Flavopiridol (Alvocidib) HCl

CDK7, CDK6, CDK4, CDK2, CDK1

438, 3

human prostate cancer xenografts, PRXFI337 and PRXFI369, grown s.c. in nude mice

0, 100 500, 5000 nM

Flavopiridol is dissolved in water.

Flavopiridol is initially found to inhibit the epidermal growth factor receptor and protein kinase A (IC50 = 21 and 122 uM). Flavopiridol is later shown to inhibit cell proliferation, at more physiologically relevant concentrations (IC50 = 66 nM) when Flavopiridol is tested in the National Cancer Institute Development Therapeutics Program panel of 60 human tumor cell lines. [1] Flavopiridol induces G1 arrest with inhibition of CDK2 and CDK4 in human breast carcinoma cells in a time and concentration dependent manner. [2] Short time treatment of Flavopiridol (ca.12 hours) induce apoptosis in hematopoietic cell lines including SUDHL4, SUDHL6 (B-cell lines), Jurkat and MOLT4 (T-cell lines ), and HL60 (myeloid). [3] In the clonogenic assay, Flavopiridol functions as a highly potent cytotoxic compound with a mean IC70 with 8 ng/mL in 23 human tumor models. [4] A recent study shows Flavopiridol treatment induces a substantial AKT-Ser473 phosphorylation in human glioblastoma T98G cell line. [5]

14 hours

Cells grown at a density of 1, 106 cells/mL are exposed to Flavopiridol for different concentrations and time periods. DNA is extracted. Briefly, cells are washed once with cold phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and lysed with 3 mL lysis buffer (5 mM Tris-HCL [pH 7.5], 20 mM EDTA, 0.5% Triton X-100) for 15 minutes at 4 C. The chromatin of the cell lysates is isolated by centrifugation (20 minutes at 26, 000g, 4 C). The supernatants containing small DNA fragments are extracted sequentially with phenol, phenol:chloroform (1:1), and chloroform. Nucleic acids are precipitated in 0.5 M NaCl, 90% ethanol at -20 C overnight. RNA is then digested by bovine RNAaseA (60 ug/mL). After sequential reextraction and reprecipitation, DNA is dissolved in 10 mM Tris-HCL (pH 7.5), 1 mM EDTA, 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) before electrophoresis on 1.6% agarose gel.

Flavopiridol (Alvocidib) HCl competes with ATP to inhibit CDKs including CDK1, CDK2, CDK4 and CDK6 with IC50 of ~ 40 nM in cell-free assays. It is 7.5-fold more selective for CDK1/2/4/6 than CDK7. Flavopiridol is initially found to inhibit EGFR and PKA. Flavopiridol HCl induces autophagy and ER stress. Flavopiridol HCl blocks HIV-1 replication. Phase 1/2.