Differential Effects of Doxazosin on Renin-Angiotensin-System- Regulating Aminopeptidase Activities in Neuroblastoma and Glioma Tumoral Cells

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BACKGROUND: It has been described that doxazosin, an antihypertensive drug, also promotes glioblastoma cells death by inhibiting cell proliferation, arresting cell cycle and inducing apoptosis. Doxazosin has also demonstrated several modulator effects on renin-angiotensin system (RAS)- regulating aminopeptidase activities, which are highly involved in tumor growth in experimental glioma. Therefore, it remains to elucidate if the anti-tumoral effects of doxazosin could also be mediated by the proteolytic regulatory components of the RAS.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the effects of doxazosin on cell growth and on RAS-regulating proteolytic regulatory aspartyl aminopeptidase (ASAP), aminopeptidase A (APA), aminopeptidase N (APN), aminopeptidase B (APB) and insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP) specific activities in the human neuroblastoma NB69 and astroglioma U373-MG tumoral cell lines.

METHODS: Human neuroblastoma NB69 and astroglioma U373-MG cell lines were treated with doxazosin 50-500 μM for 24h or 48h. The effects on cell growth and on RAS-regulating aminopeptidase specific activities were analyzed.

RESULTS: Doxazosin treatments promote a concentration-dependent inhibition on cell growth in both NB69 and U373-MG cells, being NB69 cells more sensitive to the drug than U373-MG cells. However, its effects on RAS-regulating aminopeptidase specific activities depend on the concentration used, the duration of the treatment and the cell type. These data confirm the existence of a different dynamic progression of RAS cascade in each tumoral cell line as a consequence of the treatment with doxazosin and time of action, which also implies a very dynamic metabolism of the peptides which participate in each step of RAS cascade.

CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that doxazosin modifies the proteolytic regulatory enzymes of RAS cascade, modulating the bioactive efficacy of the different angiotensin peptides, and therefore, of their functional roles as initiators/promoters of cell proliferation as autocrine/paracrine mediators.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

CNS & neurological disorders drug targets - 18(2019), 1 vom: 01., Seite 29-36

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ramírez-Expósito, María Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-Martos, José Manuel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alpha-1-adrenergic receptor
Aminopeptidase A
Aminopeptidase B
AminopeptidaseN
Aminopeptidases
Antineoplastic Agents
Aspartyl aminopeptidase
Doxazosin
EC 3.4.11.-
Glioma
Insulin regulated aminopeptidase
Journal Article
NW1291F1W8
Neuroblastoma.
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.03.2020

Date Revised 16.03.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2174/1871527317666181029111739

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM290048427