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Review

Targeting Carbonic Anhydrase IX Activity and Expression

by
Brian P. Mahon
†,
Melissa A. Pinard
† and
Robert McKenna
*
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Molecules 2015, 20(2), 2323-2348; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/molecules20022323
Submission received: 18 August 2014 / Accepted: 25 December 2014 / Published: 30 January 2015
(This article belongs to the Collection Efficient Pharmaceutical and Chemical Approaches for Anticancer Therapy: Design, Preliminary Evaluations, and Further Developments)
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Metastatic tumors are often hypoxic exhibiting a decrease in extracellular pH (~6.5) due to a metabolic transition described by the Warburg Effect. This shift in tumor cell metabolism alters the tumor milieu inducing tumor cell proliferation, angiogenesis, cell motility, invasiveness, and often resistance to common anti-cancer treatments; hence hindering treatment of aggressive cancers. As a result, tumors exhibiting this phenotype are directly associated with poor prognosis and decreased survival rates in cancer patients. A key component to this tumor microenvironment is carbonic anhydrase IX (CA IX). Knockdown of CA IX expression or inhibition of its activity has been shown to reduce primary tumor growth, tumor proliferation, and also decrease tumor resistance to conventional anti-cancer therapies. As such several approaches have been taken to target CA IX in tumors via small-molecule, anti-body, and RNAi delivery systems. Here we will review recent developments that have exploited these approaches and provide our thoughts for future directions of CA IX targeting for the treatment of cancer.

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1. Introduction

Hypoxia is a condition commonly seen in metastatic tumors where cells are deprived of oxygen due to rapid proliferation and a shift in their metabolism [1]. Specifically, hypoxic tumor cells outgrow their blood supply leading to regions of low oxygen concentration (typically ≤1% of overall oxygen content) as well as a decrease in extracellular pH (~pH 6.5) in the tumor microenvironment [1,2]. This hypoxic stress induces a shift in the tumor cells general metabolism from oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria to aerobic glycolysis in the cytosol as the main energy source. Interestingly, this metabolic shift remains present in the tumor cells regardless of the amount of the available O2 in the given environment; a phenomenon often described as the Warburg effect [3]. Since these tumor cells rapidly use glycolysis, increased amounts of lactic acid are exported from the cell, thus lowering the extracellular pH. As a result, there is an upregulation of pH homeostasis factors in tumor cells to establish a regulated intracellular/extracellular pH gradient [3,4].
Since the 1930s it has been well established that there is a correlation between tumor hypoxia and a resistance to radiation therapy [5,6]. In addition, hypoxic tumors have shown to also present a resistance to common chemotherapeutics and a high probability of metastases; hence tumor hypoxia has been associated with a poor patient prognosis [7]. Hypoxia inducible factors (HIF) are key regulators of the hypoxic-induced stress response in both normal and tumor cells. Specifically, increased HIF-1 has been associated with activating hypoxia-inducible genes that express hypoxia-responsive elements (HRE) that upregulate elements associated with metabolism, cell proliferation, drug resistance, pH regulation, angiogenesis, metastasis, and the overall progression of cancer [8]. In order to survive in the acidic microenvironment these tumor cells must be able to maintain an intracellular pH at or near physiological levels (pH 7.4) [9]. Therefore carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity is key in this regulatory process.
CAs are a family of zinc metalloenzymes that catalyze the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate and a proton [10]. Humans express 15 CA isoforms (alpha-class CAs), and of these CA IX and CA XII have been shown to be associated with tumors. Both these enzymes are transmembrane isoforms with an extracellular catalytic domain, and show high expression in solid tumors while exhibiting low expression in normal tissues (CA IX expression only) [11]. CA IX however, has been shown to be more prevalent in solid tumors compared to CA XII, and as a result has been marked as a therapeutic target for aggressive cancers [7,12,13].
CA IX expression directly correlates to an upregulation of HIF elements, and has been shown to play a role in tumor cell survival, proliferation, migration, growth, adhesion, pH regulation, and cell-signaling pathways [14,15,16]. The minimal expression of CA IX in normal tissues and its location on the external interface of tumor cells have made it an attractive therapeutic target. As a result, several methods have been employed to try to target CA IX in terms of isoform selective small-molecule inhibition, location specific targeting, knockdown using RNAi technology, and more recently antigenic targeting of CA IX as a means to deliver anti-cancer therapeutics directly to tumor.
In this review we will present a brief overview of the biochemical and biophysical properties of CA IX, discuss current technologies used to target the enzyme for the treatment of several cancers, and speculate on novel methods of delivering therapeutic applications.

2. CA IX Structure and Function

The CA9 gene encodes for a 459 amino acid transmembrane glycoprotein that exists as a homodimer. It is comprised of: a proteoglycan-like domain (PG) (59 aa), catalytic domain (CA) (257 aa), a signal peptide domain (which is removed prior to enzyme maturation) (37 aa), transmembrane domain (TM) (20 aa), and a C-terminal intracellular domain (25 aa) [17] (Figure 1A). Mass spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography have confirmed the presence of an intermolecular disulfide bridge between adjacent Cys137 residues of the mature homodimer that, coupled with a region of hydrophobic residues, are proposed to stabilize the dimer interface [18,19]. N-linked and O-linked glycosylation sites also exist at Asn 309 and Thr 78, respectively [20]. The catalytic domain of CA IX is structurally homologous to the alpha-CAs with high amino acid conservation within the active site [21]. In CA IX three histidine residues (His 226, 228 and 251, as numbered in the full length aa sequence) coordinate the zinc ion at the base of the active site cleft; in the crystal structure (PDB ID: 3IAI) acetazolamide (AZM) displaces a zinc bound water/hydroxide (Zn-OH/H2O) molecule maintaining a tetrahedral coordination about the zinc ion (Figure 1B). Variability between the CA isoforms occurs in the hydrophobic and hydrophilic pockets of the active site and surface amino acids [19,20,22] (Figure 2). The structural and amino acid conservation that exists between the active sites of human CA isoforms has made it difficult to design CA IX specific inhibitors and avoid off-target inhibition of other CAs that are ubiquitously expressed in normal tissue [23].
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Figure 1. (A) Schematic diagram of CA IX structure. Proteoglycan-like domain (PG, yellow), catalytic domain (CA, violet), a transmembrane anchor (TM, cyan), and an intracellular domain (IC, green). Spheres represent glycosylation sites. The PG domain was generated using a structure prediction server Robetta [24] and the CA domain is from the coordinates of the CA IX crystal structure (PDB ID: 3IAI). The TM anchor and IC domain were generated using Chimera [25] and COOT [26] software packages, respectively. This figure was adapted from: Mahon et al. [27] (B) Acetazolamide (AZM) bound in the active site of CA IX (PDB ID: 3IAI). Figure was created using PyMol [28].
Figure 1. (A) Schematic diagram of CA IX structure. Proteoglycan-like domain (PG, yellow), catalytic domain (CA, violet), a transmembrane anchor (TM, cyan), and an intracellular domain (IC, green). Spheres represent glycosylation sites. The PG domain was generated using a structure prediction server Robetta [24] and the CA domain is from the coordinates of the CA IX crystal structure (PDB ID: 3IAI). The TM anchor and IC domain were generated using Chimera [25] and COOT [26] software packages, respectively. This figure was adapted from: Mahon et al. [27] (B) Acetazolamide (AZM) bound in the active site of CA IX (PDB ID: 3IAI). Figure was created using PyMol [28].
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The catalytic efficiency of CA IX is fast and comparable to that of CA II; CA II exhibits a kcat of 1.4 × 106 while CA IX has a kcat of 3.8 × 105 [29,30]. The presence of the PG domain in CA IX is unique compared to the other CA isoforms and is thought to be responsible for its cell adhesion capability and maintaining its catalytic activity in the acidic tumor microenvironment [27].
CA IX’s most critical role is thought to be extracellular pH regulation, especially in the tumor microenvironment. Proliferating cancer cells often produce large amounts of lactate, carbon dioxide and protons during oncogenic metabolism making CA function pivotal in tumor cell survival. These metabolic end products accumulate in the extracellular environment and significantly lower the extracellular pH. In order to maintain a near physiological intracellular pH, bicarbonate anions generated by CA IX during the hydrolysis of carbon dioxide are transported into the cell via anion transporters to buffer intracellular pH levels. In addition protons produced from the reaction remain extracellular thus contributing to the acidic nature of the tumor milieu [31]. Disruption of this regulatory pathway would therefore have detrimental effects on overall tumor cell survival.

3. HIF-1 Regulates CA IX Expression

HIFs are major regulators of stress induced responses in tumor cells and CA IX expression has been observed to be directly linked to an upregulation of HIF-1 [5]. HIF-1 is a heterodimeric complex, consisting of an α- and β-subunit (HIF-α and HIF-β, respectively). The HIF-α subunit exists as three isomers: 1, 2 and 3. During activation of hypoxia-inducible genes via HIF mediated pathways, the HIFα-β heterodimeric complex forms in the cytosol and is trafficked to the nucleus [32,33]. Formation of this heterodimer is the rate-determining step of in the expression of HREs since in non-hypoxic stress induced conditions the α-subunit is quickly degraded via the Von Hippel-Linadau (VHL) regulatory pathway [9,32,33,34]. HIF-α and HIF-β are ubiquitously expressed in both normal and neoplastic tissue [35]. Activation of HIF-1 is mediated by several factors including changes in overall O2 content, an up regulation of inflammatory factors, activation of several signaling pathways, and in the case of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) it is induced by VHL dysfunction [35,36,37]. HIF-1 trafficking to the nucleus causes the activation of several hundreds of genes, which either directly or indirectly play a role in tumor cell migration and survival [38,39,40]. One of these HREs is the gene expressing CA IX.

4. CA IX Expression in Normal vs. Neoplastic Tissue

In a non-disease state CA IX expression is limited to the gut epithelium; specifically, the basolateral surfaces of the cryptic enterocytes of the duodenum, jejunum and ileum [41]. The most prominent levels of CA IX are seen in these proliferating crypt cells suggesting CA IX may be involved in intestinal stem cell proliferation and regulation of certain metabolic functions [42].
Northern blot and immunohistochemical staining have also confirmed CA IX expression in the ovarian coelomic epithelium, cells of hair follicles, pancreatic ductal cells and fetal rete testis [43,44]. In addition high levels of CA IX are observed in developing embryonic tissues of the gut, lung and skeletal muscle and decrease in adult tissues [43]. These observations indicate CA IX expression is primarily associated with areas of low pH and high rates of cell proliferation in normal tissues. Whether or not this makes CA IX a regulatory element in normal tissues has not been confirmed.
CA IX is ectopically expressed in a variety of neoplastic tissues. Expression has been observed in malignancies of the breast, lung, kidney, colon/rectum, cervix uteri, oral cavity (head/neck), gallbladder, liver, brain (high-grade), pancreas, and gastric epithelium [31,43,44]. A list of the differential expression patterns of CA IX in normal and neoplastic tissue is presented in Figure 2. No differences exist between the cDNA of CA IX isolated from normal and tumor tissues, which implies similar physiological function in both tissues. As mentioned previously, CA IX expression depends on HIF-1 activation (via the upregulation of HIF-1α or the down regulation of VHL). Specifically, the activation of the HIF-1 mediated pathway that induces CA IX expression can be due to a reduction in cellular O2 levels, an activation of signaling pathways via the presents of growth factors and inflammatory response elements, and in some cases due to mutations in the tumor suppressor, VHL as seen in cases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) where CA IX is homogenously expressed [27]. More recently, CA IX has shown to have significant expression levels in stromal cells that are engaged in a molecular cross-talk circuitry with cancer cells. Specifically, CA IX has been shown to be expressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) via redox-based stabilization of HIF-1. It is postulated that expression of CA IX in CAFs provides the acidic extracellular environment necessary to drive epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) in adjacent cancer cells [45]. Summation of these findings indicates CA IX as a diagnostic marker of events of tumor hypoxia in many solid tumors [43].
CA IX expression levels also serve as prognostic markers for several cancer types. Specifically, patients suffering from brain, breast, cervical, rectal or lung cancer that also display high levels of CA IX typically show a poorer prognosis. In contrast, for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) patients low CA IX levels indicate poor clinical outcome [16,27,31]. CA IX’s contribution to maintaining the hypoxic tumor microenvironment is highly correlated to patient prognosis thus making it both a biomarker and drug target [27].
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Figure 2. CA IX expression in adult human tissue. Note that (*) indicates high-grade tumor tissues.
Figure 2. CA IX expression in adult human tissue. Note that (*) indicates high-grade tumor tissues.
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5. Structural Homology among Human CAs

The 15 human CA isoforms expressed are CA I, II, III, VA, VB, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, and XV, of which 12 display catalytic activity. CA VIII, X and XI are non-catalytic and are termed CA related proteins (CA-RPs) [10]. Apart from differences in catalytic efficiency among the active isoforms they also differ in cellular distribution and localization, and as a result are involved in various physiological processes [10,18,29]. Furthermore, aberrant expression of the enzymes is commonly associated with a host of diseases. These include: glaucoma (CA II, IV), cancer (CA IX, XII), edema (CA II), sterility (CA XIII), altitude sickness (CA II), obesity (CA VA) and hemolytic anemia (CA I) [29,46].
The alpha-class of CAs are highly homologous inferring that they also have overlapping functional roles. The human CAs share at least 30% primary sequence identity among themselves with major of conservation within the active sites of all the catalytic isoforms [23]. The active site is located at the bottom of a conical cavity where a zinc ion is positioned in a tetrahedral coordination with three histidine residues and a water/hydroxide molecule [47]. The catalytic domain of CAs is also characterized by conserved hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions adjacent to the entrance to the active site. Figure 3 highlights the similarities and differences between CA II and CA IX in and around the active site. The high amino acid conservation existing among the human isoforms has made it difficult to design isoform specific CA inhibitors (CAIs) targeting CA IX that exhibit limited off-target effects [48].
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Figure 3. Surface rendition of CA IX (PDB ID: 3IAI). Residues in the hydrophobic (red) and hydrophilic (blue) cleft are as labeled; residues conserved (white) and those that differ (yellow) between CA II and CA IX. Figure made using PyMol [28].
Figure 3. Surface rendition of CA IX (PDB ID: 3IAI). Residues in the hydrophobic (red) and hydrophilic (blue) cleft are as labeled; residues conserved (white) and those that differ (yellow) between CA II and CA IX. Figure made using PyMol [28].
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6. Improving Classic CAIs

CAIs have been extensively studied and their inhibition mechanisms are well established [49]. Sulfonamide-based compounds are the most potent and most utilized among the CAI classes. These compounds bind to the zinc ion via a sulfonamide as the zinc-binding group (ZBG) in a deprotonated form displacing the zinc bound water/hydroxide molecule while still maintaining the tetrahedral coordination about the zinc ion [29,49] (Figure 1B). Though some sulfonamides display inhibition constants in the sub-nanomolar range for CA IX, these also inhibit other CAs. This is due to the conserved architecture of the active site among the human CAs. For all the catalytic human CAs, the three histidines coordinating the zinc, Thr 199 (CA II numbering; termed the “gatekeeper”), and Glu 106 are conserved [21]. Both T199 and E106 play roles in catalysis [30,50]. T199 hydrogen bonds to the zinc bound water/hydroxide via its OH group, while E106 hydrogen bonds to T199 [51] (Figure 4).
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Figure 4. The active site of CA II (PDB ID: 3KS3). The zinc ion is represented by a grey sphere and is coordinated by His 94, 96 and 119, and a H2O/OH− molecule. The zinc bound H2O/OH− binds at a distance of 1.9 Å away from the zinc ion. Water (W) are represented by red spheres while hydrogen bonds (H-bonds, Å) are represented by dotted lines. This figure was made using PyMol [28].
Figure 4. The active site of CA II (PDB ID: 3KS3). The zinc ion is represented by a grey sphere and is coordinated by His 94, 96 and 119, and a H2O/OH− molecule. The zinc bound H2O/OH− binds at a distance of 1.9 Å away from the zinc ion. Water (W) are represented by red spheres while hydrogen bonds (H-bonds, Å) are represented by dotted lines. This figure was made using PyMol [28].
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Small molecular weight CAIs that utilize a ZBG tend to bind deep into the active site cavity and do not make extensive interactions with amino acids that vary between the CA isoforms, thus contributing to their indiscriminatory inhibition profiles. As a result, alternative approaches have been developed for better isoform specific CAIs, with the “tail-approach” being one of the most successful. In the “tail approach” a chemical moiety (known as the tail) is appended onto an organic scaffold of a ZBG (for example heterocyclic or aromatic) [29,49]. This tail elongates the inhibitor allowing it to make extensive interactions with amino acids towards the outside of the active site. The addition of these tails can also alter the properties of the CAI, for example making it more soluble by the addition of a tail that is hydrophilic in nature, or manipulating the overall charge of the compound; such as cationic CAIs. The use of structure-based drug design has proven a valuable technique to exploit the subtle differences existing between the active site of the various isoforms. For example, utilizing steroidal based sulfonamides as lead compounds has led to the development of several similar CAIs that are able to exploit CA IX’s larger hydrophobic pocket by increasing the number of hydrophobic interactions via van der Waals contacts [27].
Despite the promise of structural exploitation of the CA IX active site to improve upon current and novel CAIs, the expression and crystallization of wild type CA IX has been an arduous challenge and thus made it difficult to carry out extensive structural analysis. As such our group has engineered a CA IX-mimic, which is a modified CA II (an enzyme that is routinely expressed and crystallized) that contains active site mutations specific to CA IX. This has provided a useful template to rapidly analyze and predict modes of binding of CAIs to CA IX [52,53]. Structural analysis of several CAIs has made it possible to design drugs that exhibit both location specific targeting and “prodrug like” properties that have shown to be useful in selectively inhibiting CA IX. These approaches will be discussed in more detail in the following sections.
Apart from the development of small-molecule inhibitors, CA IX specific antibodies and their conjugates have also been engineered with some currently in Phase III clinical trials (RECENARX®). M75 and G250 are two such monoclonal antibodies that recognize the enzymes proteoglycan domain [54,55]. Upon binding to CA IX these antibodies cause a reduction in tumor cell adhesion and motility, and induce natural killer cells to target tumor cells for eradication [20,25,56]. The development of monoclonal antibodies with high binding affinity eliminates the problem of off-target effects commonly encountered in CAI drug design [57]. Both antibodies have been extensively reviewed (see reference [7,20,57]) and therefore we will not discuss these therapies in detail. However in this review we will expand on utilization of such antibodies as delivery mechanisms targeted cancer therapeutics.

7. Location Specific Small-Molecule Inhibitors Target CA IX

The extracellular location of the active site of CA IX presents an alternative method of targeting the enzyme in tumor cells [20,23,25]. Specifically, CAIs can be designed that have physiochemical properties that allow them to be impermeable to the plasma membrane; hence decreasing the chance of inhibiting off-target cytosolic CAs observed by classic CAIs [23] (Figure 5A). This presents a drug design strategy that incorporates location specific targeting of CA IX rather than exploiting differences in inhibition profiles alone. To date several compounds that show limited membrane permeability have been synthesized and designed. Such compounds utilize bulky chemical moieties, such as in albumin-acetazolamide, or exploit charged moieties in the form of fluorescently labeled sulfonamides or cationic sulfonamide derivatives [7,58,59,60,61] (Figure 5B–D, respectively). The design of such CAIs employ essentially two distinct rationales: (1) high molecular weight compounds that are simply too bulky to cross the plasma membrane, or (2) a cationic moiety that is incapable of permeating into the reduced cytosolic environment [62,63]. Despite both types of compounds showing favorable inhibition and membrane impermeability, the use of cationic sulfonamides has shown to be the more feasible option for drug development since high molecular weight compounds often induce potent allergic reactions and reduced bioavailability in vivo [60,64,65]. As a result several cationic sulfonamides have been developed using quaternary ammonium sulfate (QAS) as a lead compound, or fluorescently labeled sulfonamide derivatives [7,23,58,59,60,61,64,66].
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Figure 5. CAIs designed to target the extracellular CA domain of CA IX as compared to classic inhibitors. (A) Classic (B) Bulky (C) Fluorescent (D) Cationic sulfonamides (E) Glycoconjugates all show extensive differences in terms of CA IX specific targeting potential.(Figure was adapted from [67] and made using PyMol [28] and ChemDraw [68] software packages).
Figure 5. CAIs designed to target the extracellular CA domain of CA IX as compared to classic inhibitors. (A) Classic (B) Bulky (C) Fluorescent (D) Cationic sulfonamides (E) Glycoconjugates all show extensive differences in terms of CA IX specific targeting potential.(Figure was adapted from [67] and made using PyMol [28] and ChemDraw [68] software packages).
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Glycoconjugated sulfonamides, a more recent class of CAIs, have shown to exhibit both membrane impermeability and isoform selective inhibition of CA IX [52,53,69,70,71,72] (Figure 5E). These particular CAIs utilize benzene sulfonamides, sulfonamides, or cyclic secondary sulfonamides conjugated to a mono- or disaccharide tail [66,69,73]. The design of these CAIs was through the influence of the clinically used Topiramate (anti-epileptic therapeutic) [66,69,73]. Most likely the reason these compounds do not permeate into the cell is due to their high molecular weights, and the addition of a sugar moiety that is not easily transported [69,70,71]. Furthermore, unlike previously used bulky sulfonamide derivatives, the addition of a sugar moiety allows these CAIs to maintain water-solubility, and thus maintain good bioavailability [69,70,73]. Another promising aspect is that these CAIs show an impressive inhibition profile, with a >1000-fold selectivity for CA IX over CA II in some cases [52,53,70]. Also, the carbohydrate attachment presents an area of manipulation on these CAIs where cleavable ester bonds can be added to the carbonyls of the carbohydrate tail allowing the CAI to be “packaged” in the form of a prodrug [70]. Although these compounds present great promise in terms of developing a drug for CA IX, the use of carbohydrate moieties poses a potential dilemma. That is, the use of a carbohydrate, specifically a monosaccharide, might unintentionally interact with glucose transporters, similar to statins, in which myotoxicity was observed [72,74]. However, this notion has not been tested. Interestingly, a way to circumvent such an issue would be the development of sucrose-based conjugates that would have no interactions with specific transporters due to the lack of sucrose transporters in human tissue [71]. Interestingly, the current disaccharide-conjugates that have been developed into CAIs utilize a galactose moiety and show stronger inhibition for CA II versus CA IX [69]. Although these compounds will not enter the cytosol, they may not bind to CA IX tightly enough to be considered a valid drug candidate. However, utilization of other disaccharide-based compounds, such as the suggested sucrose-conjugate mentioned previously, might show higher inhibition for CA IX, and thus present a CAI that is selective for CA IX in both location specificity and direct inhibition.

8. Taking Advantage of “Prodrug” Properties to Inhibit CA IX

Prodrugs represent ~20% of all approved drugs since the early 2000s [75]. As such various types of prodrugs, or potential prodrugs exist that target the tumor microenvironment in either an active or passive approach. Active Prodrugs rely on either the present of esterases, or in the case of anti-cancer drugs, the upregulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteases, such as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) or urokinase-type plasminogen activators (uPAs) (all are upregulated by HIFs), to become unmasked [76]. For instance doxorubicin, a common chemotherapeutic agent, can be conjugated with a peptide specific substrate or antigen recognized by the aforementioned ECM proteases and unmask when reaching its tumor targets [76,77]. This provides a tissue-specific approach to active prodrug delivered chemotherapies and reduce off-target effects.
Alternatively, passive prodrugs are unmasked when introduced to the hypoxic tumor microenvironment. As mentioned previously, the hypoxic tumor microenvironment has both reduced pH and O2. These microenvironmental conditions unmask passive prodrugs by (1) protonation by the slightly acidic pH, or (2) reduction via the absence of adequate O2 in the environment [76]. For example, utilization of ligands with coordination metal complexes that are redox capable have been implemented as prodrugs to target tumor microenvironments. Straplatin, an oxidized analog of the common chemotherapeutic cisplatin, is synthesized with a less biologically reactive Pt(IV) coordination center, and when introduced to the reduced tumor microenvironment Pt(IV) reduces to Pt(II) causing an interaction with adjacent tumor cells by the same mechanism as cisplatin [76]. Similarly imidazotetrazine prodrugs have shown to be clinical useful as adjuvant cancer therapies coupled with radiation treatment [78]. These compounds take advantage of the slightly acidic microenvironment via a complex mechanism of action. They are first processed at physiological or slight alkaline pH forming intermediates. Once these intermediates have formed they can be protonated by the acidic tumor microenvironment causing an unmasking of the compound that allows for direct interaction with methylated DNA initiating a tumor cell killing response [78].
CAIs that exhibit “prodrug-like” properties exists in the form of fluorescently-labeled sulfonamides, coumarin derivatives, glycoconjugates, and even photo-triggered compounds [7,59,60,62,71,79,80,81]. Not surprisingly, the first prodrug CAIs developed were not specifically designed to target CA IX. Instead most prodrug CAIs were designed to target CA II for treatment of glaucoma [81,82,83,84]. One of the most interesting of these compounds utilizes a water-soluble photolabile cage that masks a hydrophobic sulfonamide compound that is a potent inhibitor of CA II [82]. In its unmasked form, the compound is a very poor CA II inhibitor. Once delivered however, the compound can be unmasked after photoexposure and becomes a potent CA II inhibitor [78]. The first prodrug CAIs designed to target CA IX were developed by De Simone, et al. [85]. These compounds act as passive prodrugs via unmasking by the hypoxic niche. These CAIs utilize a sulfonamide derivative containing a reducible chemical moiety of dithiodi-aliphatic/aromatic acyl halides [86]. The masked forms of these CAIs contain a disulfide-linked bond that can be reduced by the tumor microenvironment to form thiol derivatives that are potent CAIs (Figure 6A). Interestingly, along with being reduced chemically by the tumor microenvironment studies have shown they can also be reduced enzymatically by thioredoxin-1 [85]. The most promising compound of this type, 4-(2-mercaptophenylcarboxamido) benzenesulfonamide, shows close to µM affinity for CA IX in its inactive state, and when unmasked the affinity increases ~60-fold for CA IX [85]. However there have been no studies that speculate on the membrane permeability of these compounds; hence they may still produce off-target inhibition in vivo. Similar CAIs include fluorescently labeled sulfonamides that were original designed to track CA IX expression in tumor cells. Serendipitously it was shown these compounds act as passive prodrugs by showing high affinity for CA IX once they enter the hypoxic tumor microenvironment [59,61]. In addition (as mentioned previously) these CAIs are membrane impermeable [7,59,62]. Carbamoylphosphonates are another class of CAIs that act as passive prodrugs and show good bioavailability. These CAIs utilize the slightly acidic tumor microenvironment for unmasking. In neutral pH these CAIs remain readily permeable to the plasma membrane. Once entering the acidic tumor milieu they become ionized and are membrane impermeable [70]. In addition, once ionized Carbamoylphosphonates show increased CA IX inhibition [70,87].
Active prodrug CAIs rely on either ubiquitously expressed esterases or the weak esterase activity exhibited by CA to be unmasked [63,75,76,80,88]. Such compounds include coumarins and thiocoumarins. These compounds undergo hydrolysis via the Zn-OH− to form a 2-hydroxycinnamic acid product that binds irreversibly to the entrance of the active site of CA IX [7,59,60,80,87]. Unlike sulfa-based CAIs these compounds, in their hydrolyzed form, do not interact with the catalytic zinc. More interestingly, these compounds exhibit the highest isoform selective CA inhibition profile compared to all CAIs, such that the hydrolyzed product interacts directly with CA IX specific residues found in the hydrophobic and hydrophilic pockets [59,79]. Alternatively, the glyococonjugate compounds mentioned previously can as act as prodrugs (Figure 6B). These CAIs also rely on esterase activity to exhibit their CA inhibitory properties [76]. The general construct of these inhibitors is (1) a sugar moiety at the tail region of the compound, (2) a 1,2,3-triazole moiety, and (3) a benzene sulfonamide group to act as the primary ZBG [70]. The carbohydrate moiety acts as the site of prodrug masking/unmasking where acyl groups occupy carbonyls of the sugar forming cleavable ester bonds. The addition of acyl groups allows the compound to be readily transported across the plasma membrane and exhibit poor CA inhibition. Once these ester bonds are cleaved the compound will exhibit the opposing characteristics [69,70]. So far, two sugar moieties have been utilized for these CAIs; glucose and galactose. Interestingly, compounds containing a glucose moiety not only show the highest membrane impermeability when unmasked but also exhibit a higher affinity for CA IX over other CAs [70]. The galactose-conjugated compounds however do not show a good inhibitory profile for CA IX over other CAs, and in some cases were better inhibitors of CA II [70]. In addition, these compounds are water-soluble which has the potential to increase their bioavailability, however in vivo studies are still necessary to conclude these remarks [69,70]. Despite the lack of in vivo data available for such compounds, so far their potential as drug candidates remains very hopeful.
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Figure 6. Prodrug CAIs. (A) Passive prodrug CAIs (4-(2-mercaptophenylcarboxamido) benzenesulfonamide) utilizes the microenvironmental changes to become unmasked. (B) Active prodrug CAIs require the presence of esterase activity either from ubiquitous esterases or the weak esterase activity of CAs to become unmasked.
Figure 6. Prodrug CAIs. (A) Passive prodrug CAIs (4-(2-mercaptophenylcarboxamido) benzenesulfonamide) utilizes the microenvironmental changes to become unmasked. (B) Active prodrug CAIs require the presence of esterase activity either from ubiquitous esterases or the weak esterase activity of CAs to become unmasked.
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9. Using CA IX as a Cell-Surface Receptor to Deliver Anti-Cancer Therapeutics

In addition to targeting CA IX directly for anti-cancer treatments, alternative routes utilize the antigenic properties of the enzyme as a means to deliver therapeutic payloads directly to the tumor site. This is possible due to both the cell-surface location of CA IX and its over expression in various tumor types [89,90]. This makes delivery of antibodies or small-molecule inhibitors favorable. As discussed these attributes have already been utilized in the form of antibody targeting [54] and non-permeable small-molecule inhibitors [60,64,73] in order to target CA IX directly to induce an anti-tumorigenic response. However coupling a CA IX-specific targeting mechanism with a routinely administered anti-cancer therapy creates a tumor-specific delivery system that will allow for localized treatment of cancerous tissues. One such mechanism uses what is referred to as CA IX-directed immunoliposomes [89,91]. Liposomes have been commonly used for drug delivery, especially in oncology due their good biocompatibility, low toxicity, and low immunogenicity [89,92]. CA IX-directed immunoliposomes utilize a CA IX-specific antibody conjugated to a liposome carrier of an anti-cancer therapeutic that, upon binding of the antibody region to CA IX, can be taken up by the tumor cell. Currently this technology has been used to deliver liposomes carrying submicron magnetic particles to renal cell carcinoma tissue for use in hyperthermal treatments [91], and more recently to deliver liposomes carrying docetaxel (a commonly used chemotherapeutic) to be delivered to lung carcinoma cells [89]. In both cases a CA IX-directed immunolipsome system was able to facilitate tumor specific delivery of the therapeutic agent.
As an alternative of utilizing an antibody-based targeting system to deliver cytoxic payloads to tumor cells, low molecular weight ligands have been used for the same purpose [90,93]. Utilization of small-molecules to target CA IX for delivery of anti-cancer therapeutics has advantages over using antibodies, as they exhibit deeper tissue penetration, faster pharmacokinetics, lower immunogenicity, and they are able to be produced by total organic synthesis expediting their production [93]. Recently, the utility of this technology to target tumor cells has been shown using ligand conjugates consisting of either a bivalent small-molecule or a ligand-dye conjugate specific for CA IX linked to maytansinoid DM1 (a potent cytotoxic agent) via cleavable disulfide bonds [90,93]. In each case, CA IX-specific ligands conjugated to DM1 were able to specifically target tumor tissue and deliver the cytotoxic agent [90,93]. Results from these studies facilitate a use for combining the aforementioned strategies of CA IX selective drug development to applications of conventionally used anti-cancer therapies. Utilizing CA IX selective small-molecule inhibitors as delivery vectors for therapeutic agents could potentially provide novel approach to targeted cancer therapy.

10. RNAi Mediated Knockdown of CA IX as a Means to Abolish the Hypoxic Tumor Milieu

So far, we have discussed the potential ways to modulate CA IX activity via several small molecule CAIs. However, the extensive data concerning the physiological role of CA IX in solid tumors suggests that its primary function may go beyond pH regulation [7,27,62]. In addition it has been observed that physiological functions of CA IX vary between different types of primary tumors. This suggests that simply blocking CA activity in hypoxic tumors may not fully disrupt the tumor milieu in a way that can be detrimental to the overall tumors growth and survival. Therefore, complete eradication of CA IX expression in hypoxic tumors may be a more beneficial therapeutic tactic than targeting its activity only. A feasible way to therapeutically knockdown CA IX expression in tumors is through the use of RNA interference (RNAi) technology, which has already been implemented for the treatment of several diseases including cancer [94].
The mechanism of RNAi utilizes the endogenous miRNA pathway that regulates protein expression by posttranscriptional gene silencing [94,95]. The general pathway of miRNA (and also siRNA) biogenesis occurs via transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNA pol II) in the nucleus to form what is called the pri-miRNA, which exhibits a hairpin loop structure [96]. This pri-miRNA is further processed by RNase III Drosha into a ~60-80 nt-long precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA) that is also stabilized by a loop structure. The pre-miRNA can then be exported from the nucleus via Exportin 5 (Exp5). Once in the cytosol the pre-miRNA hairpin stem region is cleaved by Dicer to form a ~22 nt-long miRNA-miRNA duplex (or siRNA-siRNA) [94,96]. The duplex miRNA-miRNA is than incorporated into what is known as the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) which functions to degrade on of the miRNA duplex strands (known as the passenger strand) and further escorts and incorporates the remaining miRNA into its mRNA target sequence [94]. At this point events of translational repression, enhanced mRNA degradation, or site-specific mRNA cleavage can occur [94,96].
Efficient siRNAs are designed to completely integrate at specific locations on an mRNA target sequence by exact base complementation and induce complete mRNA degradation at that specific region [94]. A key difference between endogenous miRNA mediated silencing and utilization of short-hairpin (shRNA) constructs is that shRNA are typically incorporated downstream of the Drosha processing pathway, and without alteration can be exported to the cytosol and further processed by Dicer to form viable siRNA [94,96]. Both shRNA and pri-miRNA constructs have been designed and successfully delivered to target cells via viral-vector transduction or a liposomal delivery systems [94,97,98]. The advantage of packaging of siRNA in either a viral or liposomal delivery system is that it allows for increased longevity of the siRNA in vivo, and also allows for circumvention of problems associated with the innate immune response [94].
There are currently several therapeutic siRNAs in Phase I or II clinical trials, with a large percentage focused on targeting different forms of cancer [94]. Interestingly, none of these siRNA therapeutics utilize a viral-vector delivery system despite the advances made in the field of gene therapy. Although there are several viral-vectors that have shown therapeutic potential, one that has gained the most interest is adeno-associated virus (AAV), a single-stranded parvovirus [99]. AAV holds many promising attributes for gene delivery such as its ability to naturally infect primates, it is nonpathogenic, and its ability to be engineered in a recombinant form (rAAV) that lacks rep and cap genes making its delivered DNA almost completely episomal [94,99]. The packaging capacity of AAV is 4.7 kb, which is often regarded as a disadvantage depending on the gene target. However this is of no concern in terms of RNAi-based applications [100]. As such there have been several rAAV serotypes engineered that successfully transduce a wide range of tumors or cancer cells in preclinical studies [99,101,102,103,104,105,106,107]. Further, RNAi mediated technology has already shown its utility in preclinical studies involving treatments of blindness and Huntington’s disease among others [94,108,109,110]. This type of progress suggests that AAV-mediated delivery of siRNA may play a pivotal role in cancer therapies in the near future.
Several studies involving modulation of CA IX expression in several types of cancer models utilize RNAi technology. For instance, specific siRNA technology has been used to modulate CA IX expression in liver, breast, kidney, brain, prostate and several other cancer types [20,44,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118]. The successful knockdown of CA IX via siRNA mediation has shown to reduce primary tumor growth and proliferation in breast cancer models and also enhance effects of hexokinase inhibitors, promising compounds for treatment of liver cancer [112,113,115]. The few examples presented in this review suggests that combining RNAi technology to knockdown CA IX with a viral-vector delivery system may present a novel cancer therapy to inhibit tumor growth and proliferation. A model illustrating a proposed mechanism of AAV-delivered siRNA targeting CA IX expression is illustrated in Figure 7. This mode of therapy could act as an alternative to developing isoform selective CAIs in certain cancers where modulations in CA IX activity may not contribute greatly in disrupting tumor function (i.e., liver cancers) [20,118]. However, much more research is needed to conclude the use of RNAi technology to knockdown CA IX via an AAV delivery system. Overall the plethora of data available in both fields can produce an exciting new method for treating aggressive cancers.
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Figure 7. Pathway of AAV-mediated siRNA delivery to target CA expression in a tumor cell. The siRNA construct is delivered via a transduced AAV vector and its episome is trafficked to the nucleus. Within the nuclease the episomal DNA is transcribed by RNA pol II to produce a pre-shRNA construct that is further processed and transported to the cytosol where it becomes an siRNA duplex. The siRNA duplex is then processed by RISC and escorted to the specific mRNA region encoding for CA IX. Once bound, via complementary base-pairing, the CA IX mRNA is degraded and expression of CA IX is abolished. (This figure was adapted from [116] and AAV3B; PDB ID: 3KIC [117]).
Figure 7. Pathway of AAV-mediated siRNA delivery to target CA expression in a tumor cell. The siRNA construct is delivered via a transduced AAV vector and its episome is trafficked to the nucleus. Within the nuclease the episomal DNA is transcribed by RNA pol II to produce a pre-shRNA construct that is further processed and transported to the cytosol where it becomes an siRNA duplex. The siRNA duplex is then processed by RISC and escorted to the specific mRNA region encoding for CA IX. Once bound, via complementary base-pairing, the CA IX mRNA is degraded and expression of CA IX is abolished. (This figure was adapted from [116] and AAV3B; PDB ID: 3KIC [117]).
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11. Targeting CA IX as a Combinatorial Treatment for Cancer; Future Perspectives

Treating cancer typically requires the use of several therapeutic strategies such as surgery, radiation therapy, and/or chemotherapies [118]. Often therapies must be combined due to efficacy of one preceding the other. For example surgery and radiation therapy, although effective in a vast majority of cases, present limitations in that they can only target confined local regions of neoplastic tissue and are not effective at treating highly metastatic cancer cases [118]. At this stage combinations of multiple chemotherapeutics are usually employed in an attempt to kill cancer cells that have migrated from the primary tumor site. Furthermore, highly aggressive and hypoxic tumors often develop resistance to radiation and certain chemotherapies, or are inoperable; hence alternative or combinations of chemotherapeutics are the only method of treatment available in these particular cases [119,120,121]. This feature of hypoxia and its association with resistance to radiation and chemotherapies has been observed in several cancer types [121,122,123,124,125,126,127]. This is most likely due to several factors including a reduction in overall O2 content making the generation of free-radicals needed for radiation therapy extremely difficult, the reduced extracellular pH disrupting functions of alkylating agents, and an upregulation of drug-resistance factors induced by HIFs [1,27]. CA IX, has been linked to cases of therapeutic resistance for several cancers, and is often used as a biomarker for radiation resistance [20,67,120,128,129,130]. As such evidence suggests that a downregulation or inhibition of CA IX allows for an increase in radiation and chemosensitivity in tumors, indicating its potential use as a combinatorial therapy [7,27,118,126,127].
Although the mechanism is not clear, it is proposed that disruption of the differential pH in the tumor miliue and abolishing key regulatory functions of CA IX causes tumor susceptibility to chemo- and radiation-therapies [27]. Despite the unknown mechanism by which CA IX can induce such susceptibility to chemo- or radiation-treatments in once resistance tumors, this observation suggests that CAIs or siRNAs that target CA IX can be used as combinatorial therapies with either radiation or chemotherapy. In addition, recent studies showing that CA IX selective inhibitors can be conjugated to cytotoxic agents suggest that both chemoresistance and tumorigenicity can be combatted using one single agent. This has the potential to not only give patients increased treatment options for aggressive cancer types, but also presents the potential of increasing patient survival rates due to a counter treatment for resistance tumors. Certainly more clinical research is needed to prove that these concepts can be implemented. Overall this presents an exciting way to increase current cancer therapies by use of inhibiting a generic cancer target.

Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health grants GM25154 and CA165284.

Author Contributions

All three authors contributed to the writing of this review.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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