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Modulation of resistance to cisplatin by amphotericin B and aphidicolin in human larynx carcinoma cells.

The aim of this study was to examine whether resistance to cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II)] (CDDP) could be overcome by amphotericin B, cyclosporin A and aphidicolin in two sublines of human larynx carcinoma HEp2 cells. The sensitivity of parental and cisplatin-resistant CA3 and CK2 cells to amphotericin B, cyclosporin A and aphidicolin, and also the effects of these drugs (given in maximal nontoxic concentrations) on cisplatin sensitivity were determined by clonogenic survival assay. CA3 and CK2 cells were sensitive to amphotericin B, and resistant to cyclosporin A and aphidicolin, compared with their parental cells. Amphotericin B increased cisplatin toxicity 2-fold in CA3 cells and 2.7-fold in CK2 cells, while it had no effect in parental HEp2 cells. Cyclosporin A did not influence the sensitivity of examined cells to cisplatin. The sensitizing effect of aphidicolin was more obvious in cisplatin-resistant cells. Cisplatin toxicity was increased by aphidicolin: 1.5-fold in HEp2 cells, 2-fold in CA3 cells, and 1.9-fold in CK2 cells. Therefore, the resistance to cisplatin in human larynx carcinoma CA3 and CK2 cells can be partially reversed by amphotericin B and aphidicolin.

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Selection of aphidicolin-resistant CHO cells with altered levels of ribonucleotide reductase.

Chinese hamster ovary cells were initially selected for resistance to aphidicolin at 0.3 microgram/ml. Serial cultivation with aphidicolin at concentrations up to 5.0 micrograms/ml yielded a series of mutants with increasing resistance. The most resistant mutant isolated was 44 times more resistant to aphidicolin than the parental CHO. The alpha-polymerases, assayed in the cytoplasmic extracts of the mutants, did not increase in specific activity or differ from the parental CHO in their sensitivity to aphidicolin. When cultured in the presence of deoxythymidine, deoxyadenosine, and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl cytosine (araC) the mutants showed considerably more resistance to these inhibitors than did the parental CHO. The intracellular pools of all four deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) in the mutants increased with increasing resistance to aphidicolin. The elevated dNTP pools in the mutant most resistant to aphidicolin appear to be the result of a 4- to 8-fold increase in the level of ribonucleotide reductase (2'-deoxyribonucleoside diphosphate:oxidized thioredoxin 2'-oxidoreductase, EC 1.17.4.1).

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A method for the synchronization of cultured cells with aphidicolin: application to the large-scale synchronization of L1210 cells and the study of the cell cycle regulation of thymidylate synthase and dihydrofolate reductase.

The DNA polymerase alpha inhibitor, aphidicolin, was employed to synchronize large-scale suspension cultures (10(9) cells) of murine L1210 leukemia cells. On the basis of the doubling time and cell cycle distribution for logarithmically growing L1210 cells, a synchronization protocol was devised involving a temporal sequence of two 12-h exposures to aphidicolin, separated by an 6-h interval in drug-free medium. After the second aphidicolin treatment, resuspension of cells into drug-free medium resulted in the rapid onset of DNA synthesis as assessed by [3H]thymidine incorporation and DNA fluorescence with flow cytometry. By 6 h after aphidicolin removal, the cells progressed into the G2-M phase and cell division was initiated. DNA synthesis was minimal during this time and remained low through 9 h when the majority of the cells were in G1 phase. Only low levels of cytotoxicity were observed when L1210 cells were treated with aphidicolin in this fashion. The levels of both thymidylate synthase and dihydrofolate reductase were relatively constant during cell cycle transit, following release from the aphidicolin blockade. Similarly, the levels of the corresponding mRNA transcripts for these enzymes, measured by Northern blot hybridizations, remained essentially unchanged through most of the cell cycle, increasing approximately twofold only as the cells entered G1 phase. Whereas intracellular dihydrofolate reductase catalytic activity was relatively unchanged throughout the cell cycle, as reflected in the metabolism of [3H]folic acid to reduced folate forms, a marked increase in in situ thymidylate synthase activity occurred during S phase that was tightly linked to the rate of DNA synthesis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Terminal differentiation of human erythroleukemia cell line K562 induced by aphidicolin.

To analyze the relationship between differentiation and DNA replication, the effect of aphidicolin, a specific inhibitor for DNA polymerase alpha, was measured with respect to erythroid differentiation and activities of DNA polymerases alpha, beta, and gamma. Five micromolar aphidicolin completely blocked the growth of K562 cells and caused 80% of cells to become hemoglobin positive after 5 days exposure. The cessation of K562 cell growth induced by aphidicolin was irreversible, whereas the inhibition of HeLa cell growth was completely reversible. The enzyme activity of DNA polymerase alpha of K562 cells showed a 50-110% increase with aphidicolin treatment as compared to control K562 cells; activities of DNA polymerases beta and gamma were not affected. These features sharply contrasted with the erythroid induction of the same cells by hemin, where cell growth was not suppressed and DNA polymerase alpha was not increased but rather decreased. The enzyme activity of DNA polymerase alpha remained high even after removal of aphidicolin from the culture medium. These results suggest that treatment with aphidicolin might induce an accumulation of protein factors for replication and/or differentiation, causing rapid cell differentiation of cells without cell division.

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DNA repair induced by various mutagens in rat hepatocyte primary cultures measured in the presence of hydroxyurea, guanazole or aphidicolin.

Guanazole and aphidicolin were chosen as candidates in the search for a selective, non-genotoxic inhibitor of DNA replication which could be used instead of hydroxyurea to measure DNA repair synthesis in rat hepatocyte primary cultures by liquid scintillation counting. The genotoxicity of these 3 chemicals was studied using the Salmonella/liver homogenate assay and the autoradiographic UDS test in hepatocytes. Hydroxyurea was positive in both of these assays. Guanazole and aphidicolin did not induce DNA repair in hepatocytes. Aphidicolin was not mutagenic for Salmonella typhimurium, whereas guanazole increased the revertant numbers of strain TA102 slightly. The incorporation of [3H]thymidine was measured by liquid scintillation to determine DNA repair induced by 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF), aflatoxin B1, benzo[a]pyrene, cyclophosphamide, H2O2, 6-hydroxydopamine, N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), methylnitrosourea (MNU), 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide and UV irradiation in the presence of either 10 mM hydroxyurea, 15 mM guanazole or 0.015 mM aphidicolin. Aphidicolin had an inhibitory effect on DNA repair. Except for the 3 chemicals mentioned below, the sensitivity of the DNA repair measurement was the same, no matter whether hydroxyurea or guanazole was used to inhibit replicative DNA synthesis. In the presence of hydroxyurea, DNA repair synthesis was found at lower concentrations in the case of aflatoxin B1, due to differences in the solvent control values, and in the case of H2O2, possibly due to a synergistic effect between hydroxyurea and H2O2. Guanazole allowed the detection of DNA repair induced by MNNG at lower concentrations, probably because of an antagonistic effect between hydroxyurea and MNNG. Based on these results, it was concluded that guanazole, but not aphidicolin, could be used instead of hydroxyurea to measure DNA repair synthesis by liquid scintillation in rat hepatocyte primary cultures. Although guanazole does not completely fulfill the criteria for an ideal DNA replication inhibitor, it has the advantage of being less genotoxic than hydroxyurea, and also appears to have a smaller potential to falsify the results by interacting with the test compounds.

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Aphidicolin-resistant mutants of bacteriophage phi 29: genetic evidence for altered DNA polymerase.

Aphidicolin-resistant mutants (Aphr) of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage phi 29 were isolated after mutagenesis with hydroxylamine. Efficiency of plating (e.o.p.) of the resistant mutants was not reduced at 500 microM aphidicolin, although e.o.p. of wild type phi 29 was less than 10(-5) at the same concentration of aphidicolin. By recombination and complementation analyses, both sites of the mutations, aph-71 and aph-101, of Aphr71 and Aphr101, respectively, were mapped in gene 2 which encodes phi 29 DNA polymerase. The activity of wild type phi 29 DNA polymerase, in a partially purified fraction, was inhibited by aphidicolin. DNA polymerases from Aphr71 and Aphr101, prepared in the same manner as that of wild type, were resistant to the drug. These results indicate that the acquisition of the aphidicolin resistance of Aphr71 and Aphr101 of bacteriophage phi 29 results from a structural alteration of phi 29 DNA polymerase which reduces sensitivity to aphidicolin.

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Aphidicolin-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cells possess altered DNA polymerases of the alpha-family.

DNA polymerases alpha, delta and epsilon were partially purified and characterized from a wild type Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line and from two aphidicolin-resistant mutant CHO cell lines (BR5 and BR5-20a). The main characteristics of the wild type and mutant DNA polymerases were compared in order to reveal differences in the properties of these enzymes responsible for the aphidicolin resistance of the mutant cell lines. Pol alpha's of the mutant cells show: (1) in vitro aphidicolin-resistance, (2) 1.5-3-fold lower specific activity than that of the wild type, (3) resistance to cytosine and adenosine arabinofuranoside 5'-triphosphate (araCTP and araATP), (4) altered resistance to carbonyldiphosphonate (COMDP) and to alkylphenyl nucleotide analogs (butylphenyl-dGTP and butylanilino-dATP), and (5) lower activity on poly(dA)/oligo(dT) template-primers. These changes in the biochemical properties of this enzyme may result from a mutation in pol alpha gene. Pol epsilon and delta of the mutant cells did not differ from the wild type enzymes with respect to aphidicolin resistance. However, the specific activities of these mutant enzymes were much higher (1.5 to 8-fold for pol epsilon and 4 to 20-fold for pol delta) in comparison to that of the wild type enzymes. Also in comparison to the wild type enzymes, the mutant pol epsilon showed changes in the template-primer preference; whereas the mutant pol delta was found to have altered sensitivity to other inhibitors. These results indicate that pol epsilon and pol delta are also altered as a secondary effect of mutation in the aphidicolin-resistant cells. It is suggested that these altered properties of the DNA pols of the alpha family are responsible for the in vivo aphidicolin resistance of the mutant cells.

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Aphidicolin selectively kills neuroblastoma cells in vitro.

Aphidicolin is a tetracyclic diterpene antibiotic which is known to inhibit the growth of eucaryotic cells by reversible binding to DNA polymerase alpha without significant effect on cell viability in most common human cell lines. We observed that aphidicolin at a concentration of 5 x 10(-7) M kills all cells of four human neuroblastoma cell lines. In contrast, viability of normal human embryonal cells and of human continuous cell lines including HeLa, H9, A549 and Caco-2 was influenced only moderately by aphidicolin. In addition, neuroblastoma cells were killed after treatment with 5 x 10(-7) M aphidicolin in cocultures with normal embryonal cells which continued to proliferate after removal of aphidicolin. These results show that aphidicolin provides an agent which selectively kills neuroblastoma cells in vitro.

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Aphidicolin markedly increases the platinum sensitivity of cells from primary ovarian tumours.

Enhanced DNA repair has been observed in cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer cell lines. This resistance can be modulated, on co-incubation with aphidicolin in established cell lines and animal tumour models, by inhibiting DNA polymerases. We describe a study of the in vitro modulation effect of aphidicolin on cisplatin and carboplatin using fresh cells harvested from biopsy samples or ascitic fluids from 25 patients with ovarian adenocarcinoma. The MTT assay was used to measure cell survival after drug exposure. Aphidicolin (up to 30 microM) showed no cytotoxicity when tested alone. Forty-seven comparisons were made between drug with and without aphidicolin, and 37 (79%) cases demonstrated a significant increase in sensitivity to the platinum agents on co-incubation. Overall, there was a median 10-fold (range 1.64- to 58.5-fold) increase in sensitivity. When patients were grouped according to in vitro sensitivity to platinum, aphidicolin had a significantly greater effect in the "resistant' group, causing a median 13.5-fold increase in sensitivity compared with 2.4-fold in the "sensitive' group. Furthermore, a positive correlation between the LC50 for platinum and the corresponding fold increase in sensitivity suggests that aphidicolin overcomes platinum resistance in fresh cells from primary tumours. These results encourage the further development of this interesting compound.

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Aphidicolin triggers a block to replication origin firing in Xenopus egg extracts.

DNA replication origins are located at random with respect to DNA sequence in Xenopus early embryos and on DNA replicated in Xenopus egg extracts. We have recently shown that origins fire throughout the S phase in Xenopus egg extracts. To study the temporal regulation of origin firing, we have analyzed origin activation in sperm nuclei treated with the DNA polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin. Sperm chromatin was incubated in Xenopus egg extracts in the presence of aphidicolin and transferred to a fresh extract, and digoxigenin-dUTP and biotin-dUTP were added at various times after aphidicolin release to selectively label early and late replicating DNA. Molecular combing analysis of single DNA fibers showed that only a fraction of potential origins were able to initiate in the presence of aphidicolin. After release from aphidicolin, the remaining origins fired asynchronously throughout the S phase. Therefore, initiation during the S phase depends on the normal progression of replication forks assembled at earlier activated origins. Caffeine, an inhibitor of the checkpoint kinases ATR and ATM, did not relieve the aphidicolin-induced block to origin firing. We conclude that a caffeine-insensitive intra-S phase checkpoint regulates origin activation when DNA synthesis is inhibited in Xenopus egg extracts.

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Aphidicolin synchronization of mouse L cells perturbs the relationship between cell killing and DNA double-strand breakage after X-irradiation.

Mouse L cells were synchronized in early S-phase by two 12 h incubations in medium containing aphidicolin (2 micrograms/ml), separated by 8 h in drug-free medium. The relationship between X-ray-induced cell killing and DNA double-strand breakage was then examined for cells that had entered S-phase, G2-phase, mitosis, and G1-phase following release from aphidicolin and was compared to the response of asynchronous cultures. Aphidicolin-synchronized cells showed cycle phase-dependent changes in their dose-responses for both killing and DNA dsb. However, on the basis of the level of DNA dsb per unit length of DNA required to produce a lethal lesion, aphidicolin-synchronized cells were more sensitive to X-rays than were asynchronous cultures. This sensitivity peaked 2 h after release from aphidicolin treatment and then progressively declined towards the asynchronous culture value. It is argued that these results are due to deregulation of the temporal order of DNA replication following aphidicolin treatment, and can be incorporated into the critical DNA target size model (Radford, Hodgson, and Matthews, in preparation) by postulating that the targets for radiation action in mammalian cells are DNA-associated with potentially transcriptionally active proto-oncogenes or constitutive fragile sites.

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Specific inhibitors of eukaryotic DNA synthesis and DNA polymerase alpha, 3-deoxyaphidicolin and aphidicolin-17-monoacetate.

Of several phytotoxins isolated from culture filtrates of Phoma betae Frank PS-13, an incitant of leaf spot disease of sugar beet, three have been identified as aphidicolin, 3-deoxyaphidicolin and aphidicolin-17-monoacetate. Aphidicolin is a selective inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA polymerase alpha (Ikegami et al. (1978) Nature 275, 458-460). Consequently, we studied the action mechanism of 3-deoxyaphidicolin and aphidicolin-17-monoacetate. These aphidicolin analogues markedly inhibited the in vivo DNA synthesis of sea urchin embryos and HeLa cells but not RNA and protein syntheses. Only DNA polymerase alpha, not DNA polymerase beta and gamma, was inhibited by these drugs. The mode of action of these analogues on DNA polymerase alpha from the sea urchin was competitive inhibition with respect to dCTP with Ki values of 0.44 micrograms/ml for deoxyaphidicolin and 0.89 micrograms/ml for aphidicolin monoacetate, respectively. None of the other three dNTPs competed with these drugs. A similar inhibitory mode was observed using the enzyme from HeLa cells and toad oocytes. These drugs at a concentration of 2 micrograms/ml caused a delay in the cleavage of fertilized eggs of the sea urchin and decomposition before blastulation, indicating the possibility of achromosomal cleavage because of the absence of DNA synthesis. Based on the above, it is concluded that these analogues can be used as other inhibitors of eukaryotic DNA synthesis and DNA polymerase alpha.

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Mechanism of inhibition of herpes simplex virus and vaccinia virus DNA polymerases by aphidicolin, a highly specific inhibitor of DNA replication in eucaryotes.

The inhibition in vitro of herpes simplex virus 1 and vaccinia virus DNA polymerases by aphidicolin is primarily noncompetitive with dGTP, dATP, dTTP, DNA, and Mg2+ and competitive with dCTP in analogy with the mode of inhibition of cellular alpha-polymerase. The degree of inhibition of viral or cellular growth in vivo can be quantitatively predicted by the degree of inhibition of the isolated replicative DNA polymerases at the same concentration of aphidicolin in suitable conditions (limiting dCTP concentration). Thus, the only in vivo target for aphidicolin is probably the replicative DNA polymerase, and aphidicolin is a highly specific inhibitor of replicative nuclear DNA synthesis in eucaryotes. This, coupled with the lack of mutagenic effect, represents a valuable property for an anticancer drug. The specificity of inhibition (contrary to the aspecific effect on almost all DNA polymerases by a true competitive inhibitor, such as 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytidine 5'-triphosphate) and the structure of the drug, which does not resemble that of the triphosphates, suggest that aphidicolin must recognize a site common only to the replicative DNA polymerases of eucaryotes and different from the binding site for deoxyribonucleic triphosphates and DNA, which should be similar in reparative and procaryote-type DNA polymerase; the aphidicolin binding site is probably very near to, or even overlaping with, the binding site for dCTP so that the drug mimics a competitive effect with this nucleotide.

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Effects of aphidicolin on Entamoeba histolytica growth and DNA synthesis.

We have detected and characterized DNA polymerase activity in cell extracts from trophozoites of Entamoeba histolytica and have found that the activity of E. histolytica is inhibited by aphidicolin, which is a specific inhibitor of eukaryotic nuclear replicative DNA polymerases. The present study was aimed to evaluate the effect of aphidicolin on growth and DNA synthesis by this parasite. Aphidicolin blocked the growth of axenic E. histolytica strain HM-1: IMSS. DNA synthesis was also inhibited by aphidicolin when assayed by incorporation of [3H] thymidine into the DNA. The inhibitory effect of aphidicolin on the growth of E. histolytica was abrogated by removal of the drug, and exposure to 3 microg/ml of the drug for at least 48 hr had little effect on the viability. Synchronous growth was observed in the recovery phase after removal of aphidicolin.

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Selective abrogation of alloreactivity via priming in the presence of aphidicolin, a specific inhibitor of DNA polymerase.

Aphidicolin, a specific and direct inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA polymerase alpha, was used to investigate its impact on immunologic reactions in vitro. Dose response curve of the inhibitory effect was studied in murine and human primary allogeneic responses, as well as the proliferative responses to both PHA and Con A mitogens. The presence of aphidicolin during the allosensitization phase in secondary MLR of mice splenocytes resulted in complete abolishment of the subsequent response directed against the priming alloantigens, whereas alloreactivity to unrelated alloantigen-bearing cells was inhibited to a much lesser degree. The allosensitized aphidicolin-treated cells lost the ability to respond to subsequent PHA stimulation, but were capable of exerting a high responsiveness to Con A. The presence of aphidicolin during the allosensitization phase in secondary MLR of human mononuclear cells resulted in markedly decreased alloreactivity directed against the priming cells, but spared the subsequent response to unrelated alloantigens and to both PHA and Con A mitogenic stimuli. It is suggested that aphidicolin may be used for selective inactivation of proliferating cells without interfering with immunologic functions of other quiescent subsets. Aphidicolin may thus be a useful agent for induction of specific unresponsiveness in experimental models of allogeneic transplantation.

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[The inhibition of the proliferation and energy metabolism of Cloudman melanoma cells in vitro by aphidicolin and gamma radiation].

PURPOSE: The present investigation is concerned with the effect of aphidicolin (a tetracyclic diterpenoid) and gamma-ray [correction of X-ray] irradiation--alone or in combination--on cell proliferation, protein production, glucose consumption and lactate production of in vitro cultured Cloudman melanoma cells. METHODS: Monolayer cultures of Cloudman melanoma cells in exponential growth phase were irradiated with 2, 4 or 6 Gy (cobalt-60) or treated for 96 h with 0.1, 0.2 or 1.0 microgram/ml aphidicolin. Further, the combination of 0.1 or 0.2 micrograms/ml aphidicolin with the above mentioned radiation doses were investigated. Measurements were performed in regard to changes of cell number, protein content, glucose consumption and lactate production. RESULTS: Single treatments resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of cell proliferation, protein production, glucose consumption and lactate production. Combined treatment with aphidicolin and irradiation caused an augmentation of the respective single effects. The inhibitory effects were more pronounced under serum-free than serum-containing culture conditions. Influence of aphidicolin and irradiation did not result in an immediate cell death, but in a state of unbalanced growth with enlarged cells (in part with an increased number of nuclei) and an increased cellular protein content. CONCLUSIONS: The combination of aphidicolin with gamma-ray [correction of X-ray] irradiation caused a stronger effect than the respective single treatments.

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Aphidicolin uncouples the chloroplast division cycle from the mitotic cycle in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.

The unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae possesses one chloroplast, one mitochondrion, and one cell nucleus. Since the division of these organelles and cytokinesis occur in a coordinated manner, mitosis and the organelle division cycles must be tightly coupled. We report here that aphidicolin, a specific inhibitor of DNA polymerase alpha, uncouples the chloroplast division cycle from the mitotic cycle. The effects of aphidicolin on C. merolae cells were examined by both epifluorescence and electron microscopy. When cells at the S phase in synchronous culture were treated with aphidicolin, mitosis and cytokinesis did not occur, while chloroplast division did. Moreover, both of the chloroplasts in these cells continued to divide and then generated four or more chloroplasts per cell. The inhibition of cell-nuclear DNA synthesis by aphidicolin was confirmed using microfluorometry. In addition, microfluorometry revealed that the total size and the amount of DNA in chloroplasts in aphidicolin-treated cells remained constant during uncoupled chloroplast division. As a result, the size and amount of DNA per chloroplast decreased stepwise during chloroplast division. Electron microscopic examination of aphidicolin-treated cells showed that the second division of chloroplasts uses a chloroplast-dividing ring similar to that in cells undergoing normal chloroplast division. These results suggest that chloroplast division by the dividing ring is free from a checkpoint control that inhibits the progression of mitosis and cytokinesis in the absence of the completion of cell-nuclear DNA synthesis, and also that chloroplasts lack a checkpoint control mechanism that inhibits its division without growth or DNA synthesis of itself.

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Increased efficacy of aphidicolin killing of human neuroblastoma cells in vitro by encapsulation in liposomes.

Aphidicolin is a tetracyclic diterpene antibiotic which kills human neuroblastoma cells (NB) in vitro while it has no significant effect on the viability of different human cell types including normal embryonal cells. In the present study, we tested whether aphidicolin encapsulated in liposomes kills NB cells with the efficacy superior to that of unencapsulated aphidicolin. The drug was entrapped in vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylserine and cholesterol in a molar ratio of 83:5:12. The treatment with encapsulated aphidicolin at a concentration of 200 nmol for 5 days killed all cells of three human NB cell lines. In contrast, at least 30% of the cells survived 5 days of treatment with 200 nmol unencapsulated aphidicolin. The results showed that aphidicolin killing of human NB cells may be increased by encapsulation in liposomes.

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