Abstract
Anthracyclines, e.g., doxorubicin (DOX), and anthracenediones, e.g., mitoxantrone (MTX), are drugs used in the chemotherapy of several cancer types, including solid and non-solid malignancies such as breast cancer, leukemia, lymphomas, and sarcomas. Although they are effective in tumor therapy, treatment with these two drugs may lead to side effects such as arrhythmia and heart failure. At the same clinically equivalent dose, MTX causes slightly reduced cardiotoxicity compared with DOX. These drugs interact with iron to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), target topoisomerase 2 (Top2), and impair mitochondria. These are some of the mechanisms through which these drugs induce late cardiomyopathy. In this review, we compare the cardiotoxicities of these two chemotherapeutic drugs, DOX and MTX. As described here, even though they share similarities in their modes of toxicant action, DOX and MTX seem to differ in a key aspect. DOX is a more redox-interfering drug, while MTX induces energy imbalance. In addition, DOX toxicity can be explained by underlying mechanisms that include targeting of Top2 beta, mitochondrial impairment, and increases in ROS generation. These modes of action have not yet been demonstrated for MTX, and this knowledge gap needs to be filled.
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Introduction
Anthracyclines such as doxorubicin (DOX), epirubicin, and daunorubicin are important chemotherapeutic agents used in the treatment of several types of cancer, including solid and non-solid malignancies such as breast cancer, leukemia, lymphomas, and sarcomas. Daunorubicin was the first anthracycline isolated in the 1960s. It was initially obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces peucetius (Di Marco et al. 1964). There are two hypotheses explaining how anthracyclines kill cancer cells. They include targeting of DNA topoisomerases (Vejpongsa and Yeh 2014a) and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) through interaction of anthracyclines with iron (Stěrba et al. 2013). Anthracyclines that are widely used in several chemotherapeutic regimens increased the survival rates for pediatric cancer in excess of 75 % (Sant et al. 2009). Although they are effective in cancer treatment, side effects such as arrhythmia and heart failure were reported for anthracyclines (Tan et al. 1967; Von Hoff et al. 1977). In a survey of 1807 cancer survivors who had been treated with anthracyclines and followed for 7 years, 33 % died of heart disease, and 51 % died of cancer (Ning et al. 2012). Anthracycline treatment is the primary cause of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity (Vejpongsa and Yeh 2014b). It is estimated that about 26 % of patients will develop DOX-related congestive heart failure at a cumulative conventional DOX dose of 550 mg/m2 (Senkus and Jassem 2011).
The mechanisms by which anthracyclines induce cardiac toxicity are not fully understood. Energy imbalance induced by mitochondrial dysfunction (Green and Leeuwenburgh 2002) and ROS generation (Iarussi et al. 2001; Neilan et al. 2007; Wallace 2003) are among possible modes of action. Recently, Vejpongsa and Yeh (2014a) discussed the role of DNA topoisomerase 2β (Top2β) in DOX-mediated cardiotoxicity. Mitochondrial topoisomerase 1 (mtTop1) also appears to be a possible target of anthracycline-induced cardiac cell death (Khiati et al. 2014).
To reduce the anthracycline-related cardiotoxicity while maintaining the desired antineoplastic activity, anthracenedione compounds were developed, including the chemotherapeutic agents mitoxantrone (MTX), ametantrone, and pixantrone (Cheng and Zee-Cheng 1983; De Isabella et al. 1995). MTX inhibits both DNA replication and DNA-dependent RNA synthesis. It also intercalates into DNA, thereby decreasing the protein synthesis and cell proliferation (Faulds et al. 1991). Owing to its small size, MTX can easily cross the blood–brain barrier and interact with cells in the central nervous system; it also has immunosuppressant activity. Owing to these properties, MTX has also been used against neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS) (Fenu et al. 2015; Millefiorini et al. 1997).
Rossato et al. (2013a, b, 2014) demonstrated the relation between MTX-induced cardiotoxicity and mitochondrial impairment in in vitro (H9c2 cardiomyoblasts) and in vivo (male Wistar rats) studies. These studies pointed to the electron transport chain (ETC) as the endpoint of toxicity induced by MTX and its metabolites and revealed the importance of cumulative exposure. Although experimental (Rossato et al. 2013a, 2014) and clinical studies (Dores-Sousa et al. 2015; Joyce et al. 2013) highlighted the MTX-induced cardiac toxicity, little is known about the mechanisms involved in this process and whether anthracenediones induce the cardiac damage via a mechanism similar to that of anthracyclines. In this review, we try to elucidate the mechanisms of DOX- and MTX-induced cardiotoxicity.
ROS generation, iron accumulation, and mitochondrial dysfunction
Mitochondrial respiration accounts for about 90 % of cellular oxygen consumption, and therefore, the ETC in mitochondria is mainly responsible for physiological ROS production (Papa 1996). It is well known that under physiological conditions, 1–5 % of the oxygen consumed by mitochondria is converted to ROS (Halliwell 2009; Halliwell and Gutteridge 1984).
ETC complexes I, III, and IV in the mitochondrial membrane guide electrons through reactions to create the proton motive force that drives the ATP synthesis by complex V (ATP synthase) (Fig. 1). It is plausible to believe that the superoxide anion radical (O ∙−2 ) is derived from intermediates of the normal catalytic cycles of complexes I and III (Dröse and Brandt 2012). There are three well-described sites where superoxide anion radicals are generated, the ubiquinone-binding sites in complexes I and III and the flavin prosthetic group in complex I. In addition, Wosniak et al. (2009) demonstrated the existence of a crosstalk between mitochondria and NADPH oxidases. Mitochondrial ROS activate O ∙−2 and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production by NADPH oxidases, which, in turn, stimulate mitochondrial ROS formation. The O ∙−2 generation by the respiratory chain is a highly regulated process in which ROS can function both adversely and beneficially (Figueira et al. 2013). Mitochondrial ROS are demonstrated to take part in cellular signaling pathways as messenger molecules (Murphy et al. 2011). The formation of ROS should be a highly controlled process since their excess generation can be extremely harmful to the cell. The majority of the O ∙−2 formed inside mitochondria does not pass through the membranes, indicating that the damage may be largely contained within the mitochondria (Giulivi et al. 1995).
The high level of energy required by the heart to keep us alive comes at a cost, such as the generation of large amounts of oxygen and nitrogen metabolites (Costa et al. 2011). To meet the demand for ATP synthesis via oxidative metabolism, cardiac myocytes have the highest volume density of mitochondria and produce ROS through ETC (Tsutsui et al. 2008). In addition, cardiac tissue has less antioxidant enzymes compared with liver and kidney tissues (Halliwell and Gutteridge 1984). Therefore, oxidative stress, which is known to cause a disturbance in the pro-oxidant/antioxidant balance, is induced in response to the decreased levels of antioxidant enzymes, including copper–zinc and manganese superoxide dismutases (SODs), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase, and the increased production of ROS and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) or both (Costa et al. 2013; Sies 1997). Mitochondria also function as the crossroads for autophagic, apoptotic, and necrotic pathways. Under mild stress conditions, autophagy is induced to degrade and recycle cytoplasmic components. With increasing stress levels, apoptosis occurs because of cytochrome c release from mitochondria. Under extreme stress, the mitochondrial permeability transition occurs in all mitochondria, and the intracellular supply of ATP is exhausted, leading to necrosis (Nishida and Otsu 2008; Zhang et al. 2009).
It is believed that the main pathway of anthracycline cardiotoxicity is the production of semiquinone metabolites during drug metabolism, which induce O ∙−2 formation (Carvalho et al. 2014). O ∙−2 is a primary radical that can generate other ROS, such as H2O2 and the hydroxyl radical (OH∙)(Ide et al. 2000). As demonstrated by Vásquez-Vivar et al. (1998), binding of DOX to the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) reductase domain resulted in O ∙−2 generation. DOX can be reduced to the semiquinone radical by nitric oxide synthases and NADPH oxidase (Fig. 2a). This semiquinone radical undergoes further transformation to the C-7 free radical, which can interact with molecular oxygen and other intracellular molecules, most notably, lipids. The electron donors NADPH and FAD/FMN are oxidized by NADPH oxidase and eNOS, respectively (Octavia et al. 2012). The influence of NADPH oxidase on DOX cardiotoxicity was confirmed in a study that correlated the development of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity with polymorphisms of the NADPH oxidase complex in patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Wojnowski et al. 2005).
MTX contains a quinone functional group in its structure (Fig. 2b). Furthermore, similar to DOX, it undergoes activation by phase I metabolic enzymes (Kharasch and Novak 1983; Mimnaugh et al. 1982). Duthie and Grant (1989) demonstrated that in human hepatoma HepG2 cells, the cytotoxic effect of MTX was not mediated by the one-electron reduction oxidative stress mechanism. In addition, inhibition of antioxidant enzymes such as CAT and glutathione reductase did not affect the MXT-induced cell viability loss, suggesting that ROS are not involved in the process (Duthie and Grant 1989).
Unlike DOX, MTX is resistant to reductive enzymatic activation but is subject to oxidative enzymatic action (Basra et al. 1985; Kharasch and Novak 1983). MTX is oxidized by a cytochrome P450-mediated reaction generating quinone or quinonediimine intermediates with intracellular nucleophilic components in HepG2 and MCF-7 cells (Duthie and Grant 1989; Li et al. 1995; Mewes et al. 1993). MTX is also oxidized at a high H2O2 concentration by human myeloperoxidase (Panousis et al. 1994) (Fig. 2b). However, unlike DOX, MTX has a weaker capacity to enter in futile redox cycling (Costa et al. 2013). In fact, both have the ability to block the ETC, while MTX has demonstrated a greater capacity to induce ATP depletion (Cini-Neri and Neri 1986). Rossato et al. (2013b) observed mild oxidative stress after MTX treatment in rat cardiomyoblasts (H9c2) and suggested that the ROS increase as a consequence of the redox cycle is secondary to the energy imbalance, a more dramatic and earlier event. The same research group observed that the ETC complex activities were affected at 2- and 48-day time points after MTX treatment cycles in rats. As a consequence, the ATP generation in heart mitochondria decreased (Rossato et al. 2014). These results are in agreement with those obtained in rats treated with daunorubicin, which demonstrated an increase in complex IV and V protein expression and a decrease in complex I activity and expression (Stěrba et al. 2011).
Anthracyclines can also form complexes with iron, producing ROS via a redox cycle (Link et al. 1996). Heart cell mitochondria were previously identified as the major site of iron–anthracycline interaction. In isolated rat cardiomyocytes, DOX was concentrated in mitochondria, inducing increases in mitochondrial iron and cellular ROS levels (Link et al. 1996). According to Ichikawa et al. (2014), overexpression of ABCB8, a mitochondrial iron-export protein, in vivo and in vitro protected against DOX-induced cardiomyopathy and reduced the DOX-induced accumulation of free iron and ROS in mitochondria. At the mitochondrial level, DOX significantly reduced the mRNA and protein levels of ABCB8 and decreased or did not affect the levels of the import protein, mitoferrin 2, which regulates mitochondrial iron homeostasis both in vitro and in vivo (Ichikawa et al. 2014) (Fig. 3a).
Myocardial oxidative damage caused by iron-mediated ROS formation has been suggested as a potential mechanism; however, this hypothesis has been challenged by reports showing that several iron chelators failed to reverse cardiotoxic effects of DOX (Miranda et al. 2003; Panjrath et al. 2007; Rao et al. 2011; Šimůnek et al. 2009).
As demonstrated by Cavalcante et al. (2013), MTX has a high affinity for Fe+3 and can be degraded by the Fenton reaction. Herman et al. (1997) showed that MTX could form a 2:1 complex with Fe+3. The same study reported that in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) treated with DOX (1 mg/kg) or MTX (0.5 mg/kg), no significant difference was observed in the severity of the myocardium lesions induced by these drugs. However, the mitochondrial alterations induced by MTX in these animals were much more severe than those induced by DOX (Herman et al. 1997). Congestive heart failure in patients with MS is considered a dose-dependent and delayed complication of MTX treatment at a dose level above the cumulative dose of 100 mg/m2, especially in patients with additional cardiac risk factors. However, myocardial dysfunction could occur at concentrations below 100 mg/m2, challenging this security threshold (Cotte et al. 2009). The authors further suggested that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the ABCB1 gene could confer different susceptibility patterns to MTX-induced cardiotoxicity (Cotte et al. 2009). It is well known that differences in P-glycoprotein (encoded by ABCB1) confer different drug resistance patterns to cancer cells. In vitro cytotoxicity studies demonstrated that leukemic cells from patients carrying the polymorphisms 1236T/T and 2677T/T in the ABCB1 gene were significantly more susceptible to MTX than those with other genotypes (Gréen et al. 2012). P-glycoprotein is also involved in mitochondrial iron transport (Richardson and Ponka 1997), and therefore, its involvement in the MTX-mediated cardiotoxicity cannot be ruled out (Fig. 3b).
Zhao et al. (2014) recently demonstrated that several mitochondrial proteins in mice, including those associated with the citric acid cycle and ETC, formed an adduct with 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE), which is a toxic sub-product of lipid peroxidation, decreasing enzymatic activity of mitochondrial proteins. In addition, treatment with Mn+3 meso-tetrakis (N-n-butoxyethylpyridinium-2-yl)porphyrin, a SOD mimic, abrogated (or protected against) the DOX-induced HNE–protein adduct formation. The authors concluded that the free radical-mediated alteration of energy metabolism is an important mechanism of DOX-induced cardiac injury and suggested that metabolic intervention may represent a novel approach to prevent cardiac injury after chemotherapy (Zhao et al. 2014). However, antioxidant supplementation had a limited protective effect against the DOX-induced cardiotoxicity in both animals and human clinical studies (Ferreira et al. 2008; Šimůnek et al. 2009). Dexrazoxane (ICRF-187) decreased mitochondrial iron levels and reversed the DOX-induced cardiac damage. It is considered one of the most effective derivatives used clinically to prevent the anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy. Co-administration of dexrazoxane with an anthracycline has been shown to improve the survival and to minimize the cardiac damage in a variety of animal models (Herman et al. 1988). Other iron chelators such as deferoxamine (DFO) and defarasirox have been investigated in vitro and in vivo, with variable findings. However, none of these compounds, despite being stronger chelators and/or antioxidants, have surpassed or even matched the effectiveness of dexrazoxane against chronic anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity (Hasinoff et al. 2003; Stěrba et al. 2013). The failure of DFO to chelate mitochondrial iron is consistent with its poor mitochondrial permeability (Elihu et al. 1998; Ichikawa et al. 2014). These findings raise questions regarding how dexrazoxane prevents anthracycline cardiotoxicity, whether this is done through iron chelation only, and whether dexrazoxane can prevent the MTX-induced cardiotoxicity.
Shipp et al. (1993a, b) showed that dexrazoxane significantly reduced the high-dose MTX lethality in mice, facilitating the clinical use of dexrazoxane. The mechanism of cardioprotection postulated by the authors is related to iron chelation because dexrazoxane did not alter the toxicity of the non-chelating MTX analog ametantrone (Shipp et al. 1993a, b). As demonstrated by Herman et al. (2001), pretreatment with dexrazoxane attenuated the severity of MTX-induced myocardial damage in SHR. Furthermore, dexrazoxane augmented the therapeutic efficacy of MTX in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (Weilbach et al. 2004). In this regard, more experimental and clinical studies evaluating the efficacy of co-administration of MTX and dexrazoxane for cancer and neurological disorders are needed to determine whether this combination can improve the symptoms while reducing cardiotoxicity.
Topoisomerase inhibition
DNA topoisomerases are a class of enzymes involved in the topological aspects of DNA replication, transcription, recombination, and chromatin remodeling. These enzymes function by introducing temporary single- or double-strand breaks (DSBs) in the DNA (Champoux 2001). DNA strand breaks are induced by transesterification reactions using the active site tyrosine as a nucleophile that attacks the DNA phosphodiester backbone (Pommier 2013). Human cells have genes encoding six Tops (Top1, mtTop1, Top2α, Top2β, Top3α, and Top3β), whereas bacteria express four Tops (Top I, Top III, gyrase, and Top IV). Quinolone antimicrobial drugs such as norfloxacin, levofloxacin, and gemifloxacin are DNA gyrase and Top IV inhibitors, whereas DOX, MTX, etoposide, and dexrazoxane are Top2α and Top2β inhibitors. This specificity is important for the therapeutic applications of these molecules (Pommier 2013; Pommier et al. 2010). Although development of new molecules for cancer therapy that target Top1 has received increased attention (Pommier 2013), in this review, we focus on Top2α and Top2β since these enzymes are the targets of DOX and MTX.
Top2α and Top2β are nearly 70 % identical in their amino acid sequences but are encoded in humans by genes located on different chromosomes. Top2α is encoded by a gene on chromosome 17, and Top2β is encoded by that on chromosome 3 (Austin et al. 1993).
The mechanism of action of Top inhibitors, which prevent the binding of DNA and the enzyme, revealed another new paradigm of drug action, which is the enzyme poisoning rather than catalytic inhibition (Pommier 2013). DOX binds both DNA and Top2 to form a ternary Top2–DOX–DNA cleavage complex, which triggers the cell death (Capranico and Zunino 1992).Yi et al. (2007) demonstrated that mouse embryonic fibroblasts from Top2β-knockout embryos were resistant to DOX-induced cell death. It has recently been demonstrated that the Top2β enzyme, which is the only Top enzyme expressed in myocytes, is the key molecular mediator in the anthracycline-associated cardiotoxicity (Vejpongsa and Yeh 2014a). Top2 poisons, i.e., drugs that form ternary complexes, such as DOX and MTX, induce γ-H2AX DNA damage signal foci in various cell types, demonstrating the DNA strand break formation (Rogakou et al. 1998; Saffi et al. 2010). Following the generation of a DNA DSB, phosphoinositide 3-like kinases, e.g., ATM, ATR, and DNA-dependent protein kinase, are activated and phosphorylate the Ser139 of histone H2AX (Park et al. 2003). A study conducted by Zhang et al. (2012) that compared Top2β-knockout (Top2βΔ/Δ) mice and Top2β+/+ mice demonstrated that the Top2β+/+ animals treated with DOX showed high levels of expression of genes coding proteins involved in an apoptosis pathway, such as Apaf1, Bax, Fas, and Trp53inp1, a p53-inducible gene, which was 200-fold upregulated. Activation of the DNA damage response in the hearts of the Top2β+/+ mice treated with DOX was confirmed by immunostaining of γ-H2AX, whose intensity was 60 % lower in the Top2βΔ/Δ mice. In addition, the levels of transcripts encoding NADH dehydrogenase 1α subcomplex 3 (NDUFA3), succinate dehydrogenase complex II, subunit A (SDHA), and ATP synthase subunit α (ATP5A1) markedly decreased in the DOX-treated Top2β+/+ cardiomyocytes compared with their levels in the DOX-treated Top2βΔ/Δ cardiomyocytes. This study highlighted the role of Top2β in the DOX-mediated cell death and indicated that the cell death might be due to DNA damage with consequent loss of mitochondrial function (Zhang et al. 2012).
Oxidation of nitrogen bases (8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of rat hearts, as well as a deletion of about 4 kb in mtDNA of mice hearts, has been detected after subchronic and chronic exposure to DOX (Adachi et al. 1993; Serrano et al. 1999). Besides this, acute DOX exposure was also found to reduce mtDNA synthesis in rat cardiac tissue (Hixon 1981). In rats treated with repeated intravenous injections of a low dose (0.8 mg/kg) of DOX, heart tissue had low activity of cytochrome c oxidase and high activity of citrate synthase. Additionally, expression of respiratory chain subunits encoded by mtDNA decreased, while that nuclear-encoded respiratory chain subunits was preserved (Lebrecht and Walker 2007). Furthermore, Khiati et al. (2014) recently demonstrated that genetic inactivation of mtTop1 in mice led to a reduced mtDNA copy number and increased mtDNA damage in heart tissue following DOX treatment. The mice showed a decrease in O2 consumption because of the mitochondrial defect and an increase in ROS production, as well as enhanced heart muscle damage. The authors concluded that mtTop1, which is conserved across the vertebrates, is critical for cardiac tolerance to DOX and for adaptive responses to cardiotoxicity. They also suggested the potential use of mtTop1 SNP testing to investigate the patient susceptibility to DOX (Khiati et al. 2014). New insights have challenged the concept that DOX cardiotoxicity is a sum of somewhat independent events, indicating that they are all consequences of the interaction among DOX–Top2–DNA. Dexrazoxane, an iron chelator, forms an intricate complex with the ATPase domain of human Top2α and Top2β and prevents anthracyclines from binding to Top2 (Roca and Wang 1994). Therefore, preventing anthracyclines from binding to the Top2–DNA complex might be the mechanism by which dexrazoxane prevents the anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity (Yi et al. 2007). Consequently, blocking and degrading Top2β should also be considered useful clinical strategies to prevent the anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity, as recently reported by (Vejpongsa and Yeh 2013).
In the case of MTX, some studies addressed its interaction with Top2β. Wu et al. (2013) determined the high-resolution crystal structures of Top2β cleavage complexes stabilized by MTX. Huang and Lin (2014) demonstrated that this drug formed a weak cleavage complex with Top2β as compared with that formed with Top2α. Top2β downregulation leads to MTX resistance in a leukemia cell line (Hermanson et al. 2013). In another study, an l-methionine-conjugated MTX (MTX-MET) molecule (WRC-213) displayed good cytotoxic potential with less cardiotoxicity compared with that of MTX. WRC-213 induces the comet-tail formation in DNA of fewer cells (indicating less genotoxicity), as well as lower cytotoxicity than MTX in H9c2 cells. The authors suggested that the population-doubling time of H9c2, which is about twofold lower than that of cancer cells, is a determining factor of the less WRC-213 toxicity in cardiac cells (Hsiao et al. 2008). If this hypothesis, however, was true, MTX should have shown less cardiotoxicity as well, which was not observed. Furthermore, in another study from the same research group, 1,4-bis-L/l-methionine-conjugated MTX-induced DNA breaks, cancer cell apoptosis, and revealed antitumor activities comparable to those of MTX. At the same time, the conjugated drug showed more favorable drug resistance profiles and a higher maximum tolerated dose in mice, indicating less toxicity (Lee et al. 2012).
To test the above hypothesis, molecular docking experiments were performed to analyze the interaction mode of selected compounds with the receptor complex Top2β–DNA and MTX or MTX-MET (WRC-213), as well as with Top2α–DNA and MTX or MTX-MET (WRC-213), using the crystal structures of both Top enzymes. The receptor and ligand structures were prepared using AutoDock Tools 1.5.2, while docking simulations were performed with AutoDock4.2 (Morris et al. 2009), granting full flexibility to the ligands. The Lamarckian genetic algorithm was used for the docking with 25 runs, and the remaining parameters were set to their default values. The molecular interaction study of the ligands with the Top enzymes revealed that the lower cardiotoxicity of WRC-213 may result from a change in the binding energy that would lead to a lower affinity to Top2β (ΔG = −3.32 kcal/mol) compared with that of MTX (ΔG = −7.82 kcal/mol). This change in the binding energy is not observed for the Top2α enzyme (Fig. 4). The above results could be partially explained by non-bonded interactions achieved using LIGPLOT (Wallace et al. 1995), which showed that the Top2α–DNA and MTX complex had five hydrogen bonds with DNA bases (DG4, DT12, and DG13) and hydrophobic contacts with Met762 and Ser763. In contrast, the intermolecular interactions of Top2α–DNA and MTX-MET showed six hydrogen bonds and three hydrophobic contacts. The same analysis was performed with Top2β–DNA and MTX and revealed four hydrogen bonds and five hydrophobic contacts versus eight hydrogen bonds and six hydrophobic contacts between Top2β–DNA and MTX-MET. In the case of Top2α–DNA, it seems that the affinity is linked to the number of hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic contacts (Top2α–DNA–MTX, ΔG = −3.53 kcal/mol and Top2α–DNA–MTX-MET, ΔG = −5.88 kcal/mol); however, the same conclusion could not be made for Top2β–DNA. Nevertheless, the affinity and specificity between a ligand and its protein targets depend on directional hydrogen bonds, more specifically, on the distance and angle between the hydrogen donor and acceptor (Caceres et al. 2008; Herman 1997; Morris et al. 2009). The angle could cause an energetic difference in terms of the strength of a hydrogen bond, which can explain the higher affinity between Top2α–DNA and MTX-MET compared with that between Top2α–DNA and MTX.
It is really a hard task to determine atomic features responsible for selectivity and affinity. Molecular dynamics studies are required in order to unveil and determine the kind of intermolecular forces ruling the selectivity and affinity of MTX and MTX-MET for Top2α–DNA and Top2β–DNA.
Inhibition/overactivation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
Regarding similarities and differences in the mechanisms of action of DOX and MTX, although their clinical aspects are partially the same, the underlying mechanisms seem to differ. Indeed, the MTX-induced cardiotoxicity may have its origin in MTX interference with cardiac energetic metabolism instead of oxidative stress (Alderton et al. 1992; Bachmann et al. 1987; Rossato et al. 2013b). Evidence suggests that the ROS and RNS generated in cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells can induce oxidative DNA damage and consequent activation of the nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1), the most abundant isoform of the PARP enzyme family (Pacher and Szabó 2007). Energy depletion can be triggered by activating PARP1 since this enzyme consumes NAD+ as its substrate (Satoh and Lindahl 1992).
Poly-ADP-ribosylation, a posttranslational modification involved, among other things, in transcription, DNA repair, and cell death, is carried out by a superfamily of 17 PARPs (Dantzer and Santoro 2013). These polymerases synthesize poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) from NAD+, releasing nicotinamide. The PAR polymer binds to Glu, Asp, and Lys residues in nuclear proteins, including PARP itself, and creates a transitional nucleophilic environment. By virtue of the high negative charge of PAR polymers, marked auto-PARylation of PARP1 and PARP2 leads to their dissociation from DNA, which is required for DNA repair completion (Satoh and Lindahl 1992). The PARP1 enzyme is activated by DNA breaks and facilitates their repair by loosening chromatin and recruiting repair proteins to the site of injury. Poly-ADP-ribosylation modulates protein functions by regulating either enzymatic activities or macromolecular interactions with other proteins, DNA, or RNA. On the other hand, PAR molecules can also regulate protein activity and function through non-covalent binding that may serve to attract protein targets (Hakmé et al. 2008).
PARP is one of the first proteins that recognize injuries in DNA and is therefore in an ideal position to directly recruit the DNA base excision repair (BER) machinery to the site of DNA damage in living cells (Lindahl et al. 1995). Indeed, this interaction has been supported by the identification of a BER complex comprising PARP1, X-ray repair cross-complementing protein 1 (XRCC1), DNA ligase III, and DNA polymerase β (Caldecott et al. 1996; Kubota et al. 1996; Masson et al. 1998). Moreover, PARP1 has been recently identified as a partner of APE1, the main apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease responsible for the generation of apurinic/apyrimidinic sites when the BER mechanism is activated, indicating that PARP1 is able to stimulate the APE1 strand-incision activity (Prasad et al. 2015). The PAR polymer is mainly degraded by poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolases to form short polymers and monomers (Aredia and Scovassi 2014; Gagné et al. 2006). The common feature of the involvement of poly-ADP-ribosylation in different paradigms of cell death is represented by PAR, which can cause cells to die through diverse mechanisms (Bürkle and Virág 2013). In addition to catalytic inhibition, it was recently demonstrated that PARP inhibitors induce the formation of cytotoxic PARP–DNA complexes, and clinically relevant PARP inhibitors differ markedly in their potency to trap this complex. This study proposes a novel mechanism involved in the synthetic lethality and the involvement of PARP1 and PARP2, with several approaches to DNA repair, such as BER, homologous recombination (HR), and FANC proteins (Murai et al. 2012). Cancers characterized by BRCA1 and BRCA2 (proteins involved in DSB repair by HR) deficiencies have been treated using PARP inhibitors in the absence of exogenous DNA-damaging agents by targeting spontaneous DNA repair defects observed in certain tumors (Bryant et al. 2005; Farmer et al. 2005). In 2010, PARP inhibitors such as iniparib (BSI-201), olaparib (AZ2281), veliparib (ABT-888), AG014699, and INO-1001, among others, were used alone or in combination with other drugs in several clinical trials. Only two of these drugs reached phase III studies (Annunziata and O’Shaughnessy 2010). Currently, there are 161 clinical trials assessing the efficacy of PARP inhibitors alone or in combination with other drugs in cancer chemotherapy, 13 of which are in Phase III (http://clinicaltrials.gov).
In cardiomyocytes treated with DOX, the activation of poly-ADP-ribosylation can drive cells to energy insufficiency caused by NAD depletion (Pillai et al. 2005). In this case, cells die by necrosis, a more drastic mode of cell death. Infarcted rat hearts were shown to be characterized by increases in PARP activation, left ventricular mass, and the pathological score. These alterations were prevented by the administration of 3-aminobenzamide, a catalytic PARP inhibitor, demonstrating the involvement of PARP in the energy deprivation-mediated cell death (Wang et al. 2014). INO-1001, another catalytic PARP inhibitor, was able to markedly attenuate the reperfusion injury, resulting in a better recovery of biventricular and endothelial function as well as energy reserves after orthotropic pig heart transplantation, which opens great possibilities for clinical use of INO-1001 (Heger et al. 2005). However, a phase II study conducted to evaluate the safety of INO-1001 in subjects who had experienced heart attack and were to be treated with coronary angioplasty, was concluded with no results posted (http://clinicaltrials.gov). Nevertheless, rucaparib (AG014699), a PARP inhibitor tested in trials, ameliorates cardiotoxicity but does not enhance the DOX efficacy, despite improving tumor perfusion and a radiation response in mice (Ali et al. 2011). In a study conducted by Magan et al. (2012), HeLa cells treated with PJ34, a potent PARP inhibitor, showed increased Top2α promoter activity and, consequently, an increase in the Top2α protein level. The results indicated a new potential use for PARP1 inhibitors to reset cellular sensitivity to Top2 poisons by enhancing the amount of the Top2α protein present in cells and highlighted that PARP1 inhibitors have the potential to improve current chemotherapy regimes in a multifactorial manner (Magan et al. 2012). The data obtained in our laboratory demonstrated that the co-treatment with DOX or MTX and 3,4-dihydro-5-[4-(1-piperidinyl)butoxyl]-1(2H)-isoquinolinone (DPQ), a potent PARP inhibitor, diminished the H9c2 cell viability when compared with DOX or MTX treatment alone. There is evidence indicating a strong relation between PARP inhibition and an increase in DNA strand breaks in the rat cardiomyoblasts treated with DOX or MTX. Furthermore, despite the fact that PARP inhibition increased the antioxidant defense and decreased the ROS formation in the H9c2 cells treated with DOX or MTX, it was not sufficient to prevent cell death, demonstrating that ROS generation is not the main player in the cardiotoxicity induced by these drugs (to be published elsewhere).
Conclusions
To explore the potential for further use of DOX and MTX in tumor therapy, continued studies are needed to assess the means to reduce their cardiotoxicity. Identification of new drugs with potential chemotherapeutic effectiveness superior to that of DOX remains a big challenge. As described here, even though they share similarities in their modes of toxicant action, DOX and MTX seem to differ in the key aspect. DOX is a more redox-interfering drug, while MTX induces energy imbalance. In addition, DOX toxicity can be explained by the Top2 beta and mitochondrial impairment, and increases in ROS generation are the underlying mechanism of DOX toxicity. The mode of action has not yet been fully elucidated for MTX, and this knowledge gap needs to be filled. In this context, PARP is a molecule that unifies the ROS energetic metabolism and DNA repair, among other processes, and should not be overlooked since the oxidative damage and DNA strand breaks generated by Top2 inhibition both require PARP function (Fig. 5).
Abbreviations
- APE:
-
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease
- BER:
-
Base excision repair
- CAT:
-
Catalase
- DFO:
-
Deferoxamine
- DOX:
-
Doxorubicin
- DSB:
-
Double-strand break
- eNOS:
-
Endothelial nitric oxide synthase
- ETC:
-
Electron transport chain
- HNE:
-
4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal
- HR:
-
Homologous recombination
- MS:
-
Multiple sclerosis
- mtDNA:
-
Mitochondrial DNA
- mtTop:
-
Mitochondrial topoisomerase
- MTX:
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Mitoxantrone
- MTX-MET:
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l-Methionine-conjugated MTX
- PAR:
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Poly(ADP-ribose)
- PARP:
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Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
- RNS:
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Reactive nitrogen species
- ROS:
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Reactive oxygen species
- SHR:
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Spontaneously hypertensive rats
- SNP:
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Single nucleotide polymorphism
- SOD:
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Superoxide dismutase
- Top:
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Topoisomerase
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Damiani, R.M., Moura, D.J., Viau, C.M. et al. Pathways of cardiac toxicity: comparison between chemotherapeutic drugs doxorubicin and mitoxantrone. Arch Toxicol 90, 2063–2076 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-016-1759-y
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