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Bufadienolide type differentiation-inducing agent

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JPH05201868A
JPH05201868A JP4011841A JP1184192A JPH05201868A JP H05201868 A JPH05201868 A JP H05201868A JP 4011841 A JP4011841 A JP 4011841A JP 1184192 A JP1184192 A JP 1184192A JP H05201868 A JPH05201868 A JP H05201868A
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Yukio Kuroiwa
幸雄 黒岩
Reishiya Chiyou
麗莎 張
Kazuyasu Nakatani
一泰 中谷
Takemi Yoshida
武美 吉田
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Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the subject inducing agent comprising a compound having a bufadienolide structural formula, excellent in the leukemia cell differentiation- inducing activity, absorbability and persistence and useful as an antitumor agent, etc. CONSTITUTION:The objective inducing agent comprises a compound having an bufadienolide structural formula of formula I (R1, R2 are H hydroxyl group; R3 is H, aliphatic acid residue, amino acid residue, saccharide residue) or formula II (R is H, acetyl) which has an ability to induce the differentiation of cells such as various leukemia cells.

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【発明の詳細な説明】Detailed Description of the Invention

【0001】[0001]

【産業上の利用分野】この発明は、ブファジェノリド型
分化誘導剤に関するものであり、特に白血病などの腫瘍
細胞の分化を促進させる治療薬に関するものである。
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bufagenolide type differentiation inducer, and more particularly to a therapeutic agent for promoting differentiation of tumor cells such as leukemia.

【0002】[0002]

【従来の技術】従来から分化誘導作用を有する化合物が
種々研究されており、腫瘍細胞の分化を促進して脱癌さ
せる分化誘導活性を示す制癌化合物、例えばオールトラ
ンスレチノイン酸が知られている。
2. Description of the Related Art Various compounds having a differentiation inducing action have been studied so far, and an antitumor compound having a differentiation inducing activity for promoting tumor cell differentiation and decancerizing, for example, all-trans retinoic acid is known. ..

【0003】[0003]

【発明が解決しようとする課題】しかしながら、各種白
血病細胞に共通して分化誘導能を示す化合物は極めて少
ない。
However, very few compounds have the ability to induce differentiation commonly in various leukemia cells.

【0004】[0004]

【発明の目的】そこで、本発明は、各種白血病細胞に共
通して分化誘導能を示す新たな化合物を発見して分化誘
導剤すなわち抗腫瘍剤として提供することを目的として
いる。
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to discover a new compound having a differentiation-inducing ability common to various leukemia cells and provide it as a differentiation-inducing agent, that is, an antitumor agent.

【0005】[0005]

【課題を解決するための手段】この目的を達成するた
め、この発明は、ブファジェノリドの構造式をもった化
合物を細胞分化誘導剤として提供している。また、この
化合物を各種白血病細胞に適用するようにしている。
In order to achieve this object, the present invention provides a compound having the structural formula of bufagenolide as a cell differentiation inducer. Moreover, this compound is applied to various leukemia cells.

【0006】[0006]

【作用】ブファジェノリド型分化誘導剤を癌細胞に適用
すると、癌細胞を分化促進して通常細胞に変化させる。
特に白血病細胞に抗腫瘍剤として働かせると分化誘導能
を発揮して脱癌させる。
When a bufagenolide type differentiation inducer is applied to cancer cells, they promote the differentiation of cancer cells and change them into normal cells.
In particular, when it acts on leukemia cells as an antitumor agent, it exerts differentiation-inducing ability to decancerize.

【0007】[0007]

【実施例】本発明者は、永年の研究の結果、従来より家
庭薬や漢方薬として利用されているセンソに着目した。
センソはシナヒキガエルまたは近縁種の毒腺の分泌物を
集めて乾燥したもので、強心剤、局所麻酔薬や皮膚腫瘍
の治療薬として使用されたものである。
EXAMPLES As a result of many years of research, the present inventor has focused on Senso, which has been conventionally used as a home remedy or a herbal medicine.
Senso is a collection of dried secretions of the venom glands of the toad or related species, dried, and used as a cardiotonic agent, local anesthetic and as a therapeutic agent for skin tumors.

【0008】[0008]

【化1】 [Chemical 1]

【0009】[0009]

【化2】 [Chemical 2]

【0010】このセンソから14β−ヒドロキシ−5β
−ブファジエノリドで示される一般式(I)および14
β,15β−エポキシ−5β−ブファジエノリドで示さ
れる一般式(II)のブファジエノリドの構造式をもった化
合物(ブファリン、シノブファギンおよびこれらの誘導
体)の強心性ステロイドをM.Komatsu and S.Okano(分
析化学,15, 1115頁(1966))の方法によ
り抽出精製した。この構造式をもった化合物が白血病
(癌)細胞の分化(脱癌)を促す分化誘導能を有する新
たな化合物であること(すなわちブファジエノリド型分
化誘導剤)を知見した(L.Zhang, K.Nakaya, T.Yoshid
a, and Y.Kuroiwa(Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.,1
78, 686頁(1991))。
From this senso, 14β-hydroxy-5β
-The general formula (I) and 14 represented by bufadienolide
M. Komatsu and S. Okano (analytical chemistry) of cardiotonic steroids of compounds having the structural formula of bufadienolide of general formula (II) represented by β, 15β-epoxy-5β-bufadienolide (bufaline, cinobufagin and their derivatives) , 15, 1115 (1966)). It was discovered that a compound having this structural formula is a new compound having a differentiation-inducing ability to promote differentiation (decanceration) of leukemia (cancer) cells (that is, a bufadienolide-type differentiation inducer) (L. Zhang, K. Nakaya, T. Yoshid
a, and Y. Kuroiwa (Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 1
78, 686 (1991)).

【0011】特にブファリンは、発生段階の異なる4種
のヒトの骨髄性白血病細胞に対して共通して分化誘導能
を有し、抗腫瘍剤として用い得る。ブファリンはまた、
白血病細胞以外の種々のヒト由来腫瘍細胞に対しても強
力な細胞毒性を示し、たとえばヒトメラノーマMEWO
細胞に対しても10nMの濃度で50パーセント致死作
用を有し、ヒト大腸癌HCT−116細胞に対しても2
00nMで50パーセント致死作用を有することも知見
した。
In particular, bufarin has a common differentiation-inducing ability for four human myeloid leukemia cells at different developmental stages, and can be used as an antitumor agent. Bufarin is also
It also shows strong cytotoxicity against various human-derived tumor cells other than leukemia cells. For example, human melanoma MEWO
It also has a 50% lethal effect on cells at a concentration of 10 nM, and 2 even on human colon cancer HCT-116 cells.
It was also found to have 50 percent lethality at 00 nM.

【0012】本発明の一般式(I)で示されるブファリン
は、常法に従い、例えば経口剤または注射剤、軟膏、座
剤等の形に製剤化されて投与され得る。経口投与に好ま
しい剤型としては、例えば錠剤、カプセル剤、顆粒剤お
よび液剤を挙げることができる。更にブファリンは、既
知の分化誘導剤である1α,25−ジヒドロキシビタミ
ンD3、r−TNFαあるいはインターフェロン等と相
加ないし相乗的な分化誘導作用を示し(中谷一泰、張麗
莎、亀井英夫、吉田武美、黒岩幸雄(第50回日本癌学
会総会講演要旨集および発表))、より有効な治療効果
を期待することができる。
The bufarin represented by the general formula (I) of the present invention can be administered by formulating it in the form of, for example, an oral preparation or an injection, an ointment, a suppository, etc. according to a conventional method. Preferred dosage forms for oral administration include tablets, capsules, granules and solutions. Furthermore, bufarin shows an additive or synergistic differentiation-inducing action with known differentiation inducers 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 , r-TNFα, interferon, etc. (Kazuyasu Nakatani, Rei Zhang, Hideo Kamei, Takemi Yoshida). , Yukio Kuroiwa (Abstracts and Presentations at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Society), and more effective therapeutic effects can be expected.

【0013】本発明の一般式(I)および(II)で示される
ブファリンおよびシノブファギン更にこれらの誘導体の
薬理作用を具体的な試験例によって説明する。ここに誘
導体は、生体内への吸収、持続性、増強性等を目的とし
て決定されるものである。
The pharmacological action of bufarin and cinobufagin represented by the general formulas (I) and (II) of the present invention, and the pharmacological action of these derivatives will be described with reference to specific test examples. Here, the derivative is determined for the purpose of absorption in the living body, persistence, enhancement, and the like.

【0014】[0014]

【試験例1】ヒト骨髄性白血病細胞K562に対する本
発明化合物の細胞毒性(生細胞率)およびニトロブルー
テトラゾリウム(NBT)還元能によって、本発明化合
物の癌細胞の分化誘導活性の判定試験を行なった。この
測定は、K.Tanakaら(CancerRes., 42,5152(1
982))記載の方法によった。
Test Example 1 A test for determining the cancer cell differentiation-inducing activity of the compound of the present invention was carried out based on the cytotoxicity (viable cell rate) and the nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reducing ability of the compound of the present invention on human myeloid leukemia cell K562. .. This measurement is performed by K. Tanaka et al. (Cancer Res., 42, 5152 (1
982)).

【0015】本発明化合物とK562白血病細胞(1×
105cells/ml)とのインキュベーションは4日
間とし、培地としてRPMI1640+10パーセント
牛胎児血清(56°C、30分間熱処理を行なって不活
性化した)を用い、5パーセント二酸化炭素/95パー
セント空気の気相比で培養した。この培地に本発明化合
物をエタノールに溶解し、培養液中のエタノールの濃度
が0.1パーセントになるように調製して添加した。
The compound of the present invention and K562 leukemia cells (1 ×
(10 5 cells / ml) for 4 days, and RPMI1640 + 10% fetal bovine serum (inactivated by heat treatment at 56 ° C. for 30 minutes) was used as a medium and 5% carbon dioxide / 95% air. Cultured in phase ratio. The compound of the present invention was dissolved in ethanol in this medium, and the concentration of ethanol in the culture solution was adjusted to 0.1% and added.

【0016】図1はK562細胞の分化に対する種々の
濃度のブファリンの影響を示すものである。K562細
胞は種々の濃度の存在下で、37°Cで4日間培養され
た。分化誘導活性はNBTを還元する能力で測り、生き
ている細胞の割合はトリパンブルー染色で調べた。各点
は3回の測定の平均値±標準偏差である。
FIG. 1 shows the effect of various concentrations of bufarin on the differentiation of K562 cells. K562 cells were cultured for 4 days at 37 ° C in the presence of various concentrations. The differentiation-inducing activity was measured by the ability to reduce NBT, and the ratio of living cells was examined by trypan blue staining. Each point is the average value ± standard deviation of three measurements.

【0017】図1によれば、K562細胞を2.5から
100nMのブファリンとインキュベーションするとN
BT還元能を有する細胞へと分化した。10nMのブフ
ァリンは細胞毒性を示すことなく約80パーセントのK
562細胞をNBT還元能を有する細胞へと分化させ
た。50nMから100nMのブファリンではK562
細胞の生存率が用量依存的に低下し、残存細胞のほとん
どはNBT還元能を有していた。
According to FIG. 1, incubation of K562 cells with 2.5 to 100 nM bufarin resulted in N
Differentiated into cells having BT reducing ability. 10 nM bufarin gives about 80 percent K without cytotoxicity
The 562 cells were differentiated into cells having NBT reducing ability. K562 at 50 nM to 100 nM bufarin
The cell viability decreased in a dose-dependent manner, and most of the remaining cells had NBT reducing ability.

【0018】ブファリンにより分化誘導された細胞を形
態学的および生化学的に調べたところ顆粒球様細胞に分
化していることが示された。次にブファリン、シノブフ
ァギンおよび他の強心性ステロイドを添加すると顆粒球
様細胞への分化が形態学的にも観察された。これら使用
した強心性ステロイドのうち、ブファリンの分化誘導作
用は特に強力であった。
The cells differentiated by bufarin were examined morphologically and biochemically to show that they were differentiated into granulocyte-like cells. Subsequent addition of bufarin, cinobufagin and other cardiotonic steroids also morphologically observed differentiation into granulocyte-like cells. Among these cardiotonic steroids used, the differentiation-inducing action of bufarin was particularly strong.

【0019】その試験結果を表1、表2に要約して示
す。
The test results are summarized in Tables 1 and 2.

【0020】[0020]

【表1】 [Table 1]

【0021】[0021]

【表2】 [Table 2]

【0022】[0022]

【試験例2】試験例1の結果、ブファリンのK562白
血病細胞に対する分化誘導活性が最も強力であったの
で、発生段階の異なる他の3種の白血病細胞に対する効
果を検討した結果を表3に要約して示す。試験例1と同
様な方法で、HL60細胞は5nMブファリン、ML1
およびU937細胞は10nMのブファリンと4日間イ
ンキュベートすると、K562細胞の場合と同様に、H
L60、ML1およびU937の各白血病細胞をいずれ
もNBT還元能を有し、かつ形態学的には単球ないしマ
クロファージ様細胞へと分化誘導(脱癌)した。
[Test Example 2] As a result of Test Example 1, since the differentiation-inducing activity of bufarin against K562 leukemia cells was the strongest, the results of examining the effects on 3 other leukemia cells at different developmental stages are summarized in Table 3. And show it. In the same manner as in Test Example 1, HL60 cells contained 5 nM bufarin and ML1.
And U937 cells were incubated with 10 nM bufarin for 4 days, and as with K562 cells, H
Each of the L60, ML1 and U937 leukemia cells had an NBT reducing ability, and morphologically induced differentiation into monocytes or macrophage-like cells (decanceration).

【0023】[0023]

【表3】 [Table 3]

【0024】[0024]

【発明の効果】本発明のブファジエノリド型分化誘導剤
は白血病(癌)細胞の分化誘導活性(脱癌作用)が強
く、しかも種々の白血病(癌)細胞に対し共通して分化
誘導活性を示し、従来知られている分化誘導剤とも相加
ないし相乗作用を示すことから、優れた癌化学療法剤と
しての用途が期待できる。
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The bufadienolide type differentiation inducer of the present invention has a strong leukemia (cancer) cell differentiation-inducing activity (carcinogenic effect), and exhibits a differentiation-inducing activity common to various leukemia (cancer) cells. Since it exhibits an additive or synergistic action with a conventionally known differentiation inducer, it can be expected to be used as an excellent cancer chemotherapeutic agent.

【図面の簡単な説明】[Brief description of drawings]

【図1】K562細胞の分化に対する種々の濃度のブフ
ァリンの影響を示す図である。
FIG. 1 shows the effect of various concentrations of bufarin on the differentiation of K562 cells.

───────────────────────────────────────────────────── フロントページの続き (72)発明者 吉田 武美 東京都品川区旗の台1丁目5番8号学校法 人昭和大学内 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued Front Page (72) Inventor Takemi Yoshida 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo School Hojin Showa University

Claims (2)

【特許請求の範囲】[Claims] 【請求項1】 ブファジェノリド構造式をもった化合物
が細胞の分化誘導能を有していることを特徴とするブフ
ァジェノリド型分化誘導剤。
1. A bufagenolide-type differentiation inducer, wherein a compound having a bufagenolide structural formula has a cell differentiation-inducing ability.
【請求項2】 請求項1において、細胞が各種白血病細
胞であることを特徴とするブファジェノリド型分化誘導
剤。
2. The bufagenolide type differentiation inducer according to claim 1, wherein the cells are various leukemia cells.
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