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Stereochemistry ABSOLUTE
Molecular Formula C69H81NO15
Molecular Weight 1164.3791
Optical Activity UNSPECIFIED
Defined Stereocenters 11 / 11
E/Z Centers 6
Charge 0

SHOW SMILES / InChI
Structure of PACLITAXEL DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID

SMILES

[H][C@]12[C@H](OC(=O)C3=CC=CC=C3)[C@]4(O)C[C@H](OC(=O)[C@H](OC(=O)CC\C=C/C\C=C/C\C=C/C\C=C/C\C=C/C\C=C/CC)[C@@H](NC(=O)C5=CC=CC=C5)C6=CC=CC=C6)C(C)=C([C@@H](OC(C)=O)C(=O)[C@]1(C)[C@@H](O)C[C@H]7OC[C@@]27OC(C)=O)C4(C)C

InChI

InChIKey=LRCZQSDQZJBHAF-PUBGEWHCSA-N
InChI=1S/C69H81NO15/c1-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-35-42-55(74)83-59(57(49-36-29-26-30-37-49)70-63(76)50-38-31-27-32-39-50)65(78)82-52-44-69(79)62(84-64(77)51-40-33-28-34-41-51)60-67(7,53(73)43-54-68(60,45-80-54)85-48(4)72)61(75)58(81-47(3)71)56(46(52)2)66(69,5)6/h9-10,12-13,15-16,18-19,21-22,24-34,36-41,52-54,57-60,62,73,79H,8,11,14,17,20,23,35,42-45H2,1-7H3,(H,70,76)/b10-9-,13-12-,16-15-,19-18-,22-21-,25-24-/t52-,53-,54+,57-,58+,59+,60-,62-,67+,68-,69+/m0/s1

HIDE SMILES / InChI

Description
Curator's Comment: Description was created based on several sources, including http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2011/020262s049lbl.pdf and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18068131

Paclitaxel is a mitotic inhibitor used in cancer chemotherapy. It was discovered in a US National Cancer Institute program at the Research Triangle Institute in 1967 when Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia and named it taxol. Later it was discovered that endophytic fungi in the bark synthesize paclitaxel. When it was developed commercially by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), the generic name was changed to paclitaxel and the BMS compound is sold under the trademark Taxol. In this formulation, paclitaxel is dissolved in Kolliphor EL and ethanol, as a delivery agent. Taxol is marketed for the treatment of Breast cancer; Gastric cancer; Kaposi's sarcoma; Non-small cell lung cancer; Ovarian cancer. A newer formulation, in which paclitaxel is bound to albumin, is sold under the trademark Abraxane. Paclitaxel is a taxoid antineoplastic agent indicated as first-line and subsequent therapy for the treatment of advanced carcinoma of the ovary, and other various cancers including breast cancer. Paclitaxel is a novel antimicrotubule agent that promotes the assembly of microtubules from tubulin dimers and stabilizes microtubules by preventing depolymerization. This stability results in the inhibition of the normal dynamic reorganization of the microtubule network that is essential for vital interphase and mitotic cellular functions. In addition, paclitaxel induces abnormal arrays or "bundles" of microtubules throughout the cell cycle and multiple asters of microtubules during mitosis. Used in the treatment of Kaposi's sarcoma and cancer of the lung, ovarian, and breast. Abraxane® is specfically indicated for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer and locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. Paclitaxel interferes with the normal function of microtubule growth. Whereas drugs like colchicine cause the depolymerization of microtubules in vivo, paclitaxel arrests their function by having the opposite effect; it hyper-stabilizes their structure. This destroys the cell's ability to use its cytoskeleton in a flexible manner. Specifically, paclitaxel binds to the β subunit of tubulin. Tubulin is the "building block" of mictotubules, and the binding of paclitaxel locks these building blocks in place. The resulting microtubule/paclitaxel complex does not have the ability to disassemble. This adversely affects cell function because the shortening and lengthening of microtubules (termed dynamic instability) is necessary for their function as a transportation highway for the cell. Chromosomes, for example, rely upon this property of microtubules during mitosis. Further research has indicated that paclitaxel induces programmed cell death (apoptosis) in cancer cells by binding to an apoptosis stopping protein called Bcl-2 (B-cell leukemia 2) and thus arresting its function.

CNS Activity

Curator's Comment: No or negligible penetration of paclitaxel over an intact blood– brain barrier

Approval Year

Targets

Targets

Primary TargetPharmacologyConditionPotency
7.08 µM [IC50]
Target ID: SKOV3 breast cancer cell growth
38.7 nM [IC50]
23.0 µM [EC50]
Conditions

Conditions

ConditionModalityTargetsHighest PhaseProduct
Primary
TAXOL

Approved Use

TAXOL is indicated as first-line and subsequent therapy for the treatment of advanced carcinoma of the ovary.

Launch Date

1998
Primary
TAXOL

Approved Use

TAXOL is indicated for the treatment of breast cancer after failure of combination chemotherapy for metastatic disease or relapse within 6 months of adjuvant chemotherapy.

Launch Date

1998
Primary
TAXOL

Approved Use

TAXOL, in combination with cisplatin, is indicated for the first-line treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer in patients who are not candidates for potentially curative surgery and/or radiation therapy.

Launch Date

1998
Cmax

Cmax

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
6.92 μM
250 mg/m² steady-state, intravenous
dose: 250 mg/m²
route of administration: Intravenous
experiment type: STEADY-STATE
co-administered:
PACLITAXEL plasma
Homo sapiens
population: UNHEALTHY
age: ADULT
sex: FEMALE / MALE
food status: UNKNOWN
0.5 μM
175 mg/m² steady-state, intravenous
dose: 175 mg/m²
route of administration: Intravenous
experiment type: STEADY-STATE
co-administered:
PACLITAXEL plasma
Homo sapiens
population: UNKNOWN
age: ADULT
sex: FEMALE
food status: UNKNOWN
AUC

AUC

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
27.07 μM × h
250 mg/m² steady-state, intravenous
dose: 250 mg/m²
route of administration: Intravenous
experiment type: STEADY-STATE
co-administered:
PACLITAXEL plasma
Homo sapiens
population: UNHEALTHY
age: ADULT
sex: FEMALE / MALE
food status: UNKNOWN
T1/2

T1/2

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
14.8 h
175 mg/m² steady-state, intravenous
dose: 175 mg/m²
route of administration: Intravenous
experiment type: STEADY-STATE
co-administered:
PACLITAXEL plasma
Homo sapiens
population: UNKNOWN
age: ADULT
sex: FEMALE
food status: UNKNOWN
Funbound

Funbound

ValueDoseCo-administeredAnalytePopulation
6.5%
PACLITAXEL plasma
Homo sapiens
population: UNKNOWN
age: UNKNOWN
sex: UNKNOWN
food status: UNKNOWN
Doses

Doses

DosePopulationAdverse events​
135 mg/m2 1 times / 3 weeks multiple, intravenous
Recommended
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Route: intravenous
Route: multiple
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Sources:
unhealthy, adult
Other AEs: Anaphylaxis, Dyspnea...
Other AEs:
Anaphylaxis (2%)
Dyspnea (severe, 2%)
Hypotension (severe, 2%)
Generalized urticaria (severe, 2%)
Angioedema (severe, 2%)
Sources:
AEs

AEs

AESignificanceDosePopulation
Anaphylaxis 2%
135 mg/m2 1 times / 3 weeks multiple, intravenous
Recommended
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Route: intravenous
Route: multiple
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Sources:
unhealthy, adult
Angioedema severe, 2%
135 mg/m2 1 times / 3 weeks multiple, intravenous
Recommended
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Route: intravenous
Route: multiple
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Sources:
unhealthy, adult
Dyspnea severe, 2%
135 mg/m2 1 times / 3 weeks multiple, intravenous
Recommended
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Route: intravenous
Route: multiple
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Sources:
unhealthy, adult
Generalized urticaria severe, 2%
135 mg/m2 1 times / 3 weeks multiple, intravenous
Recommended
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Route: intravenous
Route: multiple
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Sources:
unhealthy, adult
Hypotension severe, 2%
135 mg/m2 1 times / 3 weeks multiple, intravenous
Recommended
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Route: intravenous
Route: multiple
Dose: 135 mg/m2, 1 times / 3 weeks
Sources:
unhealthy, adult
PubMed

PubMed

TitleDatePubMed
Dissecting cellular processes using small molecules: identification of colchicine-like, taxol-like and other small molecules that perturb mitosis.
2000 Apr
Paclitaxel in advanced non-small cell lung cancer : an alternative high-dose weekly schedule.
2000 Apr
Schedule dependency of paclitaxel-induced neuropathy in mice: a morphological study.
2000 Aug
Phase I study of paclitaxel and day 1/day 8 gemcitabine in patients with solid malignancies.
2000 Aug
Evidence for a schedule-dependent deleterious interaction between paclitaxel, vinblastine and cisplatin (PVC) in the treatment of advanced transitional cell carcinoma.
2000 Dec
Doxorubicin and paclitaxel in advanced breast carcinoma: importance of prior adjuvant anthracycline therapy.
2000 Dec 1
Paclitaxel-induced stomal neuropathy: a unique cause of pain in a patient with ileal conduit.
2000 Dec 20
Cloning and expression of murine sister of P-glycoprotein reveals a more discriminating transporter than MDR1/P-glycoprotein.
2000 Jan
Mouse toll-like receptor 4.MD-2 complex mediates lipopolysaccharide-mimetic signal transduction by Taxol.
2000 Jan 28
Polymeric micellar paclitaxel phosphorylates Bcl-2 and induces apoptotic regression of androgen-independent LNCaP prostate tumors.
2000 Jul 1
Mechanism of paclitaxel activity in Kaposi's sarcoma.
2000 Jul 1
Biochemical mechanism of cross-resistance to paclitaxel in a mitomycin c-resistant human bladder cancer cell line.
2000 Mar 31
Second-line chemotherapy with paclitaxel, cisplatin and gemcitabine in pre-treated sensitive cisplatin-based patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
2000 May-Jun
Cell cycle status and apoptosis of hematopoietic progenitor cells released into the peripheral blood after taxanes and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in breast cancer patients.
2000 May-Jun
Bilateral blindness and lumbosacral myelopathy associated with high-dose carmustine and cisplatin therapy.
2000 Sep
Comparison of 2-methoxyestradiol-induced, docetaxel-induced, and paclitaxel-induced apoptosis in hepatoma cells and its correlation with reactive oxygen species.
2000 Sep 1
A paclitaxel-containing chemotherapy does not cause central nervous adverse effects: a prospective study in patients with ovarian cancer.
2000 Sep-Oct
Doxorubicin and paclitaxel in the treatment of advanced breast cancer: efficacy and cardiac considerations.
2001
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of high-dose paclitaxel monotherapy (825 mg/m2 continuous infusion over 24 h) with hematopoietic support in women with metastatic breast cancer.
2001
Drug approval summaries: arsenic trioxide, tamoxifen citrate, anastrazole, paclitaxel, bexarotene.
2001
In vivo metabolism of epothilone B in tumor-bearing nude mice: identification of three new epothilone B metabolites by capillary high-pressure liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry/tandem mass spectrometry.
2001
High affinity binding of paclitaxel to human serum albumin.
2001 Apr
Recurrent metastatic fallopian tube carcinoma in pregnancy.
2001 Apr
Connexin 43 (cx43) enhances chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in human glioblastoma cells.
2001 Apr 1
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma ligands suppress the transcriptional activation of cyclooxygenase-2. Evidence for involvement of activator protein-1 and CREB-binding protein/p300.
2001 Apr 13
Taxol-induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis: dose-response relationship in lung cancer cells of different wild-type p53 status and under isogenic condition.
2001 Apr 26
Isolation of cortical MTs from tobacco BY-2 cells.
2001 Feb
Changes in glycosylation during Drosophila development. The influence of ecdysone on hemomucin isoforms.
2001 Feb
Disruption of microtubular cytoskeleton induced by cryptogein, an elicitor of hypersensitive response in tobacco cells.
2001 Feb
Involvement of Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-directed, caspase-mediated mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1 Cleavage, c-Jun N-terminal kinase activation, and subsequent Bcl-2 phosphorylation for paclitaxel-induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells.
2001 Feb
Phase I study of paclitaxel (Taxol) plus vinorelbine (Navelbine) in patients with untreated stage IIIb and IV non-small cell lung cancer.
2001 Feb-Mar
Cisplatin and vinorelbine as second-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resistant to taxol plus gemcitabine.
2001 Feb-Mar
Treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer in North America: the emerging role of irinotecan.
2001 Jan
Tumor cell-derived TGF-beta and IL-10 dysregulate paclitaxel-induced macrophage activation.
2001 Jan
Opposite effects of microtubule-stabilizing and microtubule-destabilizing drugs on biogenesis of mitochondria in mammalian cells.
2001 Jan
Pretreatment with paclitaxel enhances apo-2 ligand/tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-induced apoptosis of prostate cancer cells by inducing death receptors 4 and 5 protein levels.
2001 Jan 15
Taxane-antibody conjugates afford potent cytotoxicity, enhanced solubility, and tumor target selectivity.
2001 Jan 15
Antitumor synergy of CV787, a prostate cancer-specific adenovirus, and paclitaxel and docetaxel.
2001 Jan 15
Dispersion of cyclin B mRNA aggregation is coupled with translational activation of the mRNA during zebrafish oocyte maturation.
2001 Jan 15
Enhanced taxol production and release in Taxus chinensis cell suspension cultures with selected organic solvents and sucrose feeding.
2001 Jan-Feb
The role of actin filaments and microtubules in hepatocyte spheroid self-assembly.
2001 Mar
Activation of caspase-8 in drug-induced apoptosis of B-lymphoid cells is independent of CD95/Fas receptor-ligand interaction and occurs downstream of caspase-3.
2001 Mar 1
Paclitaxel sensitization of multidrug-resistant cells to chemotherapy is independent of the cell cycle.
2001 Mar 1
Paclitaxel restores radiation-induced apoptosis in a bcl-2-expressing, radiation-resistant lymphoma cell line.
2001 Mar 15
Regulation of ROMK1 channels by protein-tyrosine kinase and -tyrosine phosphatase.
2001 Mar 9
Insulin-like growth factor-I receptor antagonism results in increased cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells to doxorubicin and taxol.
2001 Mar-Apr
Inhibition of telomerase activity as a measure of tumor cell killing by cisplatin in squamous cell carcinoma cell line.
2001 Mar-Apr
P-glycoprotein efflux pump expression and activity in Calu-3 cells.
2001 May
Regulation of stress-responsive mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways by TAO2.
2001 May 11
Regulation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 transcript in response to cisplatin, adriamycin, taxol and ionising radiation is correlated to p53 functional status in ovarian cancer cell lines.
2001 May-Jun
Patents

Sample Use Guides

For previously untreated patients with carcinoma of the ovary, one of the following recommended regimens may be given every 3 weeks. a.TAXOL (PACLITAXEL) administered intravenously over 3 hours at a dose of 175 mg/m2 followed by cisplatin at a dose of 75 mg/m2; or b.TAXOL (PACLITAXEL) administered intravenously over 24 hours at a dose of 135 mg/m2 followed by cisplatin at a dose of 75 mg/m2 2) In patients previously treated with chemotherapy for carcinoma of the ovary, the recommended regimen is TAXOL (PACLITAXEL) 135 mg/m2 or 175 mg/m2 administered intravenously over 3 hours every 3 weeks.
Route of Administration: Intravenous
Paclitaxel inhibited tubulin polymerization in the presence of MAPs in vitro with an IC50 value of 38.19 ± 3.33 uM in living cancer cells (Hela cells and human osteosarcoma U2OS cells).
Name Type Language
PACLITAXEL DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID
Common Name English
PACLITAXEL 2'-(ALL-CIS-4,7,10,13,16,19-DOCOSAHEXAENOATE)
Common Name English
PACLITAXEL-DHA
Common Name English
DHA-PACLITAXEL
Common Name English
PACLITAXEL DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID ESTER
Common Name English
Dha paclitaxel [WHO-DD]
Common Name English
DHA PACLITAXEL
WHO-DD  
Common Name English
TAXOPREXIN
Brand Name English
Classification Tree Code System Code
FDA ORPHAN DRUG 153301
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FDA ORPHAN DRUG 153001
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FDA ORPHAN DRUG 147801
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NCI_THESAURUS C1490
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NCI_THESAURUS C67437
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PUBCHEM
6918473
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NCI_THESAURUS
C2649
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WIKIPEDIA
DHA-PACLITAXEL
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FDA UNII
OJE5810C4F
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DRUG BANK
DB05297
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NSC
683347
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CAS
199796-52-6
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EPA CompTox
DTXSID00873216
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