Liarozole and 13-cis-retinoic acid anti-prostatic tumor activity

• Published in: Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) Vol. 53; no. 13; pp. 3073 - 3077
• Main Authors: STEARNS, M. E, WANG, M, FUDGE, K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA American Association for Cancer Research 01-07-1993
• Subjects: Animals; Antineoplastic agents; Antineoplastic Agents - administration & dosage; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use; Biological and medical sciences; Bone Neoplasms - prevention & control; Bone Neoplasms - secondary; Cell Adhesion - drug effects; Cell Division - drug effects; Cell Survival - drug effects; Chemotactic Factors - pharmacology; Chemotherapy; Collagenases - drug effects; Collagenases - secretion; Disease Models, Animal; Humans; Imidazoles - administration & dosage; Isotretinoin - administration & dosage; Male; Matrix Metalloproteinase 9; Medical sciences; Mice; Mice, SCID; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Neoplasm Transplantation; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Prostatic Neoplasms - drug therapy; Prostatic Neoplasms - enzymology; Prostatic Neoplasms - pathology; Tumor Cells, Cultured - drug effects; Antineoplastic agent; Human; Drug combination; Urinary system disease; Androgen; Rodentia; Malignant tumor; Prostatic disease; In vivo; Vertebrata; Chemotherapy; Experimental disease; Mammalia; Treatment; Mouse; Animal; Drug interaction; Sex steroid hormone; Male genital diseases; Prostate; Retinoic acid
• ISSN: 0008-5472; 1538-7445

Liarozole fumarate (R85,246), a novel benzimidazole derivative, reduced s.c. and bone metastasis tumor growth by the androgen-independent PC-3ML-B2 human prostatic carcinoma clone in SCID mice. The drug inhibited cell invasion of Matrigel in Boyden chamber chemotactic assays and the secretion of type IV collagenase. In vitro, liarozole failed to inhibit cell proliferation and cell attachment to various substrates (Matrigel, laminin, type IV collagen, and fibronectin). In vivo, the drug also blocked type IV collagenase production in established s.c. tumors. Liarozole has been postulated by others (R. De Coster, W. Wouters, R. Van Ginckel, D. End, et al. J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol., 43: 197-201, 1992) to inhibit retinoic acid catabolism. Our data indicate that liarozole treatment can increase the tumor retinoic acid levels in vivo. Studies of retinoic acid revealed that the drug independently reduced tumor growth in vivo and inhibited cell invasion of Matrigel and the secretion of collagenase IV. Surprisingly, liarozole and retinoic acid failed to exhibit measurable synergistic activity both in vitro and in vivo. Taken together these data suggest that liarozole might inhibit retinoic acid catabolism in vivo and consequently have significant therapeutic value as an anti-prostatic tumor agent.