title: Differential sensitivity of human colon cancer cell lines to the nucleoside analogs ARC and DRB.
abstract: Recently, we identified a nucleoside analog named ARC (4-amino-6-hydrazino-7-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-7H-Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine-5-carboxamide), which has the properties of a general transcriptional inhibitor. Here, we report the characterization of ARC on a panel of colorectal cancer (CRC) cell lines. Cell death induced by ARC in CRC cells was accompanied by caspase-3 cleavage and correlated with the downregulation of antiapoptotic proteins, survivin and Mcl-1 and with the inhibition of Akt phosphorylation. At the same time, colon cancer cell lines were resistant to the well-known nucleoside analog DRB (5,6-dichloro-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylbenzimidazole), which failed to downregulate Mcl-1 or survivin. Overall, ARC could represent an attractive candidate for anti-cancer drug development that targets multiple survival pathways in colon cancer cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
authors.forename: Uppoor G
authors.initials: UG
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.forename: Andrei L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gartel
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D017491:Genes, APC; D006801:Humans; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D009705:Nucleosides