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DeBono A, Capuano B, Scammells PJ. Progress Toward the Development of Noscapine and Derivatives as Anticancer Agents. J Med Chem 2015; 58:5699-727. [PMID: 25811651 DOI: 10.1021/jm501180v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Many nitrogen-moiety containing alkaloids derived from plant origins are bioactive and play a significant role in human health and emerging medicine. Noscapine, a phthalideisoquinoline alkaloid derived from Papaver somniferum, has been used as a cough suppressant since the mid 1950s, illustrating a good safety profile. Noscapine has since been discovered to arrest cells at mitosis, albeit with moderately weak activity. Immunofluorescence staining of microtubules after 24 h of noscapine exposure at 20 μM elucidated chromosomal abnormalities and the inability of chromosomes to complete congression to the equatorial plane for proper mitotic separation ( Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 1998 , 95 , 1601 - 1606 ). A number of noscapine analogues possessing various modifications have been described within the literature and have shown significantly improved antiprolific profiles for a large variety of cancer cell lines. Several semisynthetic antimitotic alkaloids are emerging as possible candidates as novel anticancer therapies. This perspective discusses the advancing understanding of noscapine and related analogues in the fight against malignant disease.
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- Aaron DeBono
- Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville Campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
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- Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville Campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
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- Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Parkville Campus), 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
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Risinger AL, Li J, Bennett MJ, Rohena CC, Peng J, Schriemer DC, Mooberry SL. Taccalonolide binding to tubulin imparts microtubule stability and potent in vivo activity. Cancer Res 2013; 73:6780-92. [PMID: 24048820 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-13-1346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The taccalonolides are highly acetylated steroids that stabilize cellular microtubules and overcome multiple mechanisms of taxane resistance. Recently, two potent taccalonolides, AF and AJ, were identified that bind to tubulin directly and enhance microtubule polymerization. Extensive studies were conducted to characterize these new taccalonolides. AF and AJ caused aberrant mitotic spindles and bundling of interphase microtubules that differed from the effects of either paclitaxel or laulimalide. AJ also distinctly affected microtubule polymerization in that it enhanced the rate and extent of polymerization in the absence of any noticeable effect on microtubule nucleation. In addition, the resulting microtubules were found to be profoundly cold stable. These data, along with studies showing synergistic antiproliferative effects between AJ and either paclitaxel or laulimalide, suggest a distinct binding site. Direct binding studies demonstrated that AJ could not be displaced from microtubules by paclitaxel, laulimalide, or denaturing conditions, suggesting irreversible binding of AJ to microtubules. Mass spectrometry confirmed a covalent interaction of AJ with a peptide of β-tubulin containing the cyclostreptin-binding sites. Importantly, AJ imparts strong inter-protofilament stability in a manner different from other microtubule stabilizers that covalently bind to tubulin, consistent with the distinct effects of the taccalonolides as compared with other stabilizers. AF was found to be a potent and effective antitumor agent that caused tumor regression in the MDA-MB-231 breast cancer xenograft model. The antitumor efficacy of some taccalonolides, which stabilize microtubules in a manner different from other microtubule stabilizers, provides the impetus to explore the therapeutic potential of this site.
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- A L Risinger
- Authors' Affiliations: Departments of Pharmacology, Medicine, and Cancer Therapy and Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Maccari G, Mori M, Rodríguez-Salarichs J, Fang W, Díaz JF, Botta M. Free Energy Profile and Kinetics Studies of Paclitaxel Internalization from the Outer to the Inner Wall of Microtubules. J Chem Theory Comput 2012; 9:698-706. [PMID: 26589066 DOI: 10.1021/ct3006612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Several pieces of experimental evidence led us to hypothesize that the mechanism of action of paclitaxel (Taxol) could involve a two-steps binding process, with paclitaxel first binding within the outer wall of microtubules and then moving into the inner binding site. In this work, we first used multiply targeted molecular dynamics (MTMD) for steering paclitaxel from the outer toward the inner binding site. This rough trajectory was then submitted to a refinement procedure in the path collective variables space. Paclitaxel binding energy was monitored along the refined pathway, highlighting the relevance of residues belonging to the H6-H7 and the M- loops. Computational results were supported by kinetics studies performed on fluorescent paclitaxel derivatives.
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- Giorgio Maccari
- Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico Tecnologico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Siena , I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico Tecnologico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Siena , I-53100 Siena, Italy.,Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologia del Farmaco, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" , I-00185 Roma, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas , CSIC, 28040 Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Cuba , La Lisa, Ciudad Habana 17100, Cuba
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- Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences , Beijing 100050, China
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- Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico Tecnologico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Siena , I-53100 Siena, Italy
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Kobayakawa Y, Mori Y, Okajima H, Terada Y, Nakada M. Asymmetric and Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of the DEF-Ring Moiety of (−)-FR182877 and Its Derivative Inducing Mitotic Arrest. Org Lett 2012; 14:2086-9. [DOI: 10.1021/ol300615w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yu Kobayakawa
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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Tanaka Suzuki N, Suzuki T, Matsumura T, Hosoya Y, Nakazato T, Nakada M. Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-FR182877. J SYN ORG CHEM JPN 2011. [DOI: 10.5059/yukigoseikyokaishi.69.646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Magnani M, Maccari G, Andreu JM, Díaz JF, Botta M. Possible binding site for paclitaxel at microtubule pores. FEBS J 2009; 276:2701-12. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.06994.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tanaka N, Suzuki T, Matsumura T, Hosoya Y, Nakada M. Total Synthesis of (−)-FR182877 through Tandem IMDA-IMHDA Reactions and Stereoselective Transition-Metal-Mediated Transformations. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200900097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Tanaka N, Suzuki T, Matsumura T, Hosoya Y, Nakada M. Total Synthesis of (−)-FR182877 through Tandem IMDA-IMHDA Reactions and Stereoselective Transition-Metal-Mediated Transformations. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:2580-3. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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