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Cancer-Cell-Selective Targeting by Arylcyclopropylamine-Vorinostat Conjugates

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2022 Sep 12;13(10):1568-1573. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.2c00126.
Yosuke Ota 1 Yukihiro Itoh 1 2 Takashi Kurohara 1 2 Ritesh Singh 1 3 Elghareeb E Elboray 1 4 Chenliang Hu 2 Farzad Zamani 2 Anirban Mukherjee 2 Yuri Takada 2 Yasunobu Yamashita 2 Mie Morita 5 Mano Horinaka 5 Yoshihiro Sowa 5 Mitsuharu Masuda 5 Toshiyuki Sakai 5 Takayoshi Suzuki 1 2 6
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 606-0823, Japan.
  • 2 SANKEN, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan.
  • 3 Department of Chemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer 305817, India.
  • 4 Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt.
  • 5 Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan.
  • 6 CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan.
Abstract

Anticancer drug delivery by small molecules offers a number of advantages over conventional macromolecular drug delivery systems. We previously developed phenylcyclopropylamine (PCPA)-drug conjugates (PDCs) as small-molecule-based drug delivery vehicles for targeting lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1)-overexpressing cancers. In this study, we applied this PDC strategy to the HDAC-inhibitory Anticancer agent vorinostat. Among three synthesized PCPA or arylcyclopropylamine (ACPA)-vorinostat conjugates 1, 9, and 32, conjugate 32 with a 4-oxybenzyl linker showed sufficient stability in buffer solutions, potent LSD1 inhibition, efficient LSD1-dependent vorinostat release, and potent and selective antiproliferative activity toward LSD1-expressing human breast Cancer and small-cell lung Cancer cell lines. These results indicate that the conjugate selectively releases vorinostat in Cancer cells. A similar strategy may be applicable to other Anticancer drugs.

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