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. 2020 Nov 12;21(12):1087–1094. doi: 10.1080/15384047.2020.1838034

Table 1.

Effects of anticancer drugs on the heparan sulfate proteoglycans in different cancer cell models

  ANTICANCER DRUG TARGETS CANCER TYPE BIOLOGICAL EFFECT REFERENCE
Natural Products Calcarea Carbonica Perlecan Melanoma Perlecan expression antagonist 37
Genistein Heparan Sulfate (HS)
Chondroitin Sulfate (CS)
Dermatan Sulfate
(DS)
Colon adenocarcinoma
Breast cancer
Regulate the synthesis and distribution of
glycosaminoglycans
40
Monoclonal Antibodies Nbto62 Syndecan-1 Multiple myeloma Blocking syndecan-1 activity 28
B-B4 Multiple melanoma 27
OC-46F2 Melanoma
And ovarian carcinoma
25,26
Codrituzumab Glypican 3 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Blocking glypican-3 activity 30,31
GPC1-AD Glypican 1 Cervical Cancer Inhibited the growth of glypican-positive cervical cancer cells 31
Trastuzumab Heparan sulfate Breast cancer Mediates trastuzumab effect 33,34
Syndecan-1 Decreases syndecan-1 expression
Syndecan −4 and Perlecan Anoikis resistant endothelial cells Decreases syndecan-4 and perlecan expression 34
Panitumumab Syndecan-4 Colon cancer Decreases the expression of syndecan-4 35
Antitumor antibiotic Mitoxantrone Glypican 3 Gastric carcinoma GPC3 contributes to resistance of cancer cells to mitoxantrone 45
Bleomycin Heparan Sulfate (HS)
Chondroitin Sulfate (CS)
Dermatan Sulfate
(DS)
Colon Cancer
Lung cancer
Decreases sulfation and change the quantity and disaccharide composition of GAGs 48
Mimetic Peptide NT4 HSPGs
Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans
Pancreas adenocarcinoma Binds to HSPGs and GAGs and inhibited adhesion, reduces angiogenesis
and invasiveness
4,38
Synstatin Syndecan 1 Breast cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Inhibits the syndecan-1-coupled
IGF1R-αvβ3 integrin complex
51,52
PG545 Heparan Sulfate Breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon, head and neck cancers and melanoma Inhibits heparanase activity,
angiogenesis and induce anti-metastatic effects
56
M402 Pancreatic cancer
Melanoma
Binds to multiples growth factors, adhesion molecules, and cytokines to inhibit tumor angiogenesis, progression, and metastasis 55
Phosphomannopentaose Sulfate (PI-88) Adenocarcinoma mammary
Myeloid leukemia
Inhibits heparanase activity, angiogenesis and tumor metastasis 43
Others Bisphosphonate Zoledronic acid (ASCO) Syndecan-1
Syndecan-2
Syndecan- 4
Glypican
Breast cancer Syndecan-1 and glypican 1 downregulation and syndecan-4 upregulation 44
all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) Syndecan −1 Lung cancer Modulate the syndecan-1 expression and shedding 45