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¹ Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; ² Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; ³ Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California; and ⁴ ProlX Pharmaceuticals, Tucson, Arizona

Requests for reprints: Garth Powis, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, 1515 North Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85724-5024. Phone: 520-626-6408; Fax: 520-626-4848. E-mail: gpowis{at}azcc.arizona.edu

We have developed biologically stable semisynthetic viridins as inhibitors of phosphoinositide (PtdIns)-3-kinases. The most active compound was PX-866 (acetic acid (1S,4E,10R,11R,13S,14R)-[4-diallylaminomethylene-6-hydroxy-1-methoxymethyl-10,13-dimethyl-3,7,17-trioxo-1,3,4,7,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-2-oxa-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-11-yl ester), which inhibited purified PtdIns-3-kinase with an IC₅₀ of 0.1 nmol/L and PtdIns-3-kinase signaling measured by phospho-Ser⁴⁷³-Akt levels in HT-29 colon cancer cells with an IC₅₀ of 20 nmol/L. PX-866 administered to mice at 10 mg/kg inhibited phospho-Ser⁴⁷³-Akt in HT-29 colon tumor xenografts up to 80% with recovery taking >48 hours after p.o. administration but more rapidly after i.v. or i.p. administration. PX-866 was eliminated from mouse plasma with a half-life of 18 minutes and a clearance of 360 mL/min/kg following i.v. administration and, when administered i.p. or p.o., showed first-pass metabolism with sequential N-deallylation. Synthetic standards of the N-deallylated metabolites of PX-866 inhibited PtdIns-3-kinase at low nanomolar per liter concentrations. PX-866 exhibited in vivo antitumor activity against s.c. OvCar-3 human ovarian cancer and A-549 human lung cancer xenografts in immunodefficient mice with log cell kills up to 1.2. PX-866 also increased the antitumor activity of cisplatin against A-549 xenografts and radiation treatment against OvCar-3 xenografts. The results show that PX-866 is a biologically stable broad-spectrum PtdIns-3-kinase inhibitor with good pharmacokinetics that causes prolonged inhibition of PtdIns-3-kinase signaling in human tumor xenografts. PX-866 exhibits single agent in vivo antitumor activity and increases the antitumor effects of cisplatin and radiation treatment.

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⁵ Wipf P, Minion DJ, Halter RJ, et al. Synthesis and biological evaluation of synthetic viridins derived from C(20)-hetroalkylation of the steroidal Pl-3-kinase inhibitor wortmannin. Org Biomol Chem. In press 2004.

⁶ G. Powis, unpublished results.

⁷ R. Abraham, unpublished observations.

Received 3/ 3/04; revised 4/13/04; accepted 5/ 5/04.