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Research ArticleMetabolism, Transport, and Pharmacogenomics

The Novel Anthracenedione, Pixantrone, Lacks Redox Activity and Inhibits Doxorubicinol Formation in Human Myocardium: Insight to Explain the Cardiac Safety of Pixantrone in Doxorubicin-Treated Patients

Emanuela Salvatorelli, Pierantonio Menna, Odalys Gonzalez Paz, Massimo Chello, Elvio Covino, Jack W. Singer and Giorgio Minotti
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 2013, 344 (2) 467-478; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.112.200568
Emanuela Salvatorelli
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Pierantonio Menna
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Odalys Gonzalez Paz
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Massimo Chello
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Elvio Covino
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Jack W. Singer
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Giorgio Minotti
Drug Sciences (E.S., P.M., O.G.P., G.M.) and Cardiac Surgery (M.C., E.C.), Center for Integrated Research, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy; and Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Washington (J.W.S.)
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Abstract

Cardiotoxicity from the antitumor anthracycline doxorubicin correlates with doxorubicin cardiac levels, redox activation to superoxide anion (O2._) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and formation of the long-lived secondary alcohol metabolite doxorubicinol. Cardiotoxicity may first manifest during salvage therapy with other drugs, such as the anthracenedione mitoxantrone. Minimal evidence for cardiotoxicity in anthracycline-pretreated patients with refractory-relapsed non-Hodgkin lymphoma was observed with the novel anthracenedione pixantrone. We characterized whether pixantrone and mitoxantrone caused different effects on doxorubicin levels, redox activation, and doxorubicinol formation. Pixantrone and mitoxantrone were probed in a validated ex vivo human myocardial strip model that was either doxorubicin-naïve or preliminarily subjected to doxorubicin loading and washouts to mimic doxorubicin treatment and elimination in the clinical setting. In doxorubicin-naïve strips, pixantrone showed higher uptake than mitoxantrone; however, neither drug formed O2._ or H2O2. In doxorubicin-pretreated strips, neither pixantrone nor mitoxantrone altered the distribution and clearance of residual doxorubicin. Mitoxantrone showed an unchanged uptake and lacked effects on doxorubicin levels, but synergized with doxorubicin to form more O2._ and H2O2, as evidenced by O2._-dependent inactivation of mitochondrial aconitase or mitoxantrone oxidation by H2O2-activated peroxidases. In contrast, pixantrone uptake was reduced by prior doxorubicin exposure; moreover, pixantrone lacked redox synergism with doxorubicin, and formed an N-dealkylated product that inhibited metabolism of residual doxorubicin to doxorubicinol. Redox inactivity and inhibition of doxorubicinol formation correlate with the cardiac safety of pixantrone in doxorubicin-pretreated patients. Redox inactivity in the face of high cardiac uptake suggests that pixantrone might also be safe in doxorubicin-naïve patients.

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  • This work was supported by University Campus Bio-Medico through a Research Agreement with Cell Therapeutics Inc, Seattle, WA, and Special Project “Cardio-Oncology” (to G.M.). A charity fund from Telecomunicazioni Italia is gratefully acknowledged.

  • dx.doi.org/10.1124/jpet.112.200568.

  • Received September 30, 2012.
  • Accepted November 27, 2012.
  • Copyright © 2013 by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
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Doxorubicin and the Cardiac Safety of Pixantrone

Emanuela Salvatorelli, Pierantonio Menna, Odalys Gonzalez Paz, Massimo Chello, Elvio Covino, Jack W. Singer and Giorgio Minotti
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1, 2013, 344 (2) 467-478; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.112.200568

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Doxorubicin and the Cardiac Safety of Pixantrone

Emanuela Salvatorelli, Pierantonio Menna, Odalys Gonzalez Paz, Massimo Chello, Elvio Covino, Jack W. Singer and Giorgio Minotti
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics February 1, 2013, 344 (2) 467-478; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.112.200568
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