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Bleomicina A2
Indicazioni: Trattamento chemioterapico delle attività metaplastiche di alcuni
tessuti, fra i quali in particolare gli epiteli malpighiani ad alta cheratinizzazione
(melanoma del canale anale).
Gli altri, i non seminomi, includono differenti forme, tra cui i carcinomi
embrionali, i coriocarcinomi, i teratomi e i tumori del sacco vitellino, quella
parte associata all'embrione che contiene materiale di riserva per il suo
nutrimento.
Base Propenal
La parte bitiazolica della BLM viene intercalata tra coppie di basi del DNA
La parte peptidica si dispone parallelamente all’asse del DNA
Il complesso BLM-Fe++-O2 dà origine a radicali HO. e HOO. in prossimità della
catena di desossiriboso-fosfato, determinando scissioni, preferibilmente tra
coppie G-C e A-T
Products of bleomycin-induced double-stranded DNA cleavage and a proposed model for
this process.
Enediini
Esperamicine e Calicheamicine
Neocarzinostatina
Calicheamicine
Calicheamicina γ1
The calicheamicins are a class of enediyne antibiotics derived from the bacterium
Micromonospora echinospora, with calicheamicin γ1 being the most notable. It was
isolated originally in the mid-1980s from the chalky soil, or "calichi pits", located in
Kerrville, Texas. The sample was collected by a scientist working for Lederle Labs.
It is extremely toxic to all cells and in the year 2000, a CD33 antigen-targeted
immunoconjugate N-acetyl dimethyl hydrazide calichiamicin was developed and marketed
as targeted therapy against the non-solid tumor cancer acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Calicheamicin γ1 and the related enediyne esperamicin are the two of the most potent
antitumor agents known.
Mechanism of Calicheamicin Triggering
S-S reduction
Michael
Addition
Bergman
Cyclization
Hydrogen
p-Phenylene Diradical Abstraction
Calicheamicins target DNA, causing strand scission. Calicheamicins bind with DNA in
the minor groove, where they then undergo a reaction analogous to the Bergman
cyclization, generating a diradical species. Like all enediynes, this diradical, 1,4-
didehydrobenzene, then abstracts hydrogen atoms from the deoxyribose (sugar)
backbone of DNA, which results in strand scission.
Ozogamicine
Anticorpi monoclonali coniugati con calicheamicina
The linker, consisting of the amino acids valine (Val) and citrulline (Cit), is
cleaved by cathepsin inside tumour cell.
Targeting the protein CD30 which is found on malignant cells in anaplastic large
cell lymphoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma: