V. Holl et al., Evaluation of the antitumor activity of 1-(3-C-ethynyl-beta-D-ribofuranosyl) (PJ272), a recent ribonucleoside analogue, ANTICANC R, 20(3A), 2000, pp. 1739-1742
The antiproliferative proper ties of a new ribonucleoside derivative, 1-(3'
-C-ethynyl-beta-D-ribofuranosyl) uracil (PJ 272) that we synthesized a few
years ago, were investigated in vitro on a variety of tumor cell lines from
human and murine origins and in vivo, in tumor bearing mice. Using the 3(4
,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, we s
howed the ability of this compound to depress, at nanomolar concentrations,
the growth of leukemia and lymphoma cultured cells. In 7 out of 8 tumor ce
ll lines tested concentration of 50% inhibition (IC50) was found to be less
than 25 nM. PJ 272 was also shown to present the same cytotoxicity against
K562 Adriamycin-resistant cell line, which express a multi-drug resistance
(MDR) phenotype, and its Adriamycin-sensitive parent cell fine. Moreover;
when injected intraperitoneally at 20 mg/kg every three days, PJ 272 was fo
und to significantly increase the survival rate (T/C=149%) of DBA/2 mice in
jected intraperitoneally with L1210 leukemic cells. Taken together; these r
esults suggest that PJ 272 could be considered as a potentially very active
drug against lymphoma and leukemia.