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Animal Toxicity of Hairpin Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides Varies with the Turn Unit

[Image: see text] A hairpin pyrrole-imidazole polyamide (1) targeted to the androgen receptor consensus half-site was found to exert antitumor effects against prostate cancer xenografts. A previous animal study showed that 1, which has a chiral amine at the α-position of the γ-aminobutyric acid turn...

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Autores principales: Yang, Fei, Nickols, Nicholas G., Li, Benjamin C., Szablowski, Jerzy O., Hamilton, Shari R., Meier, Jordan L., Wang, Chieh-Mei, Dervan, Peter B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24015881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jm401100s
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Sumario:[Image: see text] A hairpin pyrrole-imidazole polyamide (1) targeted to the androgen receptor consensus half-site was found to exert antitumor effects against prostate cancer xenografts. A previous animal study showed that 1, which has a chiral amine at the α-position of the γ-aminobutyric acid turn (γ-turn), did not exhibit toxicity at doses less than 10 mg/kg. In the same study, a polyamide with an acetamide at the β-position of the γ-turn resulted in animal morbidity at 2.3 mg/kg. To identify structural motifs that cause animal toxicity, we synthesized polyamides 1–4 with variations at the α- and β-positions in the γ-turn. Weight loss, histopathology, and serum chemistry were analyzed in mice post-treatment. While serum concentration was similar for all four polyamides after injection, dose-limiting liver toxicity was only observed for three polyamides. Polyamide 3, with an α-acetamide, caused no significant evidence of rodent toxicity and retains activity against LNCaP xenografts.