Enhancement of fotemustine (Muphoran) cytotoxicity by amifostine in malignant melanoma cell lines.

Anti-cancer Drugs
Jean-Louis MerlinMarie-Gwenaelle Poullain

Abstract

Fotemustine (Muphoran, S10036), a nitrosourea derivative active in the treatment of malignant melanoma and primary brain tumors, was evaluated in combination with the free radicals cytoprotective agent amifostine (Ethyol, WR-2721) and its alkaline phosphatase (AP)-generated active metabolite WR-1065 in four human melanoma (RPMI-7950, SK-MEL2, SK-MEL5 and WM-115) and lung fibroblast (MRC-5) cell lines. No difference in AP activity was found among the melanoma cell lines, but AP was found to be significantly higher in MRC-5. For combination experiments, cell lines were first exposed to amifostine or WR-1065 for 15 min and then exposed to fotemustine for two cell doubling times. Non-cytotoxic amifostine and WR-1065 concentrations used (0.2 and 0.6 and 0.1 and 0.3 mmol/l, respectively) were deduced from clinically achieved plasma values. Interactions were analyzed from the variations in IC(50) of fotemustine induced by pre-exposure of the cells to amifostine or WR-1065. In all melanoma cell lines, amifostine enhanced the cytotoxic activity of fotemustine as a significant decrease in IC(50) was observed. No significant difference was found between synergistic effects achieved with amifostine and WR-1065 given at half concentrations....Continue Reading

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