Anticancer activity of FTY720: phosphorylated FTY720 inhibits autotaxin, a metastasis-enhancing and angiogenic lysophospholipase D.
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van Meeteren, Laurens A, Brinkmann, Volker, Saulnier-Blache, Jean Sebastien, Lynch, Kevin and Moolenaar, Wouter H (2008) Anticancer activity of FTY720: phosphorylated FTY720 inhibits autotaxin, a metastasis-enhancing and angiogenic lysophospholipase D. Cancer Letters, 266 (2). pp. 203-208. ISSN 0304-3835
Abstract
FTY720 is an immunomodulator that is phosphorylated in vivo and inhibits lymphocyte mobilization by targeting sphingosine 1-phospate receptors. At doses higher than required for immunomodulation, FTY720 inhibits tumor progression through an unknown mechanism. Here we show that FTY720-phosphate is a competitive inhibitor (Ki approximately 0.2microM) of autotaxin (ATX or NPP2), a nucleotide phosphodiesterase/pyrophosphatase (NPP) that enhances metastasis and angiogenesis and acts as a lysophospholipase D to produce the lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). FTY720-phosphate did no affect the activity of NPP1, the closest relative of ATX. After oral administration in mice, FTY720 (3mg/kg) significantly reduced plasma LPA levels. These results suggest that FTY720 may exert its anticancer effects, at least in part, by targeting the ATX-LPA axis.
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| Keywords: | FTY720; Autotaxin; Lysophosphatidic acid; Tumor progression |
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| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2009 13:52 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2013 01:05 |
| URI: | https://oak.novartis.com/id/eprint/825 |