Quaternary Benzophenanthridine Alkaloids Act as Smac Mimetics and Overcome Resistance to Apoptosis

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Authors

KULÍŠKOVÁ Petra VAŠÁTKOVÁ Lucie SLANINOVÁ Iva

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/20/15405
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242015405
Keywords apoptosis; benzophenanthridine alkaloids; cancer; cell death; cIAP; Smac mimetic drug resistance; chelerythrine; sanguinarine
Description Defects in cell death signaling pathways are one of the hallmarks of cancer and can lead to resistance to conventional therapy. Natural products are promising compounds that can overcome this resistance. In the present study we studied the effect of six quaternary benzophenanthridine alkaloids (QBAs), sanguinarine, chelerythrine, sanguirubine, chelirubine, sanguilutine, and chelilutine, on Jurkat leukemia cells, WT, and cell death deficient lines derived from them, CASP3/7/6(-/-) and FADD(-/-), and on solid tumor, human malignant melanoma, A375 cells. We demonstrated the ability of QBAs to overcome the resistance of these deficient cells and identified a novel mechanism for their action. Sanguinarine and sanguirubine completely and chelerythrine, sanguilutine, and chelilutine partially overcame the resistance of CASP3/7/6(-/-) and FADD(-/-) cells. By detection of cPARP, a marker of apoptosis, and pMLKL, a marker of necroptosis, we proved the ability of QBAs to induce both these cell deaths (bimodal cell death) with apoptosis preceding necroptosis. We identified the new mechanism of the cell death induction by QBAs, the downregulation of the apoptosis inhibitors cIAP1 and cIAP2, i.e., an effect similar to that of Smac mimetics.
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