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In vivo drug screening method of radiosensitizers using tumor-bearing chick embryo. Enzymes 2019. [PMID: 31727273 DOI: 10.1016/bs.enz.2019.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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In radiotherapy, tumor hypoxia is the main factor responsible for treatment resistance, and the development of radiosensitizers that can overcome this is imperative. However, many drugs that are effective in vitro and in vivo fail in clinical trials, and thus it is necessary to develop an animal model that can be used for the correct evaluation of pharmacokinetics and activity. Developing chicken eggs are commonly used in various research fields such as anticancer drug sensitivity tests and cardiotoxicity tests. We examined whether the radiosensitizing activity of etanidazole, as a hypoxic cell radiosensitizer, could be evaluated using tumor-bearing chick embryo. Following the transplantation of mouse mammary carcinoma EMT6 cells on day 11, a solid tumor was formed on day 15 and an evaluation of the time-course of the tumor revealed that the tumor weight was the highest on day 18. The maximum dose of etanidazole that did not affect tumor growth and fetal survival was 1.0mg and the maximum X-ray dose was 8Gy. Etanidazole was intravenously administered 10min prior to single dose X-ray irradiation. A significant tumor growth inhibitory effect was confirmed with 1.0mg of etanidazole in combination with 8Gy X-ray. In the case of mouse colon cancer colon26 cells, the combination of 3.0mg of etanidazole and 2Gy X-ray showed 2.79 times higher radiosensitizing activity than that observed for the control group. These results demonstrate that it is possible to evaluate the activity of radiosensitizers using tumor-bearing chick embryo.
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Crisan ME, Gorobet A, Siminel AV, Bourosh PN, Croitor L. A new supramolecular isomer of p-aminobenzoate Zn(II) coordination polymer: Structure and photoluminescent property. Polyhedron 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2019.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Drozd KV, Arkhipov SG, Boldyreva EV, Perlovich GL. Crystal structure of a 1:1 salt of 4-amino-benzoic acid (vitamin B 10) with pyrazinoic acid. Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun 2018; 74:1923-1927. [PMID: 30574402 PMCID: PMC6281118 DOI: 10.1107/s2056989018016663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The title 1:1 salt, C7H8NO2 +·C5H3N2O2 - (systematic name: 4-carb-oxy-anilinium pyrazine-2-carboxyl-ate), was synthesized successfully by slow evaporation of a saturated solution from water-ethanol (1:1 v/v) mixture and characterized by X-ray diffraction (SCXRD, PXRD) and calorimetry (DSC). The crystal structure of the salt was solved and refined at 150 and 293 K. The salt crystallizes with one mol-ecule of 4-amino-benzoic acid (PABA) and one mol-ecule of pyrazinoic acid (POA) in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, the PABA and POA mol-ecules are associated via COOH⋯Narom heterosynthons, which are connected by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, creating zigzag chains. The chains are further linked by N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking inter-actions along the b axis [centroid-to-centroid distances = 3.7377 (13) and 3.8034 (13) Å at 150 and 293 K, respectively] to form a layered three-dimensional structure.
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- K. V. Drozd
- G. A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, Academicheskaya, Ivanovo 153045, Russian Federation
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- Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova str. 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
- Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Kutateladze str. 18, Novosibirsk 630128, Russian Federation
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- Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova str. 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
- G. K. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Laverentiev Ave. 5, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- G. A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, Academicheskaya, Ivanovo 153045, Russian Federation
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Ma P, Sun J, Huang Q, Wang J, Wang Z. β-Cyclodextrin conjugates for the intestinal delivery of p-aminobenzoic acid: synthesis, and in vitro assessment. J INCL PHENOM MACRO 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10847-015-0545-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Crisan ME, Bourosh P, Maffei ME, Forni A, Pieraccini S, Sironi M, Chumakov YM. Synthesis, crystal structure and biological activity of 2-hydroxyethylammonium salt of p-aminobenzoic acid. PLoS One 2014; 9:e101892. [PMID: 25054237 PMCID: PMC4108362 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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p-Aminobenzoic acid (pABA) plays important roles in a wide variety of metabolic processes. Herein we report the synthesis, theoretical calculations, crystallographic investigation, and in vitro determination of the biological activity and phytotoxicity of the pABA salt, 2-hydroxyethylammonium p-aminobenzoate (HEA-pABA). The ability of neutral and anionic forms of pABA to interact with TIR1 pocket was investigated by calculation of molecular electrostatic potential maps on the accessible surface area, docking experiments, Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics calculations. The docking study of the folate precursor pABA, its anionic form and natural auxin (indole-3-acetic acid, IAA) with the auxin receptor TIR1 revealed a similar binding mode in the active site. The phytotoxic evaluation of HEA-pABA, pABA and 2-hydroxyethylamine (HEA) was performed on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Col 0 at five different concentrations. HEA-pABA and pABA acted as potential auxin-like regulators of root development in Arabidopsis thaliana (0.1 and 0.2 mM) and displayed an agravitropic root response at high concentration (2 mM). This study suggests that HEA-pABA and pABA might be considered as potential new regulators of plant growth.
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- Manuela E. Crisan
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry Timisoara of Romanian Academy, Timisoara, Romania
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- Laboratory of Physical Methods of Solid State Investigation “T. Malinowski”, Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, Plant Physiology Unit, Innovation Centre, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
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- ISTM-CNR, Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies of CNR and INSTM UdR, Milano, Italy
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- ISTM-CNR, Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies of CNR and INSTM UdR, Milano, Italy
- Department of Chemistry and INSTM UdR, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
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- ISTM-CNR, Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies of CNR and INSTM UdR, Milano, Italy
- Department of Chemistry and INSTM UdR, University of Milan, Milano, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physical Methods of Solid State Investigation “T. Malinowski”, Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
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Abe C, Uto Y, Nakae T, Shinmoto Y, Sano K, Nakata H, Teraoka M, Endo Y, Maezawa H, Masunaga SI, Nakata E, Hori H. Evaluation of the in vivo radiosensitizing activity of etanidazole using tumor-bearing chick embryo. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2011; 52:208-214. [PMID: 21436611 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.10122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Chick embryos have been used as alternative experimental animals in various research fields, including virology, immunology, toxicology, oncology, and embryology. Until now, there have been no in vivo models using chick embryo to evaluate radiosensitizing activity. Here, the in vivo radiosensitizing activity of etanidazole, a well-known hypoxic cell radiosensitizer, was evaluated using tumor-bearing chick embryo. On the basis of tumor growth, drug administration and X-ray irradiation were performed on day 15 chick embryo, with the endpoint being day 18 chick embryo. In day 15 chick embryo, an X-ray irradiation dose of equal or less than 10 Gy did not cause significant tumor growth suppression. Intravenous administration of equal or less than 1.0 mg of etanidazole did not cause tumor growth suppression. Neither doses of equal or less than 8 Gy of irradiation nor 1.0 mg of etanidazole caused fatality of the chick embryo. On the basis of these results, we evaluated the radiosensitizing effect of a combination treatment with 8 Gy of irradiation and 1.0 mg of etanidazole. As noted above, 1.0 mg of etanidazole alone and 8 Gy of irradiation alone did not show tumor growth suppression. In contrast, a combination treatment with 8 Gy of irradiation and 1.0 mg of etanidazole showed 35% of significant tumor growth suppression. Thus, we succeeded in evaluating the in vivo radiosensitizing activity of etanidazole using tumor-bearing chick embryo. These results suggest that the use of tumor-bearing chick embryo may be part of a promising system for evaluating radiosensitizing activity.
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- Chiaki Abe
- Department of Life System, Institute of Technology and Science, Graduate School, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
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Roik NV, Belyakova LA. Influence of β-cyclodextrin on the protolytic and complexing ability of p-aminobenzoic acid. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024410030143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Roik NV, Belyakova LA. Thermodynamic, IR spectral and X-ray diffraction studies of the “β-cyclodextrin-para-aminobenzoic acid” inclusion complex. J INCL PHENOM MACRO 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s10847-010-9737-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Zhou CH, Cheng SB, Yin HM, He GZ. Detection of OH Radical in the Photodissociation ofp-Aminobenzoic Acid at 266 nm. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2009. [DOI: 10.1088/1674-0068/22/06/681-685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Azab AK, Kleinstern J, Doviner V, Orkin B, Srebnik M, Nissan A, Rubinstein A. Prevention of tumor recurrence and distant metastasis formation in a breast cancer mouse model by biodegradable implant of 131I-norcholesterol. J Control Release 2007; 123:116-22. [PMID: 17854940 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2007.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2007] [Revised: 06/29/2007] [Accepted: 07/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Brachytherapy has many potential roles in cancer therapy. However, major constraints are associated with placement and removal procedures of the brachytherapy machinery. An attractive approach would be the use of a biodegradable implant loaded with a radioisotope, thus enabling targeted radiotherapy, while reducing the need for surgical procedures for the removal of brachytherapy hardware. In this study, crosslinked chitosan (Ct) hydrogels were prepared and loaded with (131)I-norcholesterol ((131)I-NC). The radioactive hydrogels ((131)I-NC-Ct) were implanted adjacent to 4T1 cell-induced tumors in two different xenograft mice models either as primary therapy or surgical adjuvant therapy of breast cancer. Non-treated mice and mice implanted with naive (non-radioactive) hydrogels served as control groups. In the primary therapy model, the progression rate of the tumor was delayed by two weeks compared with the non-treated and the naive-implant control animals, resulting in a one-week extension in the survival of the treated animals. In the adjuvant therapy model, for the treatment of minimal residual disease, (131)I-NC-Ct implants were able to prevent 69% of tumor recurrence, and to prevent metastatic spread resulting in long-term survival, compared with 0% long-term survival of the non-treated and the naive control groups. Imaging of the hydrogel's in vivo elimination revealed a first order process with a half-life of 14 days. The degradation was caused by oxidation of the Ct as was assessed by in vitro H&E stain. Biodegradable radioactive implants are suggested as a novel platform for the delivery of brachytherapy. This radiotherapy regimen may prevent locoregional recurrence and metastatic spread after tumor resection.
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- Abdel Kareem Azab
- Department of Pharmaceutics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Pharmacy, Jerusalem, Israel
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Lago A, Dávalos J, de Brito AN. A density functional and ab initio investigation of the p-aminobenzoic acid molecule. Chem Phys Lett 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2007.06.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Díaz de la Garza RI, Gregory JF, Hanson AD. Folate biofortification of tomato fruit. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:4218-22. [PMID: 17360503 PMCID: PMC1810332 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700409104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Folate deficiency leads to neural tube defects and other human diseases, and is a global health problem. Because plants are major folate sources for humans, we have sought to enhance plant folate levels (biofortification). Folates are synthesized from pteridine, p-aminobenzoate (PABA), and glutamate precursors. Previously, we increased pteridine production in tomato fruit up to 140-fold by overexpressing GTP cyclohydrolase I, the first enzyme of pteridine synthesis. This strategy increased folate levels 2-fold, but engineered fruit were PABA-depleted. We report here the engineering of fruit-specific overexpression of aminodeoxychorismate synthase, which catalyzes the first step of PABA synthesis. The resulting fruit contained an average of 19-fold more PABA than controls. When transgenic PABA- and pteridine-overproduction traits were combined by crossing, vine-ripened fruit accumulated up to 25-fold more folate than controls. Folate accumulation was almost as high (up to 15-fold) in fruit harvested green and ripened by ethylene-gassing, as occurs in commerce. The accumulated folates showed normal proportions of one-carbon forms, with 5-methyltetrahydrofolate the most abundant, but were less extensively polyglutamylated than controls. Folate concentrations in developing fruit did not change in controls, but increased continuously throughout ripening in transgenic fruit. Pteridine and PABA levels in transgenic fruit were >20-fold higher than in controls, but the pathway intermediates dihydropteroate and dihydrofolate did not accumulate, pointing to a flux constraint at the dihydropteroate synthesis step. The folate levels we achieved provide the complete adult daily requirement in less than one standard serving.
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- Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
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- Departments of *Horticultural Sciences and
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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