Anthrapyridones, a novel group of antitumour non-cross resistant anthraquinone analogues. Synthesis and molecular basis of the cytotoxic activity towards K562/DOX cells
作者:J Tarasiuk、B Stefańska、I Plodzich、K Tkaczyk-Gobis、O Seksek、S Martelli、A Garnier-Suillerot、E Borowski
DOI:10.1038/sj.bjp.0704611
日期:2002.3
Multidrug resistance (MDR) to antitumour agents, structurally dissimilar and having different intracellular targets, is the major problem in cancer therapy. MDR phenomenon is associated with the presence of membrane proteins which belong to the ATP‐binding cassette family transporters responsible for the active drug efflux leading to the decreased intracellular accumulation.
The search of new compounds able to overcome MDR is of prime importance.
Recently we have synthesized a new family of anthrapyridone compounds. The series contained derivatives modified with appropriate hydrophobic or hydrophylic substituents at the side chain.
The interaction of these derivatives with erythroleukemia K562 sensitive and K562/DOX resistant (overexpressing P‐glycoprotein) cell lines has been examined. The study was performed using a spectrofluorometric method which allows to continuously follow the uptake and efflux of fluorescent molecules by living cells.
It was demonstrated that the increase in the lipophilicity of anthrapyridones favoured the very fast cellular uptake exceeding the rate of P‐gp dependent efflux out of the cell. For these derivatives, very high accumulation (the same for sensitive and resistant cells) was observed and the in vitro biological data confirmed that these compounds exhibited comparable cytotoxic activity towards sensitive and P‐gp resistant cell line. In contrast, anthrapyridones modified with hydrophylic substituents exhibited relatively low kinetics of cellular uptake.
For these derivatives decreased accumulation in resistant cells was observed and the in vitro biological data demonstrated that they were much less active against P‐gp resistant cells in comparison to sensitive cells.
We also studied, using confocal microscopy, the intracellular distribution of anthrapyridones in NIH‐3T3 cells. Our data showed that these compounds were strongly accumulated in the nucleus and lysosomes.
British Journal of Pharmacology (2002) 135, 1513–1523; doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0704611
抗肿瘤药物的多重耐药性(MDR)是肿瘤治疗的主要问题,涉及结构各异、作用于不同细胞内靶点的药物。该现象与膜上的ATP结合盒家族转运蛋白有关,这些转运蛋白负责主动药物外排,从而减少细胞内药物的积累。
寻找能够克服MDR的新化合物具有重要意义。
我们最近合成了一类新型蒽酮衍生物,这些化合物在其侧链上带有适当的疏水或亲水取代基。
我们使用荧光分光法研究了这些衍生物与红白血病K562敏感型细胞及其抗性亚系K562/DOX(过表达P-糖蛋白)的相互作用。该方法可以实时跟踪活细胞对荧光分子的摄取和外排。
实验表明,增加蒽酮类化合物的脂ophilicity(脂溶性)有利于快速细胞摄取,超过P-糖蛋白依赖的外排速率。这些衍生物在敏感型和抗性细胞中均表现出非常高的积累,体外生物数据表明这些化合物对敏感型和P-糖蛋白抗性细胞系具有相似的细胞毒性。相反,带有亲水取代基的蒽酮类衍生物表现出相对较低的细胞摄取速率。
对于这些衍生物,在抗性细胞中观察到积累减少,体外生物数据显示它们在抗P-糖蛋白抗性细胞中的活性显著低于敏感型细胞。
我们还利用共聚焦显微镜研究了蒽酮类化合物在NIH-3T3细胞中的细胞内分布。实验数据显示,这些化合物主要在细胞核和溶酶体中积累。
British Journal of Pharmacology (2002) 135, 1513–1523; doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0704611