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Magalhães CM, Pereira RB, Erbiai EH, González-Berdullas P, da Silva JCGE, Pereira DM, da Silva LP. Comparative investigation into the anticancer activity of analogs of marine coelenterazine and coelenteramine. Bioorg Chem 2024; 144:107083. [PMID: 38219477 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2023.107083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
Abstract
Cancer is still one of the most challenging diseases to treat, making the pursuit for novel molecules with potential anticancer activity an important research topic. Herein, we have performed a comparative investigation into the anticancer activity of analogs of marine coelenterazine and coelenteramine. The former is a well-known bioluminescent substrate, while the latter is a metabolic product of the resulting bioluminescent reaction. While both types of analogs showed anticancer activity toward lung and gastric cancer cell lines, we have obtained data that highlight relevant differences between the activity of these two types of compounds. More specifically, we observed relevant differences in structure-activity relationships between these types of compounds. Also, coelenteramine analogs showed time-dependent activity, while coelenterazine-based compounds usually present time-independent activity. Coelenterazine analogs also appear to be relatively safer toward noncancer cells than coelenteramine analogs. There was also seen a correlation between the activity of the coelenterazine-based compounds and their light-emission properties. Thus, these results further indicate the potential of the marine coelenterazine chemi-/bioluminescent system as a source of new molecules with anticancer activity, while providing more insight into their modes of action.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carla M Magalhães
- Centro de Investigação em Química (CIQUP), Instituto de Ciências Moleculares (IMS), Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- REQUIMTE/LAQV, Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, R. Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação em Química (CIQUP), Instituto de Ciências Moleculares (IMS), Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação em Química (CIQUP), Instituto de Ciências Moleculares (IMS), Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação em Química (CIQUP), Instituto de Ciências Moleculares (IMS), Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal; LACOMEPHI, GreenUPorto, Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- REQUIMTE/LAQV, Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, R. Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigação em Química (CIQUP), Instituto de Ciências Moleculares (IMS), Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal; LACOMEPHI, GreenUPorto, Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
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Magalhaes CM, Dučić T, Pereira RB, González-Berdullas P, Rodríguez-Borges JE, Pereira DM, Esteves da Silva JCG, Algarra M, Pinto da Silva L. Synchrotron-based FTIR evaluation of biochemical changes in cancer and noncancer cells induced by brominated marine coelenteramine. Arch Biochem Biophys 2023:109660. [PMID: 37263463 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2023.109660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
The mode of action toward gastric cancer cells of brominated Coelenteramine, an analog of a metabolic product of a marine bioluminescent reaction, was investigated by synchrotron radiation-based FTIR. This method revealed that the anticancer activity of brominated Coelenteramine is closely connected with cellular lipids, by affecting their organization and composition. More specifically, there is an increasing extent of oxidative stress, which result in changes in membrane polarity, lipid chain packing and lipid composition. However, this effect was not observed in a noncancer cell line, helping to explain its selectivity profile. Thus, synchrotron radiation-based FTIR helped to identity the potential of this Coelenteramine analog in targeting membrane lipids, while proving to be a powerful technique to probe the mechanism of anticancer drugs.
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- Carla M Magalhaes
- Chemistry Research Unit (CIQUP), Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS), Department of Geosciences, Environment and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
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- REQUIMTE/LAQV, Laboratório de Farmacognosia, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, Nº 228, 4050-213, Porto, Portugal
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- Chemistry Research Unit (CIQUP), Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS), Department of Geosciences, Environment and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- LAQV/REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- REQUIMTE/LAQV, Laboratório de Farmacognosia, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, Nº 228, 4050-213, Porto, Portugal
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- Chemistry Research Unit (CIQUP), Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS), Department of Geosciences, Environment and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- INAMAT2 - Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics, Department of Science, Public University of Navarra, Campus de Arrosadia, 31006, Pamplona, Spain.
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- Chemistry Research Unit (CIQUP), Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS), Department of Geosciences, Environment and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal.
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Inouye S, Matsuda K, Nakamura M. Enzymatic sulfation of coelenterazine by human cytosolic aryl sulfotransferase SULT1A1: identification of coelenterazine C2-benzyl monosulfate by LC/ESI-TOF-MS. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2023; 665:133-140. [PMID: 37163933 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Coelenterazine (CTZ) is known as a light-emitting source for the bioluminescence reaction in marine organisms. CTZ has two phenolic hydroxy groups at the C2-benzyl and C6-phenyl positions, and a keto-enol type hydroxy group at the C3-position in the core structure of imidazopyrazinone (= 3,7-dihydroimidazopyrazin-3-one). These hydroxy groups in CTZ could be sulfated by sulfotransferase(s), and the sulfates of Watasenia luciferin (CTZ disulfate at the C2- and C6-positions) and Renilla pre-luciferin (CTZ 3-enol sulfate) have been identified in marine organisms. To characterize the sulfation process of CTZ, human cytosolic aryl sulfotransferase SULT1A1 (SUTase) was used as a model enzyme. The sulfated products catalyzed by SUTase with 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) were analyzed by LC/ESI-TOF-MS. The product was the monosulfate of CTZ and identified as the C2-benzyl sulfate of CTZ (CTZ C2-benzyl monosulfate), but CTZ disulfate, CTZ 3-enol sulfate, and CTZ C6-phenyl monosulfate were not detected. The non-enzymatic oxidation products of dehydrocoelenterazine (dCTZ, dehydrogenated derivative of CTZ), coelenteramide (CTMD), and coelenteramine (CTM) from CTZ were also identified as their monosulfates.
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- Satoshi Inouye
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Dentistry, Aichi Gakuin University, 1-100 Kusumoto-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8650, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, 770-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan
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Inouye S, Nakamura M, Taguchi J, Hosoya T. Identification of a novel oxidation product from yellow fluorophore in the complex of apoPholasin and dehydrocoelenterazine. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2020; 30:127435. [PMID: 32717370 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Revised: 07/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
The complex of the recombinant fusion protein of apoPholasin and glutathione S-transferase (GST-apoPholasin) with non-fluorescent dehydrocoelenterazine (dCTZ) (GST-apoPholasin/dCTZ complex) shows yellow fluorescence at 539 nm by excitation at 430 nm. The GST-apoPholasin/dCTZ complex with a fluorophore (dCTZ*) has considerably weak luminescence activity, converting slowly to a blue fluorescence protein with the emission peak at 430 nm. The main oxidation products from dCTZ* for blue fluorescence were identified as coelenteramine (CTM) and an unreported pyrazine derivative, 3-benzyl-5-(4-hydroxyphenyl)pyrazin-2(1H)-one (CTO) that was confirmed by chemical synthesis.
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- Satoshi Inouye
- Yokohama Research Center, JNC Corporation, 5-1 Okawa, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-8605, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan
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- Laboratory of Chemical Bioscience, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Laboratory of Chemical Bioscience, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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Inouye S, Miura-Sahara Y, Iimori R, Sakata Y, Hazama Y, Yoshida S, Nakamura M, Hosoya T. A novel yellow fluorescent protein of recombinant apoPholasin with dehydrocoelenterazine. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 526:404-9. [PMID: 32223929 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.03.085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
Pholasin is classified as a photoprotein and comprises apoPholasin (an apoprotein of pholasin) and an unknown prosthetic group as the light-emitting source. The luminescence reaction of pholasin is triggered by reactive oxygen species. Recombinant apoPholasin was recently expressed as a fusion protein of glutathione S-transferase (GST-apoPholasin) and purified from E. coli cells. By incubating non-fluorescent dehydrocoelenterazine (dCTZ, dehydrogenated form of CTZ) with GST-apoPholasin, the complex of GST-apoPholasin and dCTZ (GST-apoPholasin/dCTZ complex) was formed immediately and showed bright yellow fluorescence (λmax = 539 nm, excited at 430 nm). Unexpectedly, the fluorescent chromophore of the GST-apoPholasin/dCTZ complex was identified as non-fluorescent dCTZ. The luminescence intensity of the GST-apoPholasin/dCTZ complex was increased in a catalase-H2O2 system, but not in sodium hypochlorite.
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Tessler M, Gaffney JP, Crawford JM, Trautman E, Gujarati NA, Alatalo P, Pieribone VA, Gruber DF. Luciferin production and luciferase transcription in the bioluminescent copepod Metridia lucens. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5506. [PMID: 30233994 PMCID: PMC6140675 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Bioluminescent copepods are often the most abundant marine zooplankton and play critical roles in oceanic food webs. Metridia copepods exhibit particularly bright bioluminescence, and the molecular basis of their light production has just recently begun to be explored. Here we add to this body of work by transcriptomically profiling Metridia lucens, a common species found in temperate, northern, and southern latitudes. In this previously molecularly-uncharacterized species, we find the typical luciferase paralog gene set found in Metridia. More surprisingly, we recover noteworthy putative luciferase sequences that had not been described from Metridia species, indicating that bioluminescence produced by these copepods may be more complex than previously known. This includes another copepod luciferase, as well as one from a shrimp. Furthermore, feeding experiments using mass spectrometry and 13C labelled L-tyrosine and L-phenylalanine firmly establish that M. lucens produces its own coelenterazine luciferin rather than acquiring it through diet. This coelenterazine synthesis has only been directly confirmed in one other copepod species.
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- Michael Tessler
- Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College, New York, NY, United States of America.,Biology, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States of America
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- Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College, New York, NY, United States of America.,Biology, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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