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ArticleCancer medicine2023

Drug library screening identifies histone deacetylase inhibition as a novel therapeutic strategy for choriocarcinoma.

Eri Watanabe, Akira Yokoi, Kosuke Yoshida, Mai Sugiyama, Masami Kitagawa, Kimihiro Nishino, Eiko Yamamoto, Kaoru Niimi, Yusuke Yamamoto, Hiroaki Kajiyama

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 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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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eri WatanabeDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Akira YokoiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0789-5102
Kosuke YoshidaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1484-4872
Mai SugiyamaBell Research Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Collaborative Research, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Masami KitagawaBell Research Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Collaborative Research, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Kimihiro NishinoDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Eiko YamamotoDepartment of Healthcare Administration, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Kaoru NiimiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Yusuke YamamotoLaboratory of Integrative Oncology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5262-8479
Hiroaki KajiyamaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Nagoya University · JPNagoya University Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChoriocarcinoma is a rare and aggressive gynecological malignancy. The standard treatment is systemic chemotherapy as choriocarcinoma exhibits high chemosensitivity. However, refractory choriocarcinoma exhibits chemoresistance; thus, the prognosis remains very poor. This study aimed to identify novel therapeutic agents for choriocarcinoma by utilizing a drug repositioning strategy.

methodsThree choriocarcinoma cell lines (JAR, JEG-3, and BeWo) and a human extravillous trophoblast cell line (HTR-8/SVneo) were used for the analyses. The growth inhibitory effects of 1,271 FDA-approved compounds were evaluated in vitro screening assays and selected drugs were tested in tumor-bearing mice. Functional analyses of drug effects were performed based on RNA sequencing.

resultsMuti-step screening identified vorinostat, camptothecin (S, +), topotecan, proscillaridin A, and digoxin as exhibiting an anti-cancer effect in choriocarcinoma cells. Vorinostat, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, was selected as a promising candidate for validation and the IC50 values for choriocarcinoma cells were approximately 1 μM. RNA sequencing and subsequent pathway analysis revealed that the ferroptosis pathway was likely implicated, and key ferroptosis-related genes (i.e., GPX4, NRF2, and SLC3A2) were downregulated following vorinostat treatment. Furthermore, vorinostat repressed tumor growth and downregulated the expression of GPX4 and NRF2 in JAR cell-bearing mice model.

conclusionVorinostat, a clinically approved drug for the treatment of advanced primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, showed a remarkable anticancer effect both in vitro and in vivo by regulating the expression of ferroptosis-related genes. Therefore, vorinostat may be an effective therapeutic candidate for patients with choriocarcinoma.

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ChoriocarcinomaHistone DeacetylasesAnimalsCell Line, TumorFemaleHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHumansHydroxamic AcidsMiceNF-E2-Related Factor 2VorinostatHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsHistone DeacetylasesHydroxamic AcidsNF-E2-Related Factor 2Vorinostatchoriocarcinomadrug repositioningferroptosishistone deacetylase inhibitorsvorinostat

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