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Optimization of an albumin-binding prodrug of doxorubicin that is cleaved by prostate-specific antigen
Elsadek, Bakheet,Graeser, Ralph,Warnecke, Andre,Unger, Clemens,Saleem, Tahia,El-Melegy, Nagla,Madkor, Hafez,Kratz, Felix
, p. 234 - 238 (2010)
We have developed a novel albumin-binding prodrug of doxorubicin that incorporates p-aminobenzyloxycarbonyl (PABC) as a 1,6 self-immolative spacer in addition to the heptapeptide, Arg-Ser-Ser-Tyr-Tyr-Ser-Leu, as a substrate for the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) that is overexpressed in prostate carcinoma and represents a molecular target for selectively releasing an anticancer agent from a prodrug formulation. The prodrug exhibited good water solubility and was bound rapidly to the cysteine-34 position of human serum albumin. Incubation studies with PSA demonstrated that the albumin-bound form of the prodrug was cleaved rapidly at the P1?P1? scissile bond, releasing H-Ser-Leu-PABC-DOXO, which was further degraded to release doxorubicin as a final cleavage product within a few hours in prostate tumor tissue homogenates as well as in PSA-positive LNCaP LN cell lysates. Moreover, our prodrug exhibited antiproliferative activity in a low micromolar range against a PSA-expressing prostate cancer cell line (LNCaP).
