Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths among American women. Platinum and taxane combination chemotherapy represents the first-line approach for ovarian cancer, but treatment success is often limited by chemoresistance. Therefore, it is necessary to find new drugs to sensitize ovarian cancer cells to chemotherapy. Persistent activation of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling plays an important role in oncogenesis. Using a novel approach called advanced multiple ligand simultaneous docking (AMLSD), we developed a novel nonpeptide small molecule, LLL12B, which targets the STAT3 pathway. In this study, LLL12B inhibited STAT3 phosphorylation (tyrosine 705) and the expression of its downstream targets, which are associated with cancer cell proliferation and survival. We showed that LLL12B also inhibits cell viability, migration, and proliferation in human ovarian cancer cells. LLL12B combined with either paclitaxel or with cisplatin demonstrated synergistic inhibitory effects relative to monotherapy in inhibiting cell viability and LLL12B-paclitaxel or LLL12B-cisplatin combination exhibited greater inhibitory effects than cisplatin-paclitaxel combination in ovarian cancer cells. Furthermore, LLL12B-paclitaxel or LLL12B-cisplatin combination showed more significant in inhibiting cell migration and growth than monotherapy in ovarian cancer cells. In summary, our results support the novel small molecule LLL12B as a potent STAT3 inhibitor in human ovarian cancer cells and suggest that LLL12B in combination with the current front-line chemotherapeutic drugs cisplatin and paclitaxel may represent a promising approach for ovarian cancer therapy.
卵巢癌是美国妇女癌症死亡的第五大原因。
铂类和
紫杉醇联合化疗代表了卵巢癌的一线治疗方法,但治疗成功通常受限于化疗耐药性。因此,有必要寻找新药物来增加卵巢癌细胞对化疗的敏感性。
信号转导与转录激活因子3(STAT3)信号的持续激活在肿瘤发生中起着重要作用。使用一种称为高级多
配体同时对接(
AML
SD)的新方法,我们开发了一种新型非肽小分子LLL12B,它靶向STAT3通路。在这项研究中,LLL12B抑制了STAT3的
磷酸化(
酪氨酸705位点)以及其下游靶点的表达,这些靶点与癌细胞增殖和存活有关。我们展示了LLL12B还抑制了人类卵巢癌细胞的细胞存活能力、迁移和增殖。LLL12B与
紫杉醇或
顺铂结合相比于单药疗法在抑制细胞存活方面表现出协同抑制效果,LLL12B-
紫杉醇或LLL12B-
顺铂组合在卵巢癌细胞中的抑制效果比
顺铂-
紫杉醇组合更显著。此外,LLL12B-
紫杉醇或LLL12B-
顺铂组合在抑制细胞迁移和生长方面比单药疗法更显著。总之,我们的研究结果支持LLL12B作为一种有效的STAT3
抑制剂在人类卵巢癌细胞中的作用,并建议LLL12B与当前一线化疗药物
顺铂和
紫杉醇的联合可能代表了一种有前途的卵巢癌治疗方法。