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An Anticancer Os(II) Bathophenanthroline Complex as a Human Breast Cancer Stem Cell-Selective, Mammosphere Potent Agent That Kills Cells by Necroptosis

An Anticancer Os(II) Bathophenanthroline Complex as a Human Breast Cancer Stem Cell-Selective, Mammosphere Potent Agent That Kills Cells by Necroptosis

Vojtech Novohradsky, Lenka Markova, Hana Kostrhunova, Zdeněk Trávníček, Viktor Brabec, Jana Kasparkova

Sci Rep. 2019 Sep 16;9(1):13327.

PMID: 31527683

Abstract:

Conventional chemotherapy is mostly effective in the treatment of rapidly-dividing differentiated tumor cells but has limited application toward eliminating cancer stem cell (CSC) population. The presence of a very small number of CSCs may contribute to the development of therapeutic resistance, metastases, and relapse. Thus, treatment failure by developing novel anticancer drugs capable of effective targeting of CSCs is at present a major challenge for research focused on chemotherapy of cancer. Here, we show that Os(II) complex 2 [Os(η6-pcym)(bphen)(dca)]PF6 (pcym = p-cymene, bphen = bathophenanthroline, and dca = dichloroacetate), is capable of efficient and selective killing CSCs in heterogeneous populations of human breast cancer cells MCF-7 and SKBR-3. Notably, its remarkable submicromolar potency to kill CSCs is considerably higher than that of its Ru analog, [Ru(η6-pcym)(bphen)(dca)]PF6 (complex 1) and salinomycin, one of the most selective CSC-targeting compounds hitherto identified. Furthermore, Os(II) complex 2 reduces the formation, size, and viability of three-dimensional mammospheres which more closely reflect the tumor microenvironment than cells in traditional two-dimensional cultures. The antiproliferation studies and propidium iodide staining using flow cytometry suggest that Os(II) complex 2 induces human breast cancer stem cell death predominantly by necroptosis, a programmed form of necrosis. The results of this study demonstrate the promise of Os(II) complex 2 in treating human breast tumors. They also represent the foundation for further preclinical and clinical studies and applications of Os(II) complex 2 to comply with the emergent need for human breast CSCs-specific chemotherapeutics capable to treat chemotherapy-resistant and relapsed human breast tumors.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1662017	Bathophenanthroline		1662-01-7	Price

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