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A Comparison of Guanosine-Quartet Inhibitory Effects Versus Cytidine Homopolymer Inhibitory Effects on Rat Neointimal Formation

A Comparison of Guanosine-Quartet Inhibitory Effects Versus Cytidine Homopolymer Inhibitory Effects on Rat Neointimal Formation

W Wang, H J Chen, J Sun, L Benimetskaya, A Schwartz, P Cannon, C A Stein, L E Rabbani

Antisense Nucleic Acid Drug Dev. 1998 Jun;8(3):227-36.

PMID: 9669660

Abstract:

Phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotides (PS oligos) manifest antisense and G-quartet aptameric inhibitory effects on vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation. PS oligo cytidine homopolymers also have nonsequence-specific, non-G-quartet inhibitory effects on in vitro and in vivo SMC proliferation. In this study, we compared the effects of S-dC18 and S-dC28, 18-mer and 28-mer cytidine homopolymers, respectively, which lack guanosines, with those of ZK10, a G-tetrad forming compound, on in vitro SMC proliferation and in vivo neointimal formation. ZK10 significantly inhibited in vitro human aortic SMC proliferation. At the same molar concentration, ZK10 had significantly greater inhibitory potency on SMC proliferation than either S-dC18, S-dC28, or 7DG-ZK10, which is a modified ZK10 with ten 7-deaza guanosine substitutions. ZK10 was significantly more potent than S-dC18 and S-dC28 in inhibiting PDGF-induced in vitro SMC migration. S-dC18, S-dC28, and ZK10 treatment significantly reduced the intima/media area ratio after rat carotid artery balloon injury compared with the values of the control groups. ZK10 was a more potent inhibitor of neointimal formation than the same chain length S-dC18. ZK10 formed higher-order structures, as shown on gel electrophoresis, in contrast to S-dC28 and 7DG-ZK10. Therefore, the 18-mer ZK10 has comparable in vivo SMC inhibitory effects to the 28-mer S-dC28, a fact that may have ramifications for the development of optimal PS oligos to inhibit angioplasty restenosis.

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