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Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells
Change in the energy metabolism of cancer cells, which display significant differences compared to normal cells, is a rising phenomenon in developing new therapeutic approaches against cancers. One of the metabolic enzymes, hexokinase-II (HK-II) is involved in glycolysis, and inhibiting the HK-II ac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9168889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35677429 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.828400 |
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author | Uludağ, Damla Bay, Sadık Sucu, Bilgesu Onur Şavluğ İpek, Özgecan Mohr, Thomas Güzel, Mustafa Karakaş, Nihal |
author_facet | Uludağ, Damla Bay, Sadık Sucu, Bilgesu Onur Şavluğ İpek, Özgecan Mohr, Thomas Güzel, Mustafa Karakaş, Nihal |
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description | Change in the energy metabolism of cancer cells, which display significant differences compared to normal cells, is a rising phenomenon in developing new therapeutic approaches against cancers. One of the metabolic enzymes, hexokinase-II (HK-II) is involved in glycolysis, and inhibiting the HK-II activity may be a potential metabolic target for cancer therapy as most of the drugs in clinical use act on DNA damage. Methyl jasmonate (MJ) is one of the compounds blocking HK-II activity in cancer cells. In a previous study, we showed that the novel MJ analogs inhibit HK-II activity through VDAC detachment from the mitochondria. In this study, to evaluate the potential of targeting HK-2 activity, through patient cohort analysis, we first determined HK-2 expression levels and prognostic significance in highly lethal glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumor. We then examined the in vitro therapeutic effects of the novel analogs in the GBM cells. Here, we report that, among all, compound-10 (C-10) showed significant in vitro therapeutic efficacy as compared to MJ which is in use for preclinical and clinical studies. Afterward, we analyzed cell death triggered by C-10 in two different GBM cell lines. We found that C-10 treatment increased the apoptotic/necrotic cells and autophagy in GBM cells. The newly developed analog, C-10, was found to be lethal against GBM by the activation of cell death authorities, mostly in a necrotic and autophagic fashion at the early stages of the treatment. Considering that possibly decreased intracellular ATP levels by C-10 mediated inhibition of HK-2 activity and disabled VDAC interaction, a more detailed analysis of HK-2 inhibition–mediated cell death can provide a deep understanding of the mechanism of action on the oncosis/necroptosis axis. These findings provide an option to design clinically relevant and effective novel HK-II inhibitors and suggest novel MJ analogs to further study them as potential anticancer agents against GBM. |
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spelling | pubmed-91688892022-06-07 Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells Uludağ, Damla Bay, Sadık Sucu, Bilgesu Onur Şavluğ İpek, Özgecan Mohr, Thomas Güzel, Mustafa Karakaş, Nihal Front Pharmacol Pharmacology Change in the energy metabolism of cancer cells, which display significant differences compared to normal cells, is a rising phenomenon in developing new therapeutic approaches against cancers. One of the metabolic enzymes, hexokinase-II (HK-II) is involved in glycolysis, and inhibiting the HK-II activity may be a potential metabolic target for cancer therapy as most of the drugs in clinical use act on DNA damage. Methyl jasmonate (MJ) is one of the compounds blocking HK-II activity in cancer cells. In a previous study, we showed that the novel MJ analogs inhibit HK-II activity through VDAC detachment from the mitochondria. In this study, to evaluate the potential of targeting HK-2 activity, through patient cohort analysis, we first determined HK-2 expression levels and prognostic significance in highly lethal glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumor. We then examined the in vitro therapeutic effects of the novel analogs in the GBM cells. Here, we report that, among all, compound-10 (C-10) showed significant in vitro therapeutic efficacy as compared to MJ which is in use for preclinical and clinical studies. Afterward, we analyzed cell death triggered by C-10 in two different GBM cell lines. We found that C-10 treatment increased the apoptotic/necrotic cells and autophagy in GBM cells. The newly developed analog, C-10, was found to be lethal against GBM by the activation of cell death authorities, mostly in a necrotic and autophagic fashion at the early stages of the treatment. Considering that possibly decreased intracellular ATP levels by C-10 mediated inhibition of HK-2 activity and disabled VDAC interaction, a more detailed analysis of HK-2 inhibition–mediated cell death can provide a deep understanding of the mechanism of action on the oncosis/necroptosis axis. These findings provide an option to design clinically relevant and effective novel HK-II inhibitors and suggest novel MJ analogs to further study them as potential anticancer agents against GBM. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9168889/ /pubmed/35677429 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.828400 Text en Copyright © 2022 Uludağ, Bay, Sucu, Şavluğ İpek, Mohr, Güzel and Karakaş. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Pharmacology Uludağ, Damla Bay, Sadık Sucu, Bilgesu Onur Şavluğ İpek, Özgecan Mohr, Thomas Güzel, Mustafa Karakaş, Nihal Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells |
title | Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells |
title_full | Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells |
title_fullStr | Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells |
title_short | Potential of Novel Methyl Jasmonate Analogs as Anticancer Agents to Metabolically Target HK-2 Activity in Glioblastoma Cells |
title_sort | potential of novel methyl jasmonate analogs as anticancer agents to metabolically target hk-2 activity in glioblastoma cells |
topic | Pharmacology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9168889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35677429 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.828400 |
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