Paskas Svetlana, Stockmann Philipp, Mijatović Sanja, Kuhnert Lydia, Honscha Walther, Hey-Hawkins Evamarie, Maksimović-Ivanić Danijela
Department of Immunology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", National Institute of Republic of Serbia, Belgrade University, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia.
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Universität Leipzig, Johannisallee 29, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2023 Nov 9;16(11):1582. doi: 10.3390/ph16111582.
The ABCG2 transporter protein, as part of several known mechanisms involved in multidrug resistance, has the ability to transport a broad spectrum of substrates out of the cell and is, therefore, considered as a potential target to improve cancer therapies or as an approach to combat drug resistance in cancer. We have previously reported carborane-functionalized quinazoline derivatives as potent inhibitors of human ABCG2 which effectively reversed breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP)-mediated mitoxantrone resistance. In this work, we present the evaluation of our most promising carboranyl BCRP inhibitors regarding their toxicity towards ABCG2-expressing cancer cell lines (MCF-7, doxorubicin-resistant MCF-7 or MCF-7 Doxo, HT29, and SW480) and, consequently, with the co-administration of an inhibitor and therapeutic agent, their ability to increase the efficacy of therapeutics with the successful inhibition of ABCG2. The results obtained revealed synergistic effects of several inhibitors in combination with doxorubicin or cisplatin. Compounds , , and showed a decrease in IC value in ABCB1- and ABCG2-expressing SW480 cells, suggesting a possible targeting of both transporters. In an HT29 cell line, with the highest expression of ABCG2 among the tested cell lines, using co-treatment of doxorubicin and , the effective inhibitory concentration of the antineoplastic agent could be reduced by half. Interestingly, co-treatment of compound with cisplatin, which is not an ABCG2 substrate, showed synergistic effects in MCF-7 Doxo and HT29 cells (IC values halved or reduced by 20%, respectively). However, a literature-known upregulation of cisplatin-effluxing ABC transporters and their effective inhibition by the carborane derivatives emerges as a possible reason.
ABCG2转运蛋白作为多种已知的多药耐药机制的一部分,具有将多种底物转运出细胞的能力,因此被认为是改善癌症治疗的潜在靶点,或是对抗癌症耐药性的一种方法。我们之前报道过碳硼烷功能化的喹唑啉衍生物是人类ABCG2的有效抑制剂,可有效逆转乳腺癌耐药蛋白(BCRP)介导的米托蒽醌耐药性。在这项工作中,我们评估了最有前景的碳硼烷基BCRP抑制剂对表达ABCG2的癌细胞系(MCF-7、多柔比星耐药的MCF-7或MCF-7 Doxo、HT29和SW480)的毒性,因此,通过抑制剂与治疗剂的联合给药,它们能够在成功抑制ABCG2的情况下提高治疗效果。所获得的结果揭示了几种抑制剂与多柔比星或顺铂联合使用的协同作用。化合物 、 和 在表达ABCB1和ABCG2的SW480细胞中IC值降低,表明这两种转运蛋白可能都是作用靶点。在HT29细胞系中,它在测试的细胞系中ABCG2表达最高,通过多柔比星和 的联合处理,抗肿瘤药物的有效抑制浓度可降低一半。有趣的是,化合物 与不是ABCG2底物的顺铂联合处理,在MCF-7 Doxo和HT29细胞中显示出协同作用(IC值分别减半或降低20%)。然而,文献中已知的顺铂外排ABC转运蛋白的上调及其被碳硼烷衍生物有效抑制可能是一个原因。
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