Beta-Lapachone

Catalog No.S7261 Batch:S726101

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Technical Data

Formula

C15H14O3
Molecular Weight 242.27 CAS No. 4707-32-8
Solubility (25°C)* In vitro DMSO 48 mg/mL (198.12 mM)
Ethanol 10 mg/mL (41.27 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 Beta-Lapachone (β-Lapachone, ARQ-501) is a selective DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor, exhibiting no inhibitory activities against DNA topoisomerase II or ligase. Phase 2.
Targets
Topo I [1] IDO1 [4]
0.44 μM
In vitro Beta-Lapachone inhibits DNA relaxation induced by DNA topoisomerase I in a dose-dependent manner. [1] Treatment of beta-lapachone (100 nM or greater) results in >95% inhibition of Topo I DNA unwinding activity compared to the DMSO control. beta-lapachone (1-5 μM) causes a block in G0/G1 of the cell cycle and induces apoptosis by locking Topo I onto DNA and blocking replication fork movement in HL-60 and three human prostate cancer (DU-145, PC-3, and LNCaP) cells. [2] Beta-Lapachone facilitates the migration of mouse 3T3 fibroblasts and human endothelial EAhy926 cells through different MAPK signaling pathways, and thus accelerates scrape-wound healing in vitro. [3] In addition, beta-Lapachone inhibits purified recombinant IDO1 activity through uncompetitive inhibition with IC50 of 0.44 μM, and beta-lapachone also exhibits superior retention of intracellular IDO1 inhibitory activity with an IC50 of 1.0 μM, partially dependent on biotransformation by NQO1. [4] Beta-lapachone induces programmed necrosis of NQO1+ cancer cells by NQO1-dependent reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation and PARP1 hyperactivation. [5]
In vivo Beta-lapachone treatment (50 mg/kg) leads to potent inhibition of in vivo tumor growth in a xenograft mouse model of human ovarian cancer, and the combination of beta-lapachone and taxol produces a synergistic induction of apoptosis. [6] In normal and diabetic (db/db) mice, treatment of beta-lapachone results in a faster healing process than vehicle only. [3]

Protocol (from reference)

Kinase Assay:
  • Topoisomerase I Catalytic Actioity Assay [1]

    Topoisomerase I Catalytic Actioity Assay: The enzymatic activity is analyzed by the DNA unwinding assay. DNA topoisomerase I, from TopoGEN (1 unit, which is defined as the amount of enzyme that converts 0.5 μg of superhelical DNA to the relaxed state in 30 minutes at 37 °C), is incubated with 0.5 μg of 6x174 RF DNA, in the presence or absence of Beta-Lapachone, in 20 μL of relaxation buffer (50 mM Tris (pH 7.5). 50 mM KCI, 10 mM MgCl2, 0.5 mM dithiothreitol, 0.5 mM EDTA, 30 μg/mL bovine serum albumin) for 30 minutes at 37 °C. Reactions are stopped by adding 1% SDS and proteinase K (50 μg/mL). After an additional 1-hour incubation at 37 °C, the products are separated by electrophoresis in 1% agarose gel in TAE buffer (0.04 M tris acetate, 0.001 M EDTA). The gel is stained with ethidium bromide after electrophoresis. The photographic negative is scanned with an NIH image analysis system.
Cell Assay:[2]
  • Cell lines

    HL-60, PC-3, DU145, and LNCaP cells

  • Concentrations

    0.005 to 50 μM

  • Incubation Time

    12 hours

  • Method

    IC50 calculations for each cell line are determined by DNA amount (IS) and anchorage-dependent colony formation (CF) assays. For the CF assay, cells are seeded at 500 viable cells/well in 6-well plates and incubated overnight, then treated with equal volumes of media containing beta-lapachone at final concentrations ranging from 0.005 to 50 μM in half-log increments (controls were treated with 0.25% DMSO, equivalent to the highest dose of beta-lapachonc used) for 4 hour or for continuous 12-hour exposures. Plates (3 wells/condition) are stained with crystal violet, and colonies of >50 normal-appearing cells are enumerated. IC50 values for various cells are calculated using drug doses with numbers of colonies surrounding 50% of control. For DNA assays, plates are harvested for IC50 determinations 8 days after treatment using a CytoFluor 2350 fluorescence measurement system. Six-well samplings are included in the calculation of DNA fluor units for each dose. A graph of beta-lapachone dose versus percentage control DNA in fluor units is used to calculate each IC50. All experiments are repeated at least twice, each in duplicate.

Animal Study:[6]
  • Animal Models

    Human ovarian cancer cells (36M2) are established in nude mice.

  • Dosages

    25–50 mg/kg

  • Administration

    Intraperitoneal administration

Selleck's Beta-Lapachone has been cited by 10 publications

Visualization strategies to aid interpretation of high-dimensional genotoxicity data [ Environ Mol Mutagen, 2024, 10.1002/em.22604] PubMed: 38757760
High‑throughput screening identification of a small‑molecule compound that induces ferroptosis and attenuates the invasion and migration of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by targeting the STAT3/GPX4 axis [ Int J Oncol, 2023, 62(3)42] PubMed: 36825585
Potential drug discovery for COVID-19 treatment targeting Cathepsin L using a deep learning-based strategy [ Comput Struct Biotechnol J, 2022, 20:2442-2454] PubMed: 35602976
Receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) inhibitors Necrostatin-1 (Nec-1) and 7-Cl-O-Nec-1 (Nec-1s) are potent inhibitors of NAD(P)H: Quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) [ Free Radic Biol Med, 2021, 173:64-69] PubMed: 34252539
CD38 Drives Progress of Osteoarthritis by Affecting Cartilage Homeostasis [ Front Pharmacol, 2021, 12:766909] PubMed: 34790130
Kinetics of γH2AX and phospho-histone H3 following pulse treatment of TK6 cells provides insights into clastogenic activity [ Mutagenesis, 2021, geab014] PubMed: 33964157
Nitazoxanide, an anti-parasitic drug, efficiently ameliorates learning and memory impairments in AD model mice. [ Acta Pharmacol Sin, 2019, 10.1038/s41401-019-0220-1] PubMed: 31000769
Predictions of genotoxic potential, mode of action, molecular targets, and potency via a tiered multiflow® assay data analysis strategy [ Environ Mol Mutagen, 2019, 60(6):513-533] PubMed: 30702769
Peroxiredoxin V Reduces β-Lapachone-induced Apoptosis of Colon Cancer Cells. [ Anticancer Res, 2019, 39(7):3677-3686] PubMed: 31262894
Investigating the Generalizability of the MultiFlow ® DNA Damage Assay and Several Companion Machine Learning Models With a Set of 103 Diverse Test Chemicals. [ Toxicol Sci, 2017, 162(1):146-166] PubMed: 29106658

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