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What are the 7 classes of anticancer agents?

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Alkylating agents
Antimetabolite and nucleoside analogs
Antitumor antibiotics
Antimitotic agents
Miscellaneous antineoplastics
Hormonal therapy
Combination therapy
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What are the different alkylating agents?

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Nitrogen mustards
Phosphoamide mustards
Nitrosoureas
Platins
Other alkylating agents
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What is the main MOA of alkylating agents?

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React with DNA, preferentially alkylating the N-7 position of guanine (most common)
Bifunctional alkylating agents product inter- or intra-strand crosslinks preventing DNA separation

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What is the MOA of nitrogen mustards?

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They activate the chloride

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What are some nitrogen mustards?

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Melphalan
Cyclophosphamide
Ifosfamide
Chlorambucil
Estramustine phosphate
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What are some other alkylating anticancer agents?

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Busulfan (Myleran)
Thiopeta
Procarbazine (Matulane)
Dacarbazine

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What is the MOA of nitrosureas?

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Urea NH is deprotonated and the negatively charged oxygen displaces chloride to give a cyclic oxazolidine, which fragments to give 2-chloroethylisocyanate and vinyl diazohydroxide, which decomposes to give electrophilic vinyl cation

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What are some nitrosureas?

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Carmustine (BiCNU)
Lomustine (CeeNU)
Streptozin (Zanosar)

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What are some platins?

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Cisplatin

Carboplatin

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What is the MOA of antimetabolites?

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They care closely related to cellular precursors and thus they prevent use or formation of normal cellular products.

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What are the MOAs of pyrimidine-based antimetabolites?

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Inhibition of kinases
Inhibition of enzymes involved in pyrimidine biosynthesis
Incorporation into RNA or DNA, causes misreading
Inhibition of DNA polymerase

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What is the role of folate?

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DNA synthesis
DNA repair
DNA methylation
Cofactor

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What are the active forms of folate?

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Tetrahydrofolate and dihydrofolate

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What do dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibitors do?

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They inhibit DHFR, which leads to:
Decreased levels of FH2 and FH4
Decreased conversion of dUMP into dTMP
Decreased DNA synthesis

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What are some DHFR inhibitors?

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Methotrexate
Pemetrexed (Alimta)
Pralatrexate (Folotyn)

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What does pralatrexate do?

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Inhibits enzymes used in purine and pyrimidine synthesis:
thymidylate synthase
dihydrofolate reductase
glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase

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What does folinic acid do?

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Adjuvant used in cancer chemotherapy to “rescue” bone marrow and GI mucosa cells from methotrexate

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What is 5-fluorouracil?

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“Mechanism-based” prodrug that acts as a suicide substrate and directly inhibits the thymidylate synthase

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What are the 3 main active metabolites of 5-fluorouracil?

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Fluorodeoxyuridine monophosphate (FdUMP)
Fluorodeoxyuridine triphosphate (FdUTP)
Fluorouridine triphosphate (FUTP)
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What is the MOA of 5-FU (specifically, it’s active metabolite FdUMP)?

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Direct inhibition of TS via the formation of a ternary complex in the nucleotide-binding site. This blocks dUMP from accessing the binding site.
This leads to an increase in dUTP, which causes DNA damage

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What are some other pyrimidine-based antimetabolites?

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Cytarabine (ARA-C)

Gemcitabine

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What are some purine-based antimetabolites?

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6-mercaptopurine
6-thioguanine
Fludarabbine phoshpate (Fludara)
Cladribine

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What is the MOA of 6-mercaptopurine?

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Blocks the synthesis of PRA and PRPP

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What are some antitumor antibiotics?

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Bleomycins
Anthracyclines
Etoposide and teniposide
Camptothecins
Actinomycins
Mitomycins
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What are bleomycins?
Cytotoxic glycopeptides
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What is the MOA of bleomycins?
Chelates metail ions (Fe, Cu) producing a pseudo enzyme that reacts with oxygen to produce free radicals, causing DNA strand breaks
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What is required for bleomycin DNA strand breaking? How is this achieved?
Reactivation and reorganization of bleomycin | The key to reorganization is the linker and the flexibility of the bithiazole tail
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What are some topoisomerase poisons?
Amsacrine Etoposide Doxorubicin Mitoxantrone
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What are the functions of DNA topoisomerase?
DNA replication DNA recombination Chromosome condensation/decondensation Segregation of sister chromatids
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What do topoisomerase II poisons do?
Cause single and double strand DNA breaks Increase in topoisomerase II levels - renders cell hypersensitive (more enzyme, more DNA breaks) Stabilize topoisomerase II-DNA covalent complexes
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What does topoisomerase II catalytic inhibitors do (...not do)?
Do not cause DNA strand breaks | Do not stabilize topoisomerase II-DNA cleavable complexes (and may destabilize them)
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What is the MOA of anthracyclines?
intercalation followed by inhibition of topoisomerase II leading to DNA strand breakage and apoptosis Additional mechanism: generation of free radicals
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What are the 5 clinically useful anthracyclines?
``` Doxorubicin Daunorubicin Epirubicin Idarubicin Valrubicin ```
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What limits the use of doxorubicin?
Cardiotoxicity; doxorubicin is a quinone and can be reduced to a semiquinone. The semiquinone reacts with oxygen to reform the quinone (redox cycling) Doxorubicin also forms a strong complex with Fe3+, which can be reduced to Fe2+, which can form free radicals
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What limits the use of etoposide?
Myelosuppression
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What is the MOA of camptothecins?
Inhibitor of topoisomerase I (prevents realignment and resealing); leads to double stranded DNA breaks and cell death
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What is increases the water solubility of campothecins to create topotecan and Irinotecan?
Addition of basic amine side chains
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What's the difference between topoisomerase I and II?
Top. I: single strand break | Top. II: double strand break
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What are some antimitotic compounds?
Vinca alkaloids Taxanes Epothilones IXA
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What are the two conjoined groups of vinca alkaloids?
``` Catharanthine moiety (indole, azonine, piperidine ring systms) Vindoline moiety (dihydroindole, cyclohexane, pyrrolidine, piperidine) ```
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What is the MOA of vinca alkaloids?
Disrupt formation of mitotic spindles, inhibiting microtubule assembly
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What are some vinca alkaloids?
Vinblastine Vincristine Vinorelbine
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What is the MOA of taxenes?
They bind to tubular at a different site than vinca alkaloids This stabilizes microtubules and prevent depolymerization, blocking mitosis
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What are some taxanes?
Paclitaxel (Taxol) | Docetaxel (Taxotere)
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What does vinblastine bind to the microtubule? What does paclitaxel bind?
Vinblastine binds to the plus end | Paclitexel binds on the interior surface
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What are epothilones?
They are macrocyclic lactones that have a MOA similar to taxanes but offer several advantages (don't require Cremophor EL for water solubility)
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What is IXA used for?
Taxane-resistant breast cancer
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What growth factors do we often target with several drugs and monoclonal antibodies to control overgrowth of cells/tissues?
``` Epidermal GF Platelet-derived GF Nerve GF Vascular endothelial GF Stem cell F ```
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What is the MOA of protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Kinase inhibitors mimic ATP to inhibit tyrosine kinases
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What is the first protein tyrosine kinase inhibitor on the market?
Imatinib (Gleevec) for chronic myelogenous leukemia
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What are other protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors?
Nilotinib Dasatinib Bosutinib Ponatinib
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How do type I kinase inhibitors bind?
They bind to the active conformation of the kinase with the aspartate residue and the DFG motif pointing into the ATP-binding pocket
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How do the type II kinase inhibitors bind?
They bind and stabilize the inactive conformation of the kinase with the flipped aspartate residue facing outward of the binding pocket
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What are the limitations of kinase inhibitors?
Cardiotoxicity (CHF, decreased ejection fraction, ischemia, infarction)
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What are some anticancer monoclonal antibodies?
``` Bevacizumab Cetuximab Ipilimumab Nivolumab Ofatumumab Paitumumab Rituximab ```
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What is the MOA of Bortezomib?
Inhibits proteosomes
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What is the MOA of dactinomycin?
Binds to DNA by intercalation, inhibiting DNA function

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