The plant extract aristolochic acid (AA), containing aristolochic acids I (AAI) and II (AAII) as major components, causes aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN) and Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), unique renal diseases associated with upper urothelial cancer. Recently (Chemical Research in Toxicology 33(11), 2804-2818, 2020), we showed that the in vivo metabolism of AAI and AAII in Wistar rats is influenced by their co-exposure (i.e., AAI/AAII mixture). Using the same rat model, we investigated how exposure to the AAI/AAII mixture can influence AAI and AAII DNA adduct formation (i.e., AA-mediated genotoxicity). Using 32P-postlabelling, we found that AA-DNA adduct formation was increased in the livers and kidneys of rats treated with AAI/AAII mixture compared to rats treated with AAI or AAII alone. Measuring the activity of enzymes involved in AA metabolism, we showed that enhanced AA-DNA adduct formation might be caused partially by both decreased AAI detoxification as a result of hepatic CYP2C11 inhibition during treatment with AAI/AAII mixture and by hepatic or renal NQO1 induction, the key enzyme predominantly activating AA to DNA adducts. Moreover, our results indicate that AAII might act as an inhibitor of AAI detoxification in vivo. Consequently, higher amounts of AAI might remain in liver and kidney tissues, which can be reductively activated, resulting in enhanced AAI DNA adduct formation. Collectively, these results indicate that AAII present in the plant extract AA enhances the genotoxic properties of AAI (i.e., AAI DNA adduct formation). As patients suffering from AAN and BEN are always exposed to the plant extract (i.e., AAI/AAII mixture), our findings are crucial to better understanding host factors critical for AAN- and BEN-associated urothelial malignancy.

• MeSH
• adukty DNA metabolismus   MeSH
• DNA nádorová metabolismus   MeSH
• karcinogeneze * chemicky indukované   metabolismus   MeSH
• karcinogeny toxicita   MeSH
• krysa rodu rattus MeSH
• kyseliny aristolochové toxicita   MeSH
• potkani Wistar MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• krysa rodu rattus MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

• Publikační typ
• abstrakt z konference MeSH

• Publikační typ
• abstrakt z konference MeSH

We studied the in vitro metabolism of the anti-thyroid-cancer drug vandetanib in a rat animal model and demonstrated that N-desmethylvandetanib and vandetanib N-oxide are formed by NADPH- or NADH-mediated reactions catalyzed by rat hepatic microsomes and pure biotransformation enzymes. In addition to the structural characterization of vandetanib metabolites, individual rat enzymes [cytochrome P450 (CYP) and flavin-containing monooxygenase (FMO)] capable of oxidizing vandetanib were identified. Generation of N-desmethylvandetanib, but not that of vandetanib N-oxide, was attenuated by CYP3A and 2C inhibitors while inhibition of FMO decreased formation of vandetanib N-oxide. These results indicate that liver microsomal CYP2C/3A and FMO1 are major enzymes participating in the formation of N-desmethylvandetanib and vandetanib N-oxide, respectively. Rat recombinant CYP2C11 > >3A1 > 3A2 > 1A1 > 1A2 > 2D1 > 2D2 were effective in catalyzing the formation of N-desmethylvandetanib. Results of the present study explain differences between the CYP- and FMO-catalyzed vandetanib oxidation in rat and human liver reported previously and the enzymatic mechanisms underlying this phenomenon.

• MeSH
• antitumorózní látky metabolismus   MeSH
• chinazoliny metabolismus   MeSH
• jaterní mikrozomy MeSH
• krysa rodu rattus MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• oxidace-redukce MeSH
• oxygenasy metabolismus   MeSH
• piperidiny metabolismus   MeSH
• systém (enzymů) cytochromů P-450 metabolismus   MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• krysa rodu rattus MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

BACKGROUND: Xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes (XME) play a critical role in the activation and detoxification of several carcinogens. However, the role of XMEs in colorectal carcinogenesis is unclear. METHODS: We investigated the expression of XMEs in human colorectal tissues among patients with stage I-IV colorectal cancer (n = 71) from the ColoCare Study. Transcriptomic profiling using paired colorectal tumor and adjacent normal mucosa tissues of XMEs (GSTM1, GSTA1, UGT1A8, UGT1A10, CYP3A4, CYP2C9, GSTP1, and CYP2W1) by RNA microarray was compared using Wilcoxon rank-sum tests. We assessed associations between clinicopathologic, dietary, and lifestyle factors and XME expression with linear regression models. RESULTS: GSTM1, GSTA1, UGT1A8, UGT1A10, and CYP3A4 were all statistically significantly downregulated in colorectal tumor relative to normal mucosa tissues (all P ≤ 0.03). Women had significantly higher expression of GSTM1 in normal tissues compared with men (β = 0.37, P = 0.02). By tumor site, CYP2C9 expression was lower in normal mucosa among patients with rectal cancer versus colon cancer cases (β = -0.21, P = 0.0005). Smokers demonstrated higher CYP2C9 expression levels in normal mucosa (β = 0.17, P = 0.02) when compared with nonsmokers. Individuals who used NSAIDs had higher GSTP1 tumor expression compared with non-NSAID users (β = 0.17, P = 0.03). Higher consumption of cooked vegetables (>1×/week) was associated with higher CYP3A4 expression in colorectal tumor tissues (β = 0.14, P = 0.007). CONCLUSIONS: XMEs have lower expression in colorectal tumor relative to normal mucosa tissues and may modify colorectal carcinogenesis via associations with clinicopathologic, lifestyle, and dietary factors. IMPACT: Better understanding into the role of drug-metabolizing enzymes in colorectal cancer may reveal biological differences that contribute to cancer development, as well as treatment response, leading to clinical implications in colorectal cancer prevention and management.

• MeSH
• aminy metabolismus   MeSH
• antioxidancia metabolismus   MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• heterocyklické sloučeniny metabolismus   MeSH
• karcinogeneze patologie   MeSH
• karcinogeny metabolismus   MeSH
• kolorektální nádory patologie   MeSH
• kuřáci statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• nekuřáci statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• polycyklické aromatické uhlovodíky metabolismus   MeSH
• prospektivní studie MeSH
• senioři nad 80 let MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• staging nádorů MeSH
• stanovení celkové genové exprese statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• střevní sliznice enzymologie   patologie   MeSH
• xenobiotika metabolismus   MeSH
• Check Tag
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• senioři nad 80 let MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• multicentrická studie MeSH
• pozorovací studie MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural MeSH

The plant extract aristolochic acid (AA), containing aristolochic acid I (AAI) and II (AAII) as major components, causes aristolochic acid nephropathy and Balkan endemic nephropathy, unique renal diseases associated with upper urothelial cancer. Differences in the metabolic activation and detoxification of AAI and AAII and their effects on the metabolism of AAI/AAII mixture in the plant extract might be of great importance for an individual's susceptibility in the development of AA-mediated nephropathies and malignancies. Here, we investigated in vivo metabolism of AAI and AAII after ip administration to Wistar rats as individual compounds and as AAI/AAII mixture using high performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Experimental findings were supported by theoretical calculations using density functional theory. We found that exposure to AAI/AAII mixture affected the generation of their oxidative and reductive metabolites formed during Phase I biotransformation and excreted in rat urine. Several Phase II metabolites of AAI and AAII found in the urine of exposed rats were also analyzed. Our results indicate that AAI is more efficiently metabolized in rats in vivo than AAII. Whereas AAI is predominantly oxidized during in vivo metabolism, its reduction is the minor metabolic pathway. In contrast, AAII is mainly metabolized by reduction. The oxidative reaction only occurs if aristolactam II, the major reductive metabolite of AAII, is enzymatically hydroxylated, forming aristolactam Ia. In AAI/AAII mixture, the metabolism of AAI and AAII is influenced by the presence of both AAs. For instance, the reductive metabolism of AAI is increased in the presence of AAII while the presence of AAI decreased the reductive metabolism of AAII. These results suggest that increased bioactivation of AAI in the presence of AAII also leads to increased AAI genotoxicity, which may critically impact AAI-mediated carcinogenesis. Future studies are needed to explain the underlying mechanism(s) for this phenomenon.

• MeSH
• hmotnostní spektrometrie s elektrosprejovou ionizací MeSH
• injekce intraperitoneální MeSH
• krysa rodu rattus MeSH
• kyseliny aristolochové aplikace a dávkování   metabolismus   moč   MeSH
• potkani Wistar MeSH
• teorie funkcionálu hustoty MeSH
• vysokoúčinná kapalinová chromatografie MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• krysa rodu rattus MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH

The objective of the project is to study the binding of platinum cytostatics to DNA of human tumor cells (cell lines including chemoresistant ones, tumor samples obtained from patients) and the influences of metallothionein (MT) on this interaction. Amounts of platinum bound to DNA influence successfulness of their anticancer effect. Newly developed electrochemical methods, will be used as an analytical tool for study of Pt-DNA and Pt-MT complexes. Liposome based transporter carrying platinum cytostatics, as well as carrying MTs and/or zinc ions that can modulate the response of cancer cells to treatment with platinum cytostatics will be prepared and tested in vitro and in vivo. We assume that our results and developed techniques will improve usage of platinum cytostatics and will help to reveal the mechanisms of resistance to those cytostatics. Another benefit will be the introduction of new electrochemical method for determination of Pt and its interaction with DNA and MT that may be helpful for clinical practice.

Cílem projektu je studium interakce platinových cytostatik s DNA získané z lidských nádorových buněk (buněčné linie včetně chemorezistentních linií, vzorky nádorů získané od pacientů) a studium vlivu metalothioneninů (MT) na tuto interakci. Množství platiny vázané na DNA ovlivňuje účinnost protinádorového účinku platinových cytostatik. K analýze komplexů Pt-DNA a Pt-MT plánujeme využít nově vyvinuté elektrochemické metody. Dále připravíme liposomální transportéry nesoucí platinová cytostatika a rovněž MT nebo zinkové ionty, které ovlivňují odpověď nádorových buněk na platinová cytostatika. Tyto transportéry budeme testovat in vitro a in vivo. Předpokládáme, že naše výsledky a nově vyvinuté techniky zlepší použití platinových cytostatik a přispějí k objasnění mechanismů rezistence k těmto cytostatikům. Dalším přínosem bude zavedení nových elektrochemických metod ke stanovení Pt a její interakce s DNA a MT, které bude použitelné pro klinickou praxi.

• MeSH
• antitumorózní látky MeSH
• chemorezistence MeSH
• cytostatické látky MeSH
• DNA MeSH
• elektrochemické techniky MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• lyzozomy MeSH
• metalothionein MeSH
• nádory genetika   MeSH
• nanočástice MeSH
• sloučeniny platiny MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH

• Konspekt
• Patologie. Klinická medicína
• NLK Obory
• onkologie
• genetika, lékařská genetika
• NLK Publikační typ
• závěrečné zprávy o řešení grantu AZV MZ ČR

Metal-based coordination compounds, including the well-known cytostatic drug cisplatin, are widely used in the anticancer therapy. Generally, they exhibit high cytotoxicity not only towards malignant cells, but also towards non-malignant cells, which represents main problem of their clinical use. Herein, we describe the synthesis, characterization and biological testing of three trinuclear nickel(II) coordination compounds. Central nickel atoms are bridged by trithiocyanurate anion and coordinated by triamine and bis-benzimidazoles, respectively. To delineate a potential usage in anticancer therapy, we encapsulated the most cytotoxic complex into biomacromolecular protein cage apoferritin (FRT), forming FRTNi. FRT encapsulation markedly decreased the hemotoxicity of free Ni compounds. Despite FRTNi can be internalized through passive targeting by enhanced permeability and retention effect, we further introduced active targeting utilizing folate receptor (FR) via folic acid (FA)-modified FRT (FRTNiFA). Using breast cancer cell lines T-47D (FR+), MCF-7 (FR-) and non-malignant mammary gland derived cell line HBL-100 (FR-), we show pronounced FR-dependent internalization of FRTNiFA. Overall, we demonstrate that the FRT macromolecular nanocarrier provides a very low off-target toxicity, which could enable the use of highly toxic Ni compounds in cancer nanomedicine.

• MeSH
• apoptóza účinky léků   MeSH
• biokompatibilní materiály farmakologie   MeSH
• buněčná smrt účinky léků   MeSH
• buněčné klony MeSH
• endocytóza účinky léků   MeSH
• ferritin metabolismus   MeSH
• komplexní sloučeniny chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   MeSH
• kyselina listová farmakologie   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• ligandy MeSH
• nádorové buněčné linie MeSH
• nikl farmakologie   MeSH
• pohyb buněk účinky léků   MeSH
• proliferace buněk účinky léků   MeSH
• proteiny vázající železo metabolismus   MeSH
• receptory buněčného povrchu metabolismus   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH

Balkan endemic nephropathy is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease with insidious onset, slowly progressing to end-stage renal disease and frequently associated with urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract (UTUC). It was described in South-East Europe at the Balkan peninsula in rural areas around tributaries of the Danube River. After decades of intensive investigation, the causative factor was identified as the environmental phytotoxin aristolochic acid (AA) contained in Aristolochia clematitis, a common plant growing in wheat fields that was ingested through home-baked bread. AA initially was involved in the outbreak of cases of rapidly progressive renal fibrosis reported in Belgium after intake of root extracts of Aristolochia fangchi imported from China. A high prevalence of UTUC was found in these patients. The common molecular link between Balkan and Belgian nephropathy cases was the detection of aristolactam-DNA adducts in renal tissue and UTUC. These adducts are not only biomarkers of prior exposure to AA, but they also trigger urothelial malignancy by inducing specific mutations (A:T to T:A transversion) in critical genes of carcinogenesis, including the tumor-suppressor TP53. Such mutational signatures are found in other cases worldwide, particularly in Taiwan, highlighting the general public health issue of AA exposure by traditional phytotherapies.

• MeSH
• adukty DNA MeSH
• Aristolochia MeSH
• balkánská nefropatie chemicky indukované   diagnóza   patologie   terapie   MeSH
• karcinogeny toxicita   MeSH
• karcinom z přechodných buněk chemicky indukované   MeSH
• kyseliny aristolochové toxicita   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• nádory ledvin chemicky indukované   MeSH
• nádory močovodu chemicky indukované   MeSH
• plošný screening MeSH
• vystavení vlivu životního prostředí škodlivé účinky   MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• přehledy MeSH

Exposure to aristolochic acid (AA) is associated with human nephropathy and urothelial cancer. The tumour suppressor TP53 is a critical gene in carcinogenesis and frequently mutated in AA-induced urothelial tumours. We investigated the impact of p53 on AAI-induced nephrotoxicity and DNA damage in vivo by treating Trp53(+/+), Trp53(+/-) and Trp53(-/-) mice with 3.5 mg/kg body weight (bw) AAI daily for 2 or 6 days. Renal histopathology showed a gradient of intensity in proximal tubular injury from Trp53(+/+) to Trp53(-/-) mice, especially after 6 days. The observed renal injury was supported by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabonomic measurements, where a consistent Trp53 genotype-dependent trend was observed for urinary metabolites that indicate aminoaciduria (i.e. alanine), lactic aciduria (i.e. lactate) and glycosuria (i.e. glucose). However, Trp53 genotype had no impact on AAI-DNA adduct levels, as measured by 32P-postlabelling, in either target (kidney and bladder) or non-target (liver) tissues, indicating that the underlying mechanisms of p53-related AAI-induced nephrotoxicity cannot be explained by differences in AAI genotoxicity. Performing gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) on kidney tissues showed metabolic pathways affected by AAI treatment, but again Trp53 status did not clearly impact on such metabolic profiles. We also cultured primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) derived from Trp53(+/+), Trp53(+/-) and Trp53(-/-) mice and exposed them to AAI in vitro (50 µM for up to 48 h). We found that Trp53 genotype impacted on the expression of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (Nqo1), a key enzyme involved in AAI bioactivation. Nqo1 induction was highest in Trp53(+/+) MEFs and lowest in Trp53(-/-) MEFs; and it correlated with AAI-DNA adduct formation, with lowest adduct levels being observed in AAI-exposed Trp53(-/-) MEFs. Overall, our results clearly demonstrate that p53 status impacts on AAI-induced renal injury, but the underlying mechanism(s) involved remain to be further explored. Despite the impact of p53 on AAI bioactivation and DNA damage in vitro, such effects were not observed in vivo.

• MeSH
• cytochrom P-450 CYP1A1 genetika   MeSH
• exprese genu účinky léků   MeSH
• fibroblasty účinky léků   metabolismus   patologie   MeSH
• kultivované buňky MeSH
• kyseliny aristolochové metabolismus   toxicita   MeSH
• mutageny metabolismus   toxicita   MeSH
• myši inbrední C57BL MeSH
• myši knockoutované MeSH
• NAD(P)H dehydrogenasa (chinon) genetika   MeSH
• nádorový supresorový protein p53 genetika   MeSH
• poškození DNA * MeSH
• proximální tubuly ledvin účinky léků   metabolismus   patologie   MeSH
• vyšetření funkce ledvin MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH