Isotretinoin (13-cis retinoic acid)

Catalog No.S1379 Batch:S137902

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Technical Data

Formula

C20H28O2
Molecular Weight 300.44 CAS No. 4759-48-2
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 60 mg/mL (199.7 mM)
Ethanol 1 mg/mL (3.32 mM)
Water 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 Isotretinoin (13-cis retinoic acid) was developed to be used as a chemotherapy medication for the treatment of brain cancer, pancreatic cancer and more.
Targets
hydroxylase [1]
In vitro Isotretinoin directly interferes with the development of cranial neural crest cells. [1] Isotretinoin selectively affects neural crest cells by decreasing their cell-substratum adhesion. [2]
In vivo Isotretinoin (500 ng/mL) and its main metabolite in the human, 4-oxo-isotretinoin, induce malformations similar to those seen in vivo. [1] Isotretinoin impairs explicit memory in Stage 2, but retention tests one month after Isotretinoin exposure ended, indicated recovery from this explicit memory impairment and evidence of enhanced implicit memory in the 10 mg and 15 mg ISO rats. [3] Isotretinoin slows the recovery of rod signaling after exposure to an intense bleaching light, and that rhodopsin regeneration is markedly slowed. Isotretinoin is also found to protect rat photoreceptors from light-induced damage. [4] Isotretinoin blocks the formation of A2E biochemically and the accumulation of lipofuscin pigments by electron microscopy. Isotretinoin also blocks the slower, age-dependent accumulation of lipofuscin in wild-type mice. [5]

Protocol (from reference)

Selleck's Isotretinoin (13-cis retinoic acid) has been cited by 8 publications

Isolation of Reporter Cells That Respond to Vitamin A and/or D Using a piggyBac Transposon Promoter-Trapping Vector System [ Int J Mol Sci, 2022, 23(16)9366] PubMed: 36012634
Neuronal Differentiation-Related Epigenetic Regulator ZRF1 Has Independent Prognostic Value in Neuroblastoma but Is Functionally Dispensable In Vitro [ Cancers -Basel), 2021, 13(19)4845] PubMed: 34638328
Retinoic acid rewires the adrenergic core regulatory circuitry of childhood neuroblastoma [ Sci Adv, 2021, 7(43):eabe0834] PubMed: 34669465
The antitumour drug ABTL0812 impairs neuroblastoma growth through endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated autophagy and apoptosis [ Cell Death Dis, 2020, 11(9):773] PubMed: 32943619
11q Deletion or ALK Activity Curbs DLG2 Expression to Maintain an Undifferentiated State in Neuroblastoma [ Cell Rep, 2020, 32(12):108171] PubMed: 32966799
MYT1 Attenuates Neuroblastoma Cell Differentiation by Interacting With the LSD1/CoREST Complex [ Oncogene, 2020, 39(21):4212-4226] PubMed: 32251364
Disruption of mesoderm formation during cardiac differentiation due to developmental exposure to 13-cis-retinoic acid [ Sci Rep, 2018, 8(1):12960] PubMed: 30154523
Synergy between loss of NF1 and overexpression of MYCN in neuroblastoma is mediated by the GAP-related domain [ Elife, 2016, 5e14713] PubMed: 27130733

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