Abstract：
:Retinoic acid isomers have been used with some success as chemotherapeutic agents, most recently with 13-cis retinoic acid showing impressive clinical efficacy in the paediatric malignancy neuroblastoma. The aim of this commentary is to review the evidence that 13-cis retinoic acid is a pro-drug, and consider the implications of retinoid metabolism and isomerisation for the further development of retinoic acid for cancer therapy. The low binding affinity of 13-cis retinoic acid for retinoic acid receptors, low activity in gene expression assays and the accumulation of the all-trans isomer in cells treated with 13-cis retinoic acid, coupled with the more-favourable pharmacokinetic profile of 13-cis retinoic acid compared to other isomers, suggest that intracellular isomerisation to all-trans retinoic acid is the key process underlying the biological activity of 13-cis retinoic acid. Intracellular metabolism of all-trans retinoic acid by a positive auto-regulatory loop may result in clinical resistance to retinoic acid. Agents that block or reduce the metabolism of all-trans retinoic acid are therefore attractive targets for drug development. Devising strategies to deliver 13-cis retinoic acid to tumour cells and facilitate the intracellular isomerisation of 13-cis retinoic acid, while limiting metabolism of all-trans retinoic acid, may have a major impact on the efficacy of 13-cis retinoic acid in paediatric oncology.
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Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Armstrong JL,Redfern CP,Veal GJdoi
10.1016/j.bcp.2005.02.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-05-01 00:00:00pages
1299-306issue
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