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ArticleOncotarget2017

Antitumor effect of combination of the inhibitors of two new oncotargets: proton pumps and reverse transcriptase.

Luana Lugini, Ilaria Sciamanna, Cristina Federici, Elisabetta Iessi, Enrico Pierluigi Spugnini, Stefano Fais

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Article in Oncotarget, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luana LuginiDepartment of Therapeutic Research and Medicine Evaluation, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Ilaria SciamannaDepartment of Servizio Biologico e per la Gestione della Sperimentazione Animale (SBGSA), National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Cristina FedericiDepartment of Therapeutic Research and Medicine Evaluation, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Elisabetta IessiDepartment of Therapeutic Research and Medicine Evaluation, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Enrico Pierluigi SpugniniStabilimento Allevatore Fornitore Utilizzatore (SAFU) Department, Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy.
Stefano FaisDepartment of Therapeutic Research and Medicine Evaluation, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Istituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor therapy needs new approaches in order to improve efficacy and reduce toxicity of the current treatments. The acidic microenvironment and the expression of high levels of endogenous non-telomerase reverse transcriptase (RT) are common features of malignant tumor cells. The anti-acidic proton pump inhibitor Lansoprazole (LAN) and the non-nucleoside RT inhibitor Efavirenz (EFV) have shown independent antitumor efficacy. LAN has shown to counteract drug tumor resistance. We tested the hypothesis that combination of LAN and EFV may improve the overall antitumor effects. We thus pretreated human metastatic melanoma cells with LAN and then with EFV, both in 2D and 3D spheroid models. We evaluated the treatment effect by proliferation and cell death/apoptosis assays in classical and in pulse administration experiments. The action of EFV was negatively affected by the tumor microenvironmental acidity, and LAN pretreatment overcame the problem. LAN potentiated the cytotoxicity of EFV to melanoma cells and, when administered during the drug interruption period, prevented the replacement of tumor cell growth.This study supports the implementation of the current therapies with combination of Proton Pumps and Reverse Transcriptase inhibitors.

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AlkynesAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsBenzoxazinesCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCell SurvivalCyclopropanesDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalDrug SynergismHumansLansoprazoleMelanomaProton Pump InhibitorsReverse Transcriptase InhibitorsSpheroids, CellularTumor MicroenvironmentAlkynesBenzoxazinesCyclopropanesefavirenzLansoprazoleProton Pump InhibitorsReverse Transcriptase Inhibitorsefavirenzlansoprazoleproton pump inhibitorsreverse transcriptasetumor acidity

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PMID27926505
PMCPMC5354819
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