Efficacy of newly developed platinum complexes against osteosarcoma, bone-targeting platinum, and proteasome inhibitory platinum.

Abstract

10075 Background: Cisplatin is one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs available for the treatment of human solid tumors including osteosarcoma. As we had already reported, we have utilized caffeine in our chemotherapy protocol. And we achieved excellent clinical results. But effectiveness of cisplatin has been limited by side effects, and resistance. Here we developed two novel platinum compounds. 3Pt is trinuclear platinum complex bearing geminal bisphosphonate moieties, 1Pt is mononuclear platinum complex which has proteasome inhibitory activity. We performed comparative studies of our novel platinum compounds with osteosarcoma. Methods: Two novel platinum complexes were synthesized by Prof. Odani at school of pharmaceutical sciences of our university and cisplatin and caffeine were obtained from constructor. Three cell lines (MG63, 143B, and LM8) were used. Cell survival after a 72 hrs exposure to these compounds was assessed by WST-8 assay, and IC50 value was calculated for each compound. Apoptosis was assessed by DNA fragmentation and Annexin V-FITC/propidium iodine assay. Results: Each compound strongly caused concentration-dependent cytocidal effect. IC50 value of trinuclear compound is superior to cisplatin, and both complexes showed caffeine potentiation. Apoptosis induction and acetylation of histon H2AX were observed. In vivo, 1Pt showed almost same, 3Pt showed strong antitumor effect compared to cisplatin. Conclusions: Two novel platinum compounds that we developed showed strong ant-tumor effect in osteosarcoma in vitro and in vivo. As bisphosphonate has high affinity to calcium ions, 3Pt targets bone tissue and expected to reduce side effects at extraskeletal sites and to overcome the drug resistance. Proteasome inhibitory platinum compound has never been reported before, we will investigate its anti-tumor mechanism precisely.