Tumor-specificity and type of cell death induced by phenoxazines
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2007

Phenoxazines have shown diverse biological activities, but tumor-specific cytotoxic activity has not been investigated. A total of 24 phenoxazine derivatives (WM1-24) was investigated for their relative cytotoxicity against human tumor cell lines vs. normal cells. WM7 and WM8 showed the highest tumor-specificity index of 4.3 and 4.8, respectively. Considerable difference in drug-sensitivity was found among these tumor cell lines. Human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells showed the highest sensitivity to both WM7 and WM8, followed by human oral squamous cell carcinoma (HSC-2, HSC-3, HSC-4), and human gingival fibroblast (HGF), pulp cell (HPC) and periodontal ligament fibroblast (HPLF) were the most resistant. WM7 and WM8 induced little or no internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, and activated caspase-3 in HSC-2, HSC-4 and human glioblastoma T98G cells. These compounds failed to induce autophagic cell death, as judged by acridine orange and microtubule-associated protein I light chain 3 (LC3)-GFP assays. These results suggested that the higher cytotoxicity of WM7 and WM8 are derived from the positively-charged quaternary nitrogen substituents on the phenoxazine ring and the electron density of nitrogen at N12, and that inhibition of autophagy is not always coupled with apoplosis induction.

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cell death

type of cell death

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cytotoxicity

caspase

phenoxazines

INHIBITORS

Författare

F. Suzuki

K. Hashimoto

M. Ishihara

Gunnar Westman

Chalmers, Kemi- och bioteknik, Organisk kemi

Kristin Samuelsson

Göteborgs universitet

M. Kawase

N. Motohashi

H. Sakagami

Anticancer Research

0250-7005 (ISSN) 17917530 (eISSN)

Vol. 27 6B 4233-4238

Ämneskategorier

Kemiteknik

PubMed

18225595

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2017-10-07