Abstract:
:Hybrid polar compounds, of which hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA) is the prototype, have been shown to be potent inducers of differentiation of many types of transformed cells. With virus-transformed murine erythroleukemia cells as a model, HMBA was shown to cause these cells to arrest in G1 phase and express globin genes. HMBA action involves modulation of factors regulating G1 to S phase progression, including a decrease in the G1 cyclin-dependent kinase 4 accumulation of underphosphorylated retinoblastoma protein, and an increase in the level of both retinoblastoma protein and the related protein, p107. In turn, p107 complexes with transcription factors such as E2F and, presumably, inhibits transcriptional activity of these factors for genes whose products are required for DNA synthesis. This provides a possible mechanism for HMBA-induced terminal cell division of transformed cells. Evidence that hybrid polar compounds have therapeutic potential for cancer treatment is also reviewed.
journal_name
Pharmacol Therjournal_title
Pharmacology & therapeuticsauthors
Rifkind RA,Richon VM,Marks PAdoi
10.1016/0163-7258(95)02044-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-01-01 00:00:00pages
97-102issue
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0163-7258issn
1879-016Xpii
0163-7258(95)02044-6journal_volume
69pub_type
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