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- Title
In silico prediction and in vitro and in vivo validation of acaricide fluazuron as a potential inhibitor of FGFR3 and a candidate anticancer drug for bladder carcinoma.
- Authors
Ke, Kunbin; Li, Hongjian; Yao, Hong; Shi, Xi ‐ Nan; Dong, Chao; Zhu, Ying; Liu, Xu; Li, Ling; Leung, Kwong ‐ Sak; Wong, Man ‐ Hon; Liu, Xiao ‐ Dong; Kung, Hsiang ‐ fu; Lin, Marie Chia ‐ mi
- Abstract
Bladder carcinoma ( BC) is the ninth most common cause of cancer worldwide. Surgical resection and conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy will ultimately fail due to tumor recurrence and resistance. Thus, the development of novel treatment is urgently needed. Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 ( FGFR3) is an important and well-established target for BC treatment. In this study, we utilized the free and open-source protein-ligand docking software idock to prospectively identify potential inhibitors of FGFR3 from 3,167 worldwide approved small-molecule drugs using a repositioning strategy. Six high-scoring compounds were purchased and tested in vitro. Among them, the acaricide drug fluazuron exhibited the highest antiproliferative effect in human BC cell lines RT112 and RT4. We further demonstrated that fluazuron treatment significantly increased the percentage of apoptosis cells, and decreased the phosphorylation level of FGFR3 and its downstream proteins FRS2-α, AKT, and ERK. We also investigated the anticancer effect of fluazuron in vivo in BALB/C nude mice subcutaneously xenografted with RT112 cells. Our results showed that oral treatment with fluazuron (80 mg/kg) significantly inhibited tumor growth. These results suggested for the first time that fluazuron is a potential inhibitor of FGFR3 and a candidate anticancer drug for the treatment of BC.
- Subjects
BLADDER cancer treatment; CANCER treatment; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of acaricides; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; FIBROBLAST growth factor receptors
- Publication
Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 2017, Vol 89, Issue 4, p505
- ISSN
1747-0277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cbdd.12872