The novel indomethacin derivative CZ-212-3 exerts antitumor effects on castration-resistant prostate cancer by degrading androgen receptor and its variants

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Androgen receptor (AR) serves as a main therapeutic target for prostate cancer (PCa). However, resistance to anti-androgen therapy (SAT) inevitably occurs. Indomethacin is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that exhibits activity against prostate cancer. Recently, we designed and synthesized a series of new indomethacin derivatives (CZ compounds) via Pd (II)-catalyzed synthesis of substituted N-benzoylindole. In this study, we evaluated the antitumor effect of these novel indomethacin derivatives in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Upon employing CCK-8 cell viability assays and colony formation assays, we found that these derivatives had high efficacy against CRPC tumor growth in vitro. Among these derivatives, CZ-212-3 exhibited the most potent efficacy against CRPC cell survival and on apoptosis induction. Mechanistically, CZ-212-3 significantly suppressed the expression of AR target gene networks by degrading AR and its variants. Consistently, CZ-212-3 significantly inhibited tumor growth in CRPC cell line-based xenograft and PDX models in vivo. Taken together, the data show that the indomethacin derivative CZ-212-3 significantly inhibited CRPC tumor growth by degrading AR and its variants and could be a promising agent for CRPC therapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Acta pharmacologica Sinica - 43(2022), 4 vom: 28. Apr., Seite 1024-1032

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Zhe [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Guo-di [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiang-He [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Shan-Shu [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Yin-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ming-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Xue-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Lei, Jin-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Pei-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, De-Peng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jun-Jian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Androgen receptor (AR)
CZ-212-3
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)
Indomethacin
Indomethacin derivatives
Journal Article
Patient-derived xenograft model (PDX)
Receptors, Androgen
XXE1CET956

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Date Completed 05.04.2022

Date Revised 02.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41401-021-00738-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328662674