A Modified Nucleoside 6-Thio-2'-Deoxyguanosine Exhibits Antitumor Activity in Gliomas

Shengnan Yu, Shiyou Wei, Milan Savani, Xiang Lin, Kuang Du, Ilgen Mender, Silvia Siteni, Themistoklis Vasilopoulos, Zachary J. Reitman, Yin Ku, Di Wu, Hao Liu, Meng Tian, Yaohui Chen, Marilyne Labrie, Casey M. Charbonneau, Eric Sugarman, Michelle Bowie, Seethalakshmi Hariharan, Matthew WaitkusWen Jiang, Roger E. McLendon, Edward Pan, Mustafa Khasraw, Kyle M. Walsh, Yiling Lu, Meenhard Herlyn, Gordon Mills, Utz Herbig, Zhi Wei, Stephen T. Keir, Keith Flaherty, Lunxu Liu, Kongming Wu, Jerry W. Shay, Kalil Abdullah, Gao Zhang, David M. Ashley

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Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the therapeutic role of a novel telomeredirected inhibitor, 6-thio-20-deoxyguanosine (THIO) in gliomas both in vitro and in vivo. Experimental Design: A panel of human and mouse glioma cell lines was used to test therapeutic efficacy of THIO using cell viability assays, flow cytometric analyses, and immunofluorescence. Integrated analyses of RNA sequencing and reverse-phase protein array data revealed the potential antitumor mechanisms of THIO. Four patient-derived xenografts (PDX), two patientderived organoids (PDO), and two xenografts of human glioma cell lines were used to further investigate the therapeutic efficacy of THIO. Results: THIO was effective in the majority of human and mouse glioma cell lines with no obvious toxicity against normal astrocytes. THIO as a monotherapy demonstrated efficacy in three glioma cell lines that had acquired resistance to temozolomide. In addition, THIO showed efficacy in four human glioma cell lines grown as neurospheres by inducing apoptotic cell death. Mechanistically, THIO induced telomeric DNA damage not only in glioma cell lines but also in PDX tumor specimens. Integrated computational analyses of transcriptomic and proteomic data indicated that THIO significantly inhibited cell invasion, stem cell, and proliferation pathways while triggering DNA damage and apoptosis. Importantly, THIO significantly decreased tumor proliferation in two PDO models and reduced the tumor size of a glioblastoma xenograft and a PDX model. Conclusions: The current study established the therapeutic role of THIO in primary and recurrent gliomas and revealed the acute induction of telomeric DNA damage as a primary antitumor mechanism of THIO in gliomas.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)6800-6814
Number of pages15
JournalClinical Cancer Research
Volume27
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2021
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Medicine

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