Antimelanoma activities of chimeric thiazole-androstenone derivatives

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The discovery of chimeric anti-melanoma agents is reported. These molecules are potent growth suppressors of melanoma cells in vitro with growth inhibition of 50% (GI50) values as low as 1.32 µM. Compounds were more toxic to melanoma cells in vitro than commonly used anti-melanoma agent dacarbazine as measured by TUNEL assay. They induced both caspase-independent apoptosis evident by colocalization of TUNEL with endonuclease G (EndoG) and caspase-mediated apoptosis measured by colocalization of TUNEL with caspase-activated DNase (CAD). In addition, compounds 3 and 5 strongly induced oxidative injury to melanoma cells as measured by TUNEL colocalization with heme oxygenase-1 (HO1). Dacarbazine induced only caspase-independent apoptosis, which may explain why it is less cytotoxic to melanoma cells than compounds 3, 4 and 5.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Royal Society open science - 8(2021), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 210395

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chambers, Steven A [VerfasserIn]
Newman, Mathew [VerfasserIn]
Frangie, Melissa M [VerfasserIn]
Savenka, Alena V [VerfasserIn]
Basnakian, Alexei G [VerfasserIn]
Alam, Mohammad A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Androstenone
Apoptosis
Flow cytometry
Journal Article
Melanoma
TUNEL assay
Thiazole

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Date Revised 26.08.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

figshare: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5542597

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1098/rsos.210395

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329732714