Abstract
Extracellular acidity is a frequent pathophysiological condition of solid tumors offering possibilities for improving the tumor selectivity of molecular therapy. This might be accomplished by prodrugs with low systemic toxicity, attaining their full antitumor potency only under acidic conditions, such as bis(2-aminoalcoholato-κ²N,O)platinum(II) complexes that are activated by protonation of alcoholato oxygen, resulting in cleavage of platinum–oxygen bonds. In this work, we examined whether the pH dependency of such compounds is reflected in differential biological activity in vitro. In particular, the pH dependence of cytotoxicity, cellular accumulation, DNA platination, GMP binding, effects on DNA secondary structure, cell cycle alterations, and induction of apoptosis was investigated. Enhanced cytotoxicity of five of these complexes in non-small-cell lung cancer (A549) and colon carcinoma (HT-29) cells at pH 6.0 in comparison with pH 7.4 was confirmed: 50 % growth inhibition concentrations ranged from 42 to 214 μM in A549 cells and from 35 to 87 μM in HT-29 cells at pH 7.4 and decreased at pH 6.0 to 11–50 and 7.3–25 μM, respectively. The effects induced by all five pH-sensitive compounds involve increased 5′-GMP binding, cellular accumulation, and DNA platination as well as stronger effects on DNA secondary structure at pH 6.0 than at pH 7.4. As exemplified by treatment of A549 cells with a 2-amino-4-methyl-1-pentanolato complex, induction of apoptosis is enhanced at pH 6.5. These results confirm the increased reactivity and in vitro activity of these compounds under slightly acidic conditions, encouraging further evaluation of ring-closed aminoalcoholatoplatinum(II) derivatives in solid tumors in vivo.
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Abbreviations
- DMEM:
-
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium
- FACS:
-
Fluorescence-activated cell sorting
- GI50:
-
Fifty percent growth inhibition
- JC-1:
-
5,5,6,6-Tetrachloro-1,1,3,3-tetraethylbenzimidazolcarbocyanine iodide
- MTT:
-
3-(4,5-Dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide
- PARP:
-
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
- PBS:
-
Phosphate-buffered saline
- PI:
-
Propidium iodide
- T/C:
-
Treated to control
- Tris:
-
Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane
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This work was supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG, grant M811591; B.K.K.); and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, grant L568; W.B.). Sara Daraei (St.-Marien-Hospital Lünen, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster) is gratefully acknowledged for assistance in writing parts of the manuscript.
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Valiahdi, S.M., Egger, A.E., Miklos, W. et al. Influence of extracellular pH on the cytotoxicity, cellular accumulation, and DNA interaction of novel pH-sensitive 2-aminoalcoholatoplatinum(II) complexes. J Biol Inorg Chem 18, 249–260 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-012-0970-4
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