Andrew K Kwegyir-Afful, Senthilmurugan Ramalingam, Vidya P Ramamurthy, Puranik Purushottamachar, Francis N Murigi, Tadas S Vasaitis, Weiliang Huang, Maureen A Kane, Yuji Zhang, Nicholas Ambulos, Sudhir Tiwari, Pratima Srivastava, Ivo P Nnane, Arif Hussain, Yun Qiu, David J Weber, Vincent C O Njar
These studies compared the efficacies of our clinical agent galeterone (Gal) and the FDA-approved prostate cancer drug, enzalutamide (ENZ) with two lead next generation galeterone analogs (NGGAs), VNPP414 and VNPP433-3β, using prostate cancer (PC) in vitro and in vivo models. Antitumor activities of orally administered agents were also assessed in CWR22Rv1 tumor-bearing mice. We demonstrated that Gal and NGGAs degraded AR/AR-V7 and Mnk1/2; blocked cell cycle progression and proliferation of human PC cells; induced apoptosis; inhibited cell migration, invasion, and putative stem cell markers; and reversed the expression of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT)...
October 24, 2019: Cancers