IMP dehydrogenase inhibitor mycophenolate mofetil induces caspase-dependent apoptosis and cell cycle inhibition in multiple myeloma cells

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
Naoko TakebeGuido Tricot

Abstract

Multiple myeloma is an incurable disease for the majority of patients, therefore requiring new biological targeted therapies. In primary myeloma cells, IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH) was shown to be consistently overexpressed. We therefore tested the IMPDH inhibitor mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) currently available as a clinical therapeutic agent for its antimyeloma activity in vitro. MMF depleted intracellular guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) levels in myeloma cells. We showed apoptosis induction in myeloma cell lines and primary myeloma cells between 1 and 5 mumol/L MMF. MMF was also cytotoxic at this concentration in dexamethasone-resistant and Mcl-1-overexpressed myeloma cell lines shown by the tetrazolium salt XTT assay along with cell survival measured by a modified flow cytometric assay. Apoptosis was not inhibited by the presence of an antioxidant, suggesting that MMF-induced apoptosis is less likely to be associated with reactive oxygen species. However, apoptosis was abrogated by exogenously added guanosine, which activates an alternative pathway for GTP formation, implicating that this effect is directly mediated by IMPDH inhibition. MMF-induced G1-S phase cell cycle arrest and its apoptosis induction mechanism were associat...Continue Reading

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