| Literature DB >> 9914793 |
M Hanada1, S Mizuno, A Fukushima, Y Saito, T Noguchi, T Yamaoka.
Abstract
Amrubicin is a novel, completely synthetic 9-aminoanthracycline derivative. Amrubicin and its C-13 alcohol metabolite, amrubicinol, inhibited purified human DNA topoisomerase II (topo II). Compared with doxorubicin (DXR), amrubicin and amrubicinol induced extensive DNA-protein complex formation and double-strand DNA breaks in CCRF-CEM cells and KU-2 cells. In this study, we found that ICRF-193, a topo II catalytic inhibitor, antagonized both DNA-protein complex formation and double-strand DNA breaks induced by amrubicin and amrubicinol. Coordinately, cell growth inhibition induced by amrubicin and amrubicinol, but not that induced by DXR, was antagonized by ICRF-193. Taken together, these findings indicate that the cell growth-inhibitory effects of amrubicin and amrubicinol are due to DNA-protein complex formation followed by double-strand DNA breaks, which are mediated by topo II.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9914793 PMCID: PMC5921721 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1998.tb00519.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn J Cancer Res ISSN: 0910-5050