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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
29
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
Although the cyclopentenone prostaglandin A1 (PGA1) is known to arrest the cell cycle at the G1 phase in vitro and to suppress tumor growth in vivo, its relatively weak activity limits its usefulness in cancer chemotherapy. In an attempt to develop antitumor drugs of greater potency and conspicuous biological specificity, we synthesized novel analogs based on the structure of PGA1. Of the newly synthesized analogs, 15-epi-delta7-PGA1 methyl ester (NAG-0092), 12-iso-delta7-PGA1 methyl ester (NAG-0093), and ent-delta7-PGA1 methyl ester (NAG-0022) possess a cross-conjugated dienone structure around the five-member ring with unnatural configurations at C(12) and/or C(15) and were found to be far more potent than native PGA1 in inhibiting cell growth and causing G1 arrest in A172 human glioma cells. These three analogs induced the expression of p21 at both RNA and protein levels in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. Kinase assays with A172 cells treated with these analogs revealed that both cyclin A- and E-dependent kinase activities were markedly reduced, although cyclin D1-dependent kinase activity was unaffected. Immunoprecipitation-Western blot analysis showed that the decrease in cyclin A-dependent kinase activity was due to an increased association of p21 with cyclin A-cyclin-dependent kinase 2 complexes, whereas the decrease in cyclin E-dependent activity was due to a combined mechanism involving reduction in cyclin E protein itself and increased association of p21. Thus, these newly synthesized PGA1 analogs may prove to be powerful tools in cancer chemotherapy as well as in investigations of the structural basis of the antiproliferative activity of A series prostaglandins.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
273
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
18522-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Potent prostaglandin A1 analogs that suppress tumor cell growth through induction of p21 and reduction of cyclin E.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Geriatric Research, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, 36-3 Gengo, Morioka-cho, Obu, Aichi 474, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't