title: Antiproliferative and apoptotic activities of ketonucleosides and keto-C-glycosides against non-small-cell lung cancer cells with intrinsic drug resistance.
abstract: We compared the biological activity of a new group of keto-C-glycosides to that of a narrow spectrum of unsaturated ketonucleosides in a panel of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells with various levels of intrinsic resistance to standard chemotherapy drugs. Unlike cisplatin, etoposide, adriamycin, or taxol, for which a significant difference in the cytotoxic effect was observed between sensitive cell lines (H460, H125, and MGH4) and drug-resistant cell lines (H661, MGH7, and FADU), nucleoside analogs were equally cytotoxic in NSCLC cell lines, with compound 92 being 10-fold more active than compound 43, 44, 81, or 161, while compound 3 was the least active. Apoptotic measurements with flow cytometric analysis of terminal uridine deoxynucleotide nick end-labeled cells revealed that the cytotoxic activity of these nucleosides correlated with their potency to induce apoptosis. Compound 92 triggered death in cells with wild-type p53, mutated p53, or p53 gene deletion. Our findings suggest that keto-C-glycosides may be promising alternative anticancer agents which merit further studies in in vivo cancer models refractory to standard chemotherapy drugs.
authors.affiliation: Lady Davis Institute of the Sir Mortimer Jewish General Hospital, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paterson
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Uriel
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Egron
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herscovici
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Antonakis
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Alaoui-Jamali
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D016158:Genes, p53 / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D006027:Glycosides / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D006027:Glycosides; D009705:Nucleosides