Elesclomol (STA-4783)

Catalog No.S1052 Batch:S105207

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Technical Data

Formula

C19H20N4O2S2

Molecular Weight 400.5 CAS No. 488832-69-5
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 80 mg/mL (199.75 mM)
Water Insoluble
Ethanol Insoluble
* <1 mg/ml means slightly soluble or insoluble.
* Please note that Selleck tests the solubility of all compounds in-house, and the actual solubility may differ slightly from published values. This is normal and is due to slight batch-to-batch variations.
* Room temperature shipping (Stability testing shows this product can be shipped without any cooling measures.)

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Biological Activity

Description Elesclomol (STA-4783) is a novel potent oxidative stress inducer that elicits pro-apoptosis events among tumor cells. Phase 3.Elesclomol specifically binds ferredoxin 1 (FDX1) α2/α3 helices and β5 strand and inhibits FDX1-mediated Fe-S cluster biosynthesis.Elesclomol (STA-4783) is a potent copper ionophore and can be used in the research of copper-dependent cell death (cuproptosis).
Targets
HSP70 [1]
(Cell-free assay)
In vitro

Elesclomol significantly induces the expression of heat shock stress response genes and metallothionein genes, a signature transcription profile indicative of oxidative stress in Hs294T cells. Elesclomol (100 nM) rapidly induces Hsp70 RNA levels with a 4.8-fold increase at 1 hour and a 160-fold increase at 6 hours in Ramos Burkitt's lymphoma B cells in consistent with the intracellular ROS content which increases by 20% as early as 0.5 hour and 385% at 6 hours, and the induction of Hsp70 can be blocked by antioxidants NAC and Tiron pretreatment. Elesclomol increases the number of early and late apoptotic cells with 3.7- and 11-fold through the induction of oxidative stress, which can be completely blocked by NAC, while having little effect on normal cells. [1] Elesclomol significantly inhibits the cell viability of SK-MEL-5, MCF-7, and HL-60 with IC50 of 110 nM, 24 nM and 9 nM, respectively. [2] Elesclomol induces copper-dependent ROS generation and cytoxicity in yeast. Instead of working through a specific cellular protein target, Elesclomol interacts with the electron transport chain (ETC), a biologically coherent set of processes occurring in the mitochondrion, to generate high levels of ROS within the organelle and consequently cell death. [3]

In vivo

Although Elesclomol (25-100 mg/kg) as a single agent shows no antitumor activity in nude mouse xenograft models of human breast cancers (MDA435, MCF7 and ZR-75-1), lung cancer (RER) or lymphoma (U937), Elesclomol substantially enhances the efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents in these models, both in terms of tumor regression and extended survival of mice. [4]

Protocol (from reference)

Cell Assay:

[1]

  • Cell lines

    Hs294T, HSB2, and Ramos

  • Concentrations

    Dissolved in DMSO at a concentration of 10 mM, final concentrations ~500 nM

  • Incubation Time

    18, or 24 hours

  • Method

    Cells are treated with various concentrations of Elesclomol for 18 or 24 hours. The level of intracellular ROS is monitored using the DCFDA probe, which emits a green fluorescence on oxidation. Cell death is determined by flow cytometry of cells double stained with Annexin V/FITC and propidium iodide (PI) using a Vybrant Apoptosis assay kit.

Animal Study:

[4]

  • Animal Models

    Female CD-1 nude mice bearing established MDA435 breast cancer xenograft tumors

  • Dosages

    ~100 mg/kg

  • Administration

    Intravenous injection

Customer Product Validation

Data from [BMC Genomics, 2014, 15(1), 263]

, , Oncotarget, 2016, 7(35):56933-56943

Data from [Data independently produced by , , Int J Biochem Cell Biol, 2017, 85:166-174]

Data from [Data independently produced by , , Int J Radiat Biol, 2017, 93(2):194-203]

Selleck's Elesclomol (STA-4783) has been cited by 109 publications

MUC20 regulated by extrachromosomal circular DNA attenuates proteasome inhibitor resistance of multiple myeloma by modulating cuproptosis [ J Exp Clin Cancer Res, 2024, 43(1):68] PubMed: 38439082
Protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 15 A promotes translation initiation and induces G2M phase arrest during cuproptosis in cancers [ Cell Death Dis, 2024, 15(2):149] PubMed: 38365764
Systematic identification of anticancer drug targets reveals a nucleus-to-mitochondria ROS-sensing pathway [ Cell, 2023, 186(11):2361-2379.e25] PubMed: 37192619
Circulating extracellular vesicles are monitoring biomarkers of anti-PD1 response and enhancer of tumor progression and immunosuppression in metastatic melanoma [ J Exp Clin Cancer Res, 2023, 42(1):251] PubMed: 37759291
Metabolic modulation of mitochondrial mass during CD4+ T cell activation [ Cell Chem Biol, 2023, 30(9):1064-1075.e8] PubMed: 37716347
Integrated single-cell and bulk characterization of cuproptosis key regulator PDHB and association with tumor microenvironment infiltration in clear cell renal cell carcinoma [ Front Immunol, 2023, 14:1132661] PubMed: 37350959
Copper overload impairs hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell proliferation via prompting HSF1/SP1 aggregation and the subsequently downregulating FOXM1-Cytoskeleton axis [ iScience, 2023, 26(4):106406] PubMed: 37009226
ATF3/SPI1/SLC31A1 Signaling Promotes Cuproptosis Induced by Advanced Glycosylation End Products in Diabetic Myocardial Injury [ Int J Mol Sci, 2023, 24(2)1667] PubMed: 36675183
Perturbation of Copper Homeostasis Sensitizes Cancer Cells to Elevated Temperature [ Int J Mol Sci, 2023, 25(1)423] PubMed: 38203594
Identification of novel molecular subtypes and a signature to predict prognosis and therapeutic response based on cuproptosis-related genes in prostate cancer [ Front Oncol, 2023, 13:1162653] PubMed: 37205181

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