scholarly journals 20(S)-Protopanaxadiol (PPD) analogues chemosensitize multidrug-resistant cancer cells to clinical anticancer drugs

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4279-4287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhua Liu ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Rongxin Deng ◽  
Min Lei ◽  
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Neoplasma ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (02) ◽  
pp. 379-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.H. ZHANG ◽  
Z.F. GAO ◽  
G.H. DONG ◽  
X. LI ◽  
Y. WU ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-Pu Wu ◽  
Sabrina Lusvarghi ◽  
Jyun-Cheng Wang ◽  
Sung-Han Hsiao ◽  
Yang-Hui Huang ◽  
...  

Multidrug resistance caused by the overexpression of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins in cancer cells remains one of the most difficult challenges faced by drug developers and clinical scientists. The emergence of multidrug-resistant cancers has driven efforts from researchers to develop innovative strategies to improve therapeutic outcomes. Based on the drug repurposing approach, we discovered an additional action of TMP195, a potent and selective inhibitor of class IIa histone deacetylase. We reveal that in vitro TMP195 treatment significantly enhances drug-induced apoptosis and sensitizes multidrug-resistant cancer cells overexpressing ABCB1 or ABCG2 to anticancer drugs. We demonstrate that TMP195 inhibits the drug transport function, but not the protein expression of ABCB1 and ABCG2. The interaction between TMP195 with these transporters was supported by the TMP195-stimulated ATPase activity of ABCB1 and ABCG2, and by in silico docking analysis of TMP195 binding to the substrate-binding pocket of these transporters. Furthermore, we did not find clear evidence of TMP195 resistance conferred by ABCB1 or ABCG2, suggesting that these transporters are unlikely to play a significant role in the development of resistance to TMP195 in cancer patients.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (17) ◽  
pp. 9440
Author(s):  
Chung-Pu Wu ◽  
Yan-Qing Li ◽  
Ya-Chen Chi ◽  
Yang-Hui Huang ◽  
Tai-Ho Hung ◽  
...  

Human ATP-binding cassette (ABC) subfamily G member 2 (ABCG2) mediates the transport of a wide variety of conventional cytotoxic anticancer drugs and molecular targeted agents. Consequently, the overexpression of ABCG2 in cancer cells is linked to the development of the multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype. TP-3654 is an experimental second-generation inhibitor of PIM kinase that is currently under investigation in clinical trials to treat advanced solid tumors and myelofibrosis. In this study, we discovered that by attenuating the drug transport function of ABCG2, TP-3654 resensitizes ABCG2-overexpressing multidrug-resistant cancer cells to cytotoxic ABCG2 substrate drugs topotecan, SN-38 and mitoxantrone. Moreover, our results indicate that ABCG2 does not mediate resistance to TP-3654 and may not play a major role in the induction of resistance to TP-3654 in cancer patients. Taken together, our findings reveal that TP-3654 is a selective, potent modulator of ABCG2 drug efflux function that may offer an additional combination therapy option for the treatment of multidrug-resistant cancers.


Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1366
Author(s):  
Chung-Pu Wu ◽  
Tai-Ho Hung ◽  
Sung-Han Hsiao ◽  
Yang-Hui Huang ◽  
Lang-Cheng Hung ◽  
...  

The development of multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer patients, which is often associated with the overexpression of ABCB1 (MDR1, P-glycoprotein) in cancer cells, remains a significant problem in cancer chemotherapy. ABCB1 is one of the major adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) transporters that can actively efflux a range of anticancer drugs out of cancer cells, causing MDR. Given the lack of Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for multidrug-resistant cancers, we explored the prospect of repurposing erdafitinib, the first fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) kinase inhibitor approved by the FDA, to reverse MDR mediated by ABCB1. We discovered that by reducing the function of ABCB1, erdafitinib significantly resensitized ABCB1-overexpressing multidrug-resistant cancer cells to therapeutic drugs at sub-toxic concentrations. Results of erdafitinib-stimulated ABCB1 ATPase activity and in silico docking analysis of erdafitinib binding to the substrate-binding pocket of ABCB1 further support the interaction between erdafitinib and ABCB1. Moreover, our data suggest that ABCB1 is not a major mechanism of resistance to erdafitinib in cancer cells. In conclusion, we revealed an additional action of erdafitinib as a potential treatment option for multidrug-resistant cancers, which should be evaluated in future drug combination trials.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (38) ◽  
pp. 5088-5114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Xing Qing ◽  
Jia-Lu Huang ◽  
Xue-Yi Yang ◽  
Jing-Hong Liu ◽  
Hua-Liang Cao ◽  
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The severe anticancer situation as well as the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer cells has created an urgent need for the development of novel anticancer drugs with different mechanisms of action. A large number of natural alkaloids, such as paclitaxel, vinblastine and camptothecin have already been successfully developed into chemotherapy agents. Following the success of these natural products, in this review, twenty-six types of isoquinoline alkaloids (a total of 379 alkaloids), including benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline, aporphine, oxoaporphine, isooxoaporphine, dimeric aporphine, bisbenzylisoquinoline, tetrahydroprotoberberine, protoberberine, protopine, dihydrobenzophenanthridine, benzophenanthridine, benzophenanthridine dimer, ipecac, simple isoquinoline, pavine, montanine, erythrina, chelidonine, tropoloisoquinoline, azafluoranthene, phthalideisoquinoline, naphthylisoquinoline, lycorine, crinane, narciclasine, and phenanthridone, were summarized based on their cytotoxic and MDR reversing activities against various cancer cells. Additionally, the structure-activity relationships of different types of isoquinoline alkaloid were also discussed. Interestingly, some aporphine, oxoaporphine, isooxoaporphine, bisbenzylisoquinoline, and protoberberine alkaloids display more potent anticancer activities or anti-MDR effects than positive control against the tested cancer cells and are regarded as attractive targets for discovery new anticancer drugs or lead compounds.


Tumor Biology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 101042831769431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sebastian Yakisich ◽  
Neelam Azad ◽  
Vivek Kaushik ◽  
George A O’Doherty ◽  
Anand Krishnan V Iyer

Multiple factors including tumor heterogeneity and intrinsic or acquired resistance have been associated with drug resistance in lung cancer. Increased stemness and the plasticity of cancer cells have been identified as important mechanisms of resistance; therefore, treatments targeting cancer cells independent of stemness phenotype would be much more effective in treating lung cancer. In this article, we have characterized the anticancer effects of the antibiotic Nigericin in cells displaying varying degrees of stemness and resistance to anticancer drugs, arising from (1) routine culture conditions, (2) prolonged periods of serum starvation. These cells are highly resistant to conventional anticancer drugs such as Paclitaxel, Hydroxyurea, Colchicine, Obatoclax, Wortmannin, and LY294002, and the multidrug-resistant phenotype of cells growing under prolonged periods of serum starvation is likely the result of extensive rewiring of signaling pathways, and (3) lung tumorspheres that are enriched for cancer stem-like cells. We found that Nigericin potently inhibited the viability of cells growing under routine culture conditions, prolonged periods of serum starvation, and lung tumorspheres. In addition, we found that Nigericin downregulated the expression of key proteins in the Wnt canonical signaling pathway such as LRP6, Wnt5a/b, and β-catenin, but promotes β-catenin translocation into the nucleus. The antitumor effects of Nigericin were potentiated by the Wnt activator HLY78 and by therapeutic levels of the US Food and Drug Administration–approved drug Digitoxin and its novel synthetic analog MonoD. We believe that Nigericin may be used in a co-therapy model in combination with other novel chemotherapeutic agents in order to achieve potent inhibition of cancers that display varying degrees of stemness, potentially leading to sustained anticancer effects.


2005 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 3861-3867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie Gouazé ◽  
Yong-Yu Liu ◽  
Carlton S. Prickett ◽  
Jing Y. Yu ◽  
Armando E. Giuliano ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Oanh Thi-Kieu Nguyen

In Viet Nam, data from Conference of Cancer organized by the Ministry of Health has shown that breast cancer is the most popular cancer in women. Current mainly treatments are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. However, the rate of recurrence after five years was very high. One of the causes of high relapse is cancer cells develop multidrug-resistant (MDR) thus reduced the efficiency of treatments. In this research, MTT assay was used for measured cell viability of Vietnamese breast cancer cells (VNBRCA cells) and positive control MCF-7 cell lines after treatment with several anticancer drugs as Doxorubicin (DOX), Tamoxifen (TAM), Mitomycin C (MMC) in 48h. After that, cancer cells were treated at haft maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of anticancer drug and observed cell morphology, apoptosis of cellular nuclear by AO/PI staining. IC50 value of VNBRCA cells with DOX, TAM, MMC were 0.641± 0.07 µM, 4.639 ± 0.933 µM and 1.338 ± 0.176 µM, respectively, which higher than IC50 of MCF-7 with DOX, TAM, MMC was 0.168 ± 0.037 µM, 7.085 ± 0.87 µM and 0.379 ± 0.159 µM, respectively. The response of VNBRCA cells with several anticancer drugs as DOX, TAM, and MMC was lower than the response of MCF-7, therefore, it showed that the specific features of VNBRCA cells; from which develop specific treatments for Vietnamese breast cancer patients.


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