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Altered production of the active oxygen species is involved in enhanced cytotoxic action of acylated derivatives of ascorbate to tumor cells.

Our previous study shows that 6-O-acyl derivatives of L-ascorbic acid inhibits more markedly cell growth of mouse Ehrlich carcinoma than ascorbic acid. The present study shows that 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid but not ascorbic acid prolongs the lifespan of mice into which tumors such as Meth A fibrosarcoma, MM46 mammary carcinoma, Ehrlich carcinoma and sarcoma 180 are implanted. The potentiated cytotoxicity of 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid is not due to an increase in duration time of the cytotoxic action, because 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid is gradually inactivated during contact with tumor cells and exhibits a similar action time curve to that of ascorbic acid as shown by clonal growth assay. Cytotoxicity of 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid is markedly diminished by combined addition of catalase and superoxide dismutase (SOD), as shown by dye exclusion assay, whereas the cytotoxicity was slightly reduced by either enzyme alone but not by the specifically inactivated or heat-denatured enzymes. In contrast, cytotoxicity of ascorbic acid is abolished by catalyse but not SOD. Autooxidation of 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid was not inhibited by catalase plus SOD. The results indicate that cytotoxicity of 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid is attributed at least partly to both hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and superoxide (O2-.) generated at the early stage. Cytotoxicity of 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbic acid is also appreciably attenuated by singlet oxygen (1O2) scavengers such as hydroquinone, 1,4-diazobicyclo-2,2,2-octane or sodium azide, but not by hydroxyl radical scavengers including butylated hydroxytoluene, D-mannitol, benzoic acid and ethanol. Thus, in contrast to cytotoxicity of ascorbic acid mediated entirely by H2O2 initially generated, acylated ascorbic acid produces a diversity of active oxygen species including H2O2, O2-. and other species secondarily generated via disproportion, which may be additively involved in the enhanced cytotoxic action.

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