Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2001

Seiten: 2784-2792

Zeitschrift: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Bandnummer: 44

Heftnummer: 17

ISSN: 0022-2623

eISSN: 1520-4804

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/jm001014i

Verlag: American Chemical Society

Abstract: 
Malignant neoplasms of the brain represent the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality in children under the age of 15. The prognosis of patients with glioblastoma multiforme, the most malignant type of gliomas, remains poor offering a median survival time of only 1 year. (2,2 ' :6 ' ,2 " -Terpyridine)platinum(II) complexes are known to possess DNA-intercalating activity and have been shown to be potential chemotherapeutic agents. In the present study we identified the selenoenzyme thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) as a major target of (2,2 ' :6 ' ,2 " -terpyridine)platinum(II) complexes. New complexes were synthesized in order to optimize this inhibition. The NADPH-reduced enzyme is inhibited almost stoichiometrically by the complexes involving a reversible competitive and an irreversible tight-binding component. For the most potent inhibitor, N,S-bis(2,2 ' :6 ' ,2 " -terpyridine)platinum(II)-thioacetimine trinitrate, the Ki for the competitive component of the inhibition is 4 nM and the IC50 for the tight-binding component is 2 nM after an incubation time of 5 min. The closely related but non-selenium-containing enzyme glutathione reductase is much less inhibited (by a factor of > 1000). The platinum complexes were found to strongly inhibit the proliferation of three different glioblastoma cell lines as well as of two different head-and-neck squamous carcinoma cell lines. In a glioblastoma cell culture, less than 10 muM of a platinum(II) compound caused an initial drop of hTrxR activity which was followed by an increase of activity in the surviving cells. A 10 muM inhibitor added every 24 h led to 4% residual hTrxR activity but 100% glutathione reductase activity in the cells surviving for 67 h. The potential of (2,2 ' :6 ' ,2 " -terpyridine)platinum(II) complexes acting simultaneously at two different intracellular targets-hTrxR and DNA-as antitumor agents is discussed.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Becker, K., Herold-Mende, C., Park, J., Lowe, G. and Schirmer, R. (2001) Human thioredoxin reductase is efficiently inhibited by (2,2 ': 6 ',2 ''-terpyridine)platinum(II) complexes. Possible implications for a novel antitumor strategy, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 44(17), pp. 2784-2792. https://doi.org/10.1021/jm001014i

APA-Zitierstil: Becker, K., Herold-Mende, C., Park, J., Lowe, G., & Schirmer, R. (2001). Human thioredoxin reductase is efficiently inhibited by (2,2 ': 6 ',2 ''-terpyridine)platinum(II) complexes. Possible implications for a novel antitumor strategy. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 44(17), 2784-2792. https://doi.org/10.1021/jm001014i