1,4-dihydroxy quininib attenuates growth of colorectal cancer cells and xenografts and regulates the TIE-2 signaling pathway in patient tumours

Title
1,4-dihydroxy quininib attenuates growth of colorectal cancer cells and xenografts and regulates the TIE-2 signaling pathway in patient tumours
Publication Date
2019
Author(s)
Butler, Clare T
Kennedy, Susan A
Buckley, Amy
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5080-8580
Email: abuckl23@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:abuckl23
Doyle, Ronan
Conroy, Emer
Gallagher, William M
O’Sullivan, Jacintha
Kennedy, Breandán N
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Impact Journals LLC
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.18632/oncotarget.26966
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/61218
Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer associated deaths in developed countries. Cancer progression and metastatic spread is reliant on new blood vasculature, or angiogenesis. Tumour-related angiogenesis is regulated by proand anti-angiogenic factors secreted from malignant tissue in a stepwise process. Previously we structurally modified the small anti-angiogenic molecule quininib and discovered a more potent anti-angiogenic compound 1, 4 dihydroxy quininib (Q8), an antagonist of cysteinyl leukotriene receptor-1 with VEGF-independent bioactivity. Here, Q8, quininib (Q1) and five structural analogues were assayed for anti-tumorigenic effects in pre-clinical cancer models. Q8 reduced clone formation of the human colorectal cancer cell line HT29-Luc2. Gene silencing of CysLT1 in HT29-Luc2 cells significantly reduced expression of calpain-2. In human ex vivo colorectal cancer tumour explants, Q8 significantly decreased the secretion of both TIE-2 and VCAM-1 expression. In vivo Q8 was well tolerated up to 50 mg/kg by Balb/C mice and significantly more effective at reducing tumour volume in colorectal tumour xenografts compared to the parent drug quininib. In tumour xenografts, Q8 significantly reduced expression of the angiogenic marker calpain-2. In summary, we propose Q8 may act on the TIE-2-Angiopoietin signalling pathway to significantly inhibit the process of tumour angiogenesis in colorectal cancer.

Link
Citation
Oncotarget, 10(38), p. 3725-3744
ISSN
1949-2553
Start page
3725
End page
3744
Rights
ATTRIBUTION 3.0 UNPORTED

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