ArticleEcancermedicalscience2019
Anticancer response to disulfiram may be enhanced by co-treatment with MEK inhibitor or oxaliplatin: modulation by tetrathiomolybdate, KRAS/BRAF mutations and c-MYC/p53 status.
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- Oxidative Stress in Melanoma: Beneficial Antioxidant and Pro-Oxidant Therapeutic Strategies.Cancers · 2023Review
- Design and Synthesis of Orally Active Quinolyl Pyrazinamides as Sigma 2 Receptor Ligands for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2023Article
- Disruption of Redox Homeostasis by Alterations in Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity and Tetrahydrobiopterin along with Melanoma Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Disulfiram/copper induces antitumor activity against gastric cancer cells in vitro and in vivo by inhibiting S6K1 and c-Myc.Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology · 2022Article
- The Double-Edged Sword of Oxidative Stress in Skin Damage and Melanoma: From Physiopathology to Therapeutical Approaches.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Disulfiram as a Therapeutic Agent for Metastatic Malignant Melanoma-Old Myth or New Logos?Cancers · 2020Review
- Identification of Novel Small-Molecule Kinase Modulators for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma.Oncology and therapy · 2020Article
- Current Biomedical Use of Copper Chelation Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate (TTM) and disulfiram (DSF) are copper (Cu) chelators in cancer clinical trials partly because Cu chelation: a) restricts the activity of Cu-binding MEK1/2 enzymes which drive tumourigenesis by KRAS or BRAF oncogenic mutations and b) enhances uptake of oxaliplatin (OxPt), clinically used in advanced KRAS-mutant colorectal carcinomas (CRC). Whereas TTM decreases intracellular Cu trafficking, DSF can reach other Cu-dependent intracellular proteins. Since the use of individual or combined Cu chelation may help or interfere with anti-cancer therapy, this study investigated whether TTM modifies the response to DSF supplemented with: 1) UO126, a known MEK1/2 inhibitor; 2) other Cu chelators like neocuproine (NC) or 1, 10-o-phenanthroline (OPT) in wt p53 melanoma cells differing in BRAF or KRAS mutations; 3) OxPt in mutant p53 CRC cells devoid of KRAS and BRAF mutations or harbouring either KRAS or BRAF mutations. TTM was not toxic against HIGHLIGHTS: Potentiation of melanoma antitumour toxicity of DSF by MEK inhibitor is reversed by TTM.KRAS/c-MYC dysregulation attenuates TTM reversion of melanoma toxicity by DSF + OPT.KRAS/c-MYC dysregulation increases melanoma NC toxicity reversed by TTM.BRAF mutation and lower c-MYC may attenuate toxicity by DSF ± OxPt in colorectal cancer cells.
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