-37. [PMID: 27521834 PMCID: PMC5107130 DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2016.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2016] [Revised: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Abstract
Cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS) has been recently identified as a drug target for several forms of cancer. Currently no potent and selective CBS inhibitors are available. Using a composite collection of 8871 clinically used drugs and well-annotated pharmacological compounds (including the LOPAC library, the FDA Approved Drug Library, the NIH Clinical Collection, the New Prestwick Chemical Library, the US Drug Collection, the International Drug Collection, the ‘Killer Plates’ collection and a small custom collection of PLP-dependent enzyme inhibitors), we conducted an in vitro screen in order to identify inhibitors for CBS using a primary 7-azido-4-methylcoumarin (AzMc) screen to detect CBS-derived hydrogen sulfide (H2S) production. Initial hits were subjected to counterscreens using the methylene blue assay (a secondary assay to measure H2S production) and were assessed for their ability to quench the H2S signal produced by the H2S donor compound GYY4137. Four compounds, hexachlorophene, tannic acid, aurintricarboxylic acid and benserazide showed concentration-dependent CBS inhibitory actions without scavenging H2S released from GYY4137, identifying them as direct CBS inhibitors. Hexachlorophene (IC50: ∼60 μM), tannic acid (IC50: ∼40 μM) and benserazide (IC50: ∼30 μM) were less potent CBS inhibitors than the two reference compounds AOAA (IC50: ∼3 μM) and NSC67078 (IC50: ∼1 μM), while aurintricarboxylic acid (IC50: ∼3 μM) was equipotent with AOAA. The second reference compound NSC67078 not only inhibited the CBS-induced AzMC fluorescence signal (IC50: ∼1 μM), but also inhibited with the GYY4137-induced AzMC fluorescence signal with (IC50 of ∼6 μM) indicative of scavenging/non-specific effects. Hexachlorophene (IC50: ∼6 μM), tannic acid (IC50: ∼20 μM), benserazide (IC50: ∼20 μM), and NSC67078 (IC50: ∼0.3 μM) inhibited HCT116 colon cancer cells proliferation with greater potency than AOAA (IC50: ∼300 μM). In contrast, although a CBS inhibitor in the cell-free assay, aurintricarboxylic acid failed to inhibit HCT116 proliferation at lower concentrations, and stimulated cell proliferation at 300 μM. Copper-containing compounds present in the libraries, were also found to be potent inhibitors of recombinant CBS; however this activity was due to the CBS inhibitory effect of copper ions themselves. However, copper ions, up to 300 μM, did not inhibit HCT116 cell proliferation. Benserazide was only a weak inhibitor of the activity of the other H2S-generating enzymes CSE and 3-MST activity (16% and 35% inhibition at 100 μM, respectively) in vitro. Benserazide suppressed HCT116 mitochondrial function and inhibited proliferation of the high CBS-expressing colon cancer cell line HT29, but not the low CBS-expressing line, LoVo. The major benserazide metabolite 2,3,4-trihydroxybenzylhydrazine also inhibited CBS activity and suppressed HCT116 cell proliferation in vitro. In an in vivo study of nude mice bearing human colon cancer cell xenografts, benserazide (50 mg/kg/day s.q.) prevented tumor growth. In silico docking simulations showed that benserazide binds in the active site of the enzyme and reacts with the PLP cofactor by forming reversible but kinetically stable Schiff base-like adducts with the formyl moiety of pyridoxal. We conclude that benserazide inhibits CBS activity and suppresses colon cancer cell proliferation and bioenergetics in vitro, and tumor growth in vivo. Further pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and preclinical animal studies are necessary to evaluate the potential of repurposing benserazide for the treatment of colorectal cancers.
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- Nadiya Druzhyna
- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, Greece; Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery & Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery & Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; CBS Therapeutics Inc., Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; CBS Therapeutics Inc., Galveston, TX, USA.
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Miki H, Takagi M. Design of serum-free medium for suspension culture of CHO cells on the basis of general commercial media. Cytotechnology 2014; 67:689-97. [PMID: 25149286 DOI: 10.1007/s10616-014-9778-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2014] [Accepted: 07/31/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The design of serum-free media for suspension culture of genetically engineered Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells using general commercial media as a basis was investigated. Subcultivation using a commercial serum-free medium containing insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 with or without FCS necessitated additives other than IGF-1 to compensate for the lack of FCS and improve cell growth. Suspension culture with media containing several combinations of growth factors suggested the effectiveness of addition of both IGF-1 and the lipid signaling molecule lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) for promoting cell growth. Subcultivation of CHO cells in suspension culture using the commercial serum-free medium EX-CELL™302, which contained an IGF-1 analog, supplemented with LPA resulted in gradually increasing specific growth rate comparable to the serum-containing medium and in almost the same high antibody production regardless of the number of generations. The culture with EX-CELL™302 supplemented with LPA in a jar fermentor with pH control at 6.9 showed an apparently higher cell growth rate than the cultures without pH control and with pH control at 6.8. The cell growth in the medium supplemented with aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA), which was much cheaper than IGF-1, in combination with LPA was synergistically promoted similarly to that in the medium supplemented with IGF-1 and LPA. In conclusion, the serum-free medium designed on the basis of general commercial media could support the growth of CHO cells and antibody production comparable to serum-containing medium in suspension culture. Moreover, the possibility of cost reduction by the substitution of IGF-1 with ATA was also shown.
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- Hideo Miki
- Advanced Medical Research Laboratories, Research Division, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, 1000 Kamoshida-cho, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 227-0033, Japan,
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Lee TY, Chen WS, Huang YA, Liu TW, Hwang E, Tseng CP. Application of aurintricarboxylic acid for the adherence of mouse P19 neurons and primary hippocampal neurons to noncoated surface in serum-free culture. Biotechnol Prog 2012; 28:1566-74. [PMID: 23011767 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.1638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2012] [Revised: 08/08/2012] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Dissociated primary neuron culture has been the most widely used model systems for neuroscience research. Most of these primary neurons are cultured on adhesion matrix-coated surface to provide a proper environment for cell anchorage under serum-free conditions. In this study, we provide an alternative technique to promote the adhesions of these neurons using aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA), a nonpeptide compound, without surface manipulations. We first demonstrated that ATA could promote Chinese hamster ovary cell attachment and proliferation in serum-free medium in a dosage-dependent manner. We later showed that ATA significantly enhanced the attachment of the retinoic acid differentiated P19 mouse embryonal carcinoma (P19) neurons, with an optimal concentration around 30 μg/mL. A similar result was seen in primary hippocampal neurons, with an optimal ATA concentration around 15 μg/mL. Further morphological assessments revealed that the average neurite length and neuronal polarization were almost identical to that obtained using a conventional method with poly-L-lysine surface. The advantages of using the ATA treatment technique for immunochemical analysis are discussed.
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- Tsung-Yih Lee
- Dept. of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Omasa T. Gene amplification and its application in cell and tissue engineering. J Biosci Bioeng 2005; 94:600-5. [PMID: 16233356 DOI: 10.1016/s1389-1723(02)80201-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2002] [Accepted: 09/24/2002] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Gene amplification means the repeated replication of a certain gene without a proportional increase in the copy number of other genes and is a widespread phenomenon in eukaryotes. It is an important developmental and evolutionary process in many organisms. This article focuses on mammalian gene amplification and its application in cell and tissue engineering. The dhfr gene amplification in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, the gene amplification mechanism, the selection protocol and the application of gene amplification were reviewed.
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- Takeshi Omasa
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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