Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 11 2565-2574
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Acridine-modified, clamp-forming antisense oligonucleotides synergize with cisplatin to inhibit c-Myc expression and B16-F0 tumor progression
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA and 1Department of Internal Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
The c-myc protooncogene plays a key role in the abnormal growth regulation of melanoma cells. We have targeted three polypurine sequences within the mouse myc mRNA with acridine-modified, clamp-forming antisense oligonucleotides (AS ODNs) in an effort to inhibit growth of murine melanoma cells. These ODNs are unique in that they hybridize to the target mRNA by both Watson–Crick and Hoogsteen hydrogen bond interactions, forming a triple-stranded structure. At a concentration of 3 µM E1C, E2C and E3C inhibit B16-F0 proliferation by 76, 66 and 78%, respectively. Both immunofluorescent staining and western blot analysis corroborate a proportional reduction in c-Myc expression by all three ODNs. There were clear distinctions in the ability of these ODNs to inhibit tumor progression in C57BL/6 mice as a function of Myc expression. There was no synergy demonstrated between ODN E1C with cisplatin (DDP), which inhibited tumor growth by 77% alone and 82% in combination. Although E2C inhibited growth by 54%, its effect was decreased to 32% with DDP, when compared with controls. E3C, on the other hand, demonstrated a synergistic effect with DDP, inhibiting growth by 72% in combination, but only by 1% as a single agent. Immunofluorescence analysis of tumors for each group revealed a concomitant reduction in c-Myc expression in tumors from mice treated with the most active clamp ODN alone (E1C) or clamp ODN + DDP (E1C/E3C + DDP). Western blot analysis confirmed this decrease in target protein expression. Our results document the growth-inhibitory activity of two myc-targeting antisense clamp ODNs; E1C, which has activity as a single agent, and E3C, which has in vivo synergy with DDP pretreatment. These data confirm the antiproliferative effects of these novel ODNs and document an interesting synergy with the chemotherapeutic agent DDP.
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