Abstract
The sensitivity of human tumor and rat prostate tumor cells to a series of naphthoquinones, including tricyclic compounds of the beta-lapachone and dunnione families as well as 4-alkoxy-1,2-naphthoquinones, was evaluated. To better understand the mechanism of cytotoxicity of 1,2-naphthoquinones, the roles of various resistance mechanisms including P-glycoprotein, multidrug resistant associated protein, glutathione (GSH) and related enzymes, altered topoisomerase activity, and overexpression of genes that control apoptosis (bcl-2 and bc-xL) were studied. MCF7 cells were most sensitive to the naphthoquinones with IC50 values ranging from 1.1 to 10.8 microM, as compared to 2.5 to >32 microM for HT29 human colon, A549 human lung, CEM leukemia and AT3.1 rat prostate cancer cells. MCF7 ADR cells, selected for resistance to adriamycin (ADR), displayed cross-resistance to the tricyclic 1,2-naphthoquinones. Drug efflux via a P-glycoprotein mechanism was ruled out as a mechanism of resistance to 1,2-naphthoquinones, since KB-V1 cells expressing high levels of P-glycoprotein and the KB-3.1 parent line were equally sensitive to these compounds. Any resistance of the tricyclic naphthoquinones noted in ADR-resistant cells appeared to relate ...Continue Reading
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