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Novel Symmetrical Cage Compounds as Inhibitors of the Symmetrical MRP4-Efflux Pump for Anticancer Therapy
Authors:David Kreutzer  Henry Dring  Peter Werner  Christoph A Ritter  Andreas Hilgeroth
Affiliation:1.Research Group of Drug Development, Institute of Pharmacy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle, Germany; (D.K.); (H.D.); (P.W.);2.Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute of Pharmacy, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany;
Abstract:Within the last decades cancer treatment improved by the availability of more specifically acting drugs that address molecular target structures in cancer cells. However, those target-sensitive drugs suffer from ongoing resistances resulting from mutations and moreover they are affected by the cancer phenomenon of multidrug resistance. A multidrug resistant cancer can hardly be treated with the common drugs, so that there have been long efforts to develop drugs to combat that resistance. Transmembrane efflux pumps are the main cause of the multidrug resistance in cancer. Early inhibitors disappointed in cancer treatment without a proof of expression of a respective efflux pump. Recent studies in efflux pump expressing cancer show convincing effects of those inhibitors. Based on the molecular symmetry of the efflux pump multidrug resistant protein (MRP) 4 we synthesized symmetric inhibitors with varied substitution patterns. They were evaluated in a MRP4-overexpressing cancer cell line model to prove structure-dependent effects on the inhibition of the efflux pump activity in an uptake assay of a fluorescent MRP4 substrate. The most active compound was tested to resentisize the MRP4-overexpressing cell line towards a clinically relevant anticancer drug as proof-of-principle to encourage for further preclinical studies.
Keywords:anticancer drug  drug resistance  structure activity  synthesis  inhibition
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