Seleno-L-methionine and L-ascorbic acid differentiate the biological activity of doxorubicin and its metal complexes as a new anticancer drugs candidate

Publication date: Available online 26 March 2018 Source:Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology Author(s): Marzena Matejczyk, Grzegorz Świderski, Renata Świsłocka, Stanisław Józef Rosochacki, Włodzimierz Lewandowski The most important problems of anti-cancer therapy include the toxicity of the drugs applied to healthy cells and the multi-drug cells resistance to chemotherapeutics. One of the most commonly used anticancer drugs is doxorubicin (DOX) used to treat certain leukemias and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, as well as bladder, breast, stomach, lung, ovarian, thyroid, multiple myeloma and other cancers. Preliminary studies showed that metal complex with DOX improve its cytostatic activity with changes in their molecular structure and distribution of electrons, resulting in a substantial change of its biological activity (including antitumor activity). Thus, there is a chance to receiving derivatives of DOX with low toxicity for the healthy body cells, thus increasing its therapeutic selectivity. In the present study we examined the influence of Mn, Mg, Fe, Co and Ni, seleno-L-methionine and vitamin C on biological activity of DOX in prokaryotic model - Escherichia coli RFM443, with plasmid transcriptional fusion of recA promoter and luxCDABE as a reporter gene. Cytotoxic potency of tested chemicals was calculated on the basis of the bacteria culture growth inhibition (GI%) values. Genotoxic properties were calculated on the basis of the fold increase (...
Source: Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology - Category: Biochemistry Source Type: research