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Inhibition of growth of C6 astrocytoma cells by inhibitors of calmodulin.

Abstract：

:We evaluated the effect of several classes of calmodulin inhibitors on the activity of calmodulin prepared from C6 astrocytoma cells and studied the activity of these drugs as inhibitors of the growth of C6 cells in tissue culture. There was a good correlation between the activity of the drugs as inhibitors of calmodulin and their activity as inhibitors of cell growth. The most potent compounds were calmidazolium and melittin as compared to the phenothiazines, trifluoperazine, chlorpromazine, chlorpromazine-sulfoxide or the diphenylbutylpiperidine, pimozide. The mechanism by which the inhibition of calmodulin leads to the death of cells could not be attributed entirely to inhibition of the calmodulin-sensitive cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase. Calmodulin is a heat stable, calcium-binding protein involved in numerous biological processes. Recent evidence indicates that calcium and calmodulin may be important for cellular proliferation. For example, this protein changes in concentration during the cell cycle; is involved in the disassembly of the mitotic apparatus; is increased in concentration in rapidly growing hepatomas and in transformed fibroblasts. Weiss and co-workers demonstrated that phenothiazines and structurally similar drugs are capable of binding to and inhibiting the activity of calmodulin. It has been recently observed that certain drugs that inhibit the activity of calmodulin also inhibit the growth of malignant cells in vitro and in vivo. In these studies, however, there was no direct correlation of the effect of the drugs on the calmodulin from the cell type under investigation with cytotoxicity. To learn more about the relationship between a drug's ability to inhibit calmodulin and its antiproliferative activity, we correlated the effect of drugs on the activity of calmodulin prepared from the C6 astrocytoma cell line with their effect on cellular proliferation. Since many inhibitors of calmodulin readily cross the blood-brain barrier and since no acceptable treatment for malignancies of the central nervous system exist, we chose this cell line as a model for elucidating the potential antineoplastic effects of calmodulin inhibitors.

journal_name

Life Sci

journal_title

Life sciences

authors

Lee GL,Hait WN

doi

10.1016/0024-3205(85)90120-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1985-01-28 00:00:00

pages

347-54

issue

eissn

0024-3205

issn

1879-0631

pii

0024-3205(85)90120-1

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Inhibition of growth of C6 astrocytoma cells by inhibitors of calmodulin.