Abstract：
:gamma-Carbolines are tricyclic aromatic compounds which intercalate into DNA base pairs and exhibit significant cytotoxic and antitumor activities. These compounds which are structurally related to ellipticine by deletion of an aromatic ring, induce DNA breaks in cultured L1210 cells. Since the mechanism of cytotoxic activity of ellipticines involves DNA topoisomerase II, this enzyme might also be a target for gamma-Carbolines. We have tested this hypothesis using an in vitro system containing purified enzyme and pBR322 DNA. The ability of nine derivatives to stabilize the DNA-enzyme covalent complex was studied and compared to their cytotoxicity. The four less cytotoxic compounds do not induce cleavable complex to a significant extent. In contrast, the two most cytotoxic gamma-Carbolines are the most efficient stabilizers of the cleavable complex. The last three compounds exhibit an intermediate cytotoxicity and cleavage activity. In the presence of gamma-Carbolines, cleavage occurs predominantly at a single site in pBR322 which is one of the cleavage sites observed with ellipticines. The cleavage position was determined at the nucleotide level. The increased DNA cleavage specificity observed with gamma-Carbolines suggests that a tricyclic system is as efficient as ellipticines for DNA topoisomerase II cleavage at DNA sequences involved specifically in cytotoxic response. The data presented support the hypothesis that DNA topoisomerase II is a target involved in the mechanisms of action of antitumor gamma-Carbolines.
journal_name
Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Fossé P,René B,Saucier JM,Nguyen CH,Bisagni E,Paoletti Cdoi
10.1016/0006-2952(90)90144-asubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-02-15 00:00:00pages
669-76issue
4eissn
0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
0006-2952(90)90144-Ajournal_volume
39pub_type
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