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Tang J, Liu J, He X, Fu S, Wang K, Li C, Li Y, Zhu Y, Gong P, Zhao Y, Liu Y, Hou Y. Design and Synthesis of 1,3,5-Triazines or Pyrimidines Containing Dithiocarbamate Moiety as PI3Kα Selective Inhibitors. ACS Med Chem Lett 2023; 14:1266-1274. [PMID: 37736169 PMCID: PMC10510507 DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.3c00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Recent studies have shown that phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) plays a vital role in cell division, and it has become a therapeutic target for many cancers. In this paper, some new 1,3,5-triazine or pyrimidine skeleton derivatives containing dithiocarbamate were designed and synthesized based on the reasonable drug design strategy from the previously effective compound 2-(difluoromethyl)-1-[4,6-di(4-morpholinyl)-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]-1H-benzimidazole (ZSTK-474), in order to get effective selective PI3Kα inhibitors that have not been reported in the literature. In addition, the inhibitory activities of these compounds on PI3Kα and two tumor cell lines in vitro (HCT-116, U87-MG) were evaluated. The representative compound 13 showed a half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) value of 1.2 nM for PI3Kα and an exciting kinase selectivity. Compound 13 displayed strong efficacy in HCT-116 and U87-MG cell lines with IC50 values of 0.83 and 1.25 μM, respectively. In addition, compound 13 induced obvious tumor regression in the U87-MG cell line xenografts mouse model, with no obvious signs of toxicity after intraperitoneal injection at a dose of 40 mg/kg. Compound 13 can be an effective selective inhibitor of PI3Kα, and it provides patients with an opportunity to avoid the side effects related to the wider inhibition of the class I PI3K family.
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang 110016, China
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Trawally M, Demir-Yazıcı K, İpek Dingis-Birgül S, Kaya K, Akdemir A, Güzel-Akdemir Ö. Dithiocarbamates and dithiocarbonates containing 6-nitrosaccharin scaffold: Synthesis, antimycobacterial activity and in silico target prediction using ensemble docking-based reverse virtual screening. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.134818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Development of S-aryl dithiocarbamate derived novel antiproliferative compound exhibiting tubulin bundling. Bioorg Med Chem 2022; 68:116874. [PMID: 35716589 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2022.116874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cancer is a leading cause of human death, and there is a need to identify efficient and novel chemical scaffolds which could provide flexibility to cancer chemotherapeutics. This work introduces S-aryl dithiocarbamates belonging to a versatile group of organo-sulfur containing compounds as a hitherto unexplored class of effective anticancer drugs with promising pharmacophore properties. We synthesized a series of N-Boc piperazine containing S-aryl dithiocarbamates and identified compound 1 as a potent antiproliferative agent in lung, cervical, and breast cancer cell lines. Compound 1 exhibited best inhibitory activity against cervical cancer cells, HeLa with an IC50 of 0.432 ± 0.138 μM for 72 h, and lung cancer cells, A549 with an IC50 of 0.447 ± 0.051 μM for 72 h. We further demonstrate that HeLa cells treated with this compound result in G2/M phase cell cycle arrest, causing cell apoptosis due to the upregulation of the p53-p21 signaling pathway. Importantly, cells treated with compound 1 showed a novel tubulin bundling phenotype in fluorescence microscopy, which is a characteristic of microtubule-stabilizing anticancer drugs like paclitaxel. Interestingly, molecular docking analysis revealed reasonable binding of compound 1 in the taxol-binding pocket of β-tubulin, making it a promising candidate for microtubule stabilization based anticancer drug discovery.
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In silico data mining of large-scale databases for the virtual screening of human interleukin-2 inhibitors. ACTA PHARMACEUTICA (ZAGREB, CROATIA) 2021; 71:33-56. [PMID: 32697741 DOI: 10.2478/acph-2021-0002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is involved in the activation and differentiation of T-helper cells. Uncontrolled activated T cells play a key role in the pathophysiology by stimulating inflammation and autoimmune diseases like arthritis, psoriasis and Crohn's disease. T cells activation can be suppressed either by preventing IL-2 production or blocking the IL-2 interaction with its receptor. Hence, IL-2 is now emerging as a target for novel therapeutic approaches in several autoimmune disorders. This study was carried out to set up an effective virtual screening (VS) pipeline for IL-2. Four docking/scoring approaches (FRED, MOE, GOLD and Surflex-Dock) were compared in the re-docking process to test their performance in producing correct binding modes of IL-2 inhibitors. Surflex-Dock and FRED were the best in predicting the native pose in its top-ranking position. Shapegauss and CGO scoring functions identified the known inhibitors of IL-2 in top 1, 5 and 10 % of library and differentiated binders from non-binders efficiently with average AUC of > 0.9 and > 0.7, resp. The applied docking protocol served as a basis for the VS of a large database that will lead to the identification of more active compounds against IL-2.
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Dutta S, Saha A. Aryldithiocarbamates as thiol alternatives in Cu-catalyzed C(aryl)-S coupling reactions using aryldiazonium tetrafluoroborate salts. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:9360-9366. [PMID: 31620766 DOI: 10.1039/c9ob01976f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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An efficient method for the synthesis of unsymmetrical diaryl sulfides has been developed by the C-S cross coupling of aryldithiocarbamates and aryldiazonium salts in the presence of CuI-2,2'-bipyridine and Zn. Aryldithiocarbamate compounds have been used here as thiol substitutes. The protocol shows wide substrate scope and good yields of the products.
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- Soumya Dutta
- Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India.
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Laskar S, Sánchez-Sánchez L, Flores SM, López-Muñoz H, Escobar-Sánchez ML, López-Ortiz M, Hernández-Rodríguez M, Regla I. Identification of (1S,4S)-2,5-diazabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-dithiocarbamate-nitrostyrene hybrid as potent antiproliferative and apoptotic inducing agent against cervical cancer cell lines. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 146:621-635. [PMID: 29407986 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2017] [Revised: 12/17/2017] [Accepted: 01/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The present study seeks to describe the design and synthesis of six new Michael adducts of (1S,4S)-2,5-diazabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-dithiocarbamate with nitrostyrenes and their in vitro antiproliferative activity against human cervical cancer cell lines [HeLa (HPV 18 positive), CaSki (HPV 16 positive) and ViBo (HPV negative) cervical cancer cell lines]. Virtual screening of the physicochemical properties of all compounds have also been presented. All the compounds exploited significant antiproliferative activity on the three cervical cancer cell lines. Compound 8a was found to be most potent, displaying in vitro antiproliferative activity against HeLa, CaSki and ViBo cervical cancer cell lines superior to Cisplatin and Paclitaxel with IC50 values 0.99 ± 0.007, 2.36 ± 0.016 and 0.73 ± 0.002 μM respectively. In addition, compound 8a did not trigger the necrosis cell death to the test cancer cell lines. Further mechanistic study revealed that compound 8a could inhibit the cancer cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis through caspase-3 activation. Moreover, cell cycle analysis indicated that compound 8a could arrest the cell cycle at the G1 phase for HeLa and CaSki cancer cells. At the predetermined IC50 values on cancer cells, compound 8a did not induce any necrotic (cytotoxic) death to the normal human lymphocytes. In the present design, (1S,4S)-2,5-diazabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane system was found to be superior than the piperazine counterpart 11.
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- Sujay Laskar
- Lab. de Síntesis de Fármacos, Laboratorio 9 UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa 09230, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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- Lab. Biología Molecular del Cáncer, Laboratorio 2 PB UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa 09230, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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- Lab. de Síntesis de Fármacos, Laboratorio 9 UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa 09230, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Lab. Biología Molecular del Cáncer, Laboratorio 2 PB UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa 09230, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Lab. Microscopía Electrónica, Depto. Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Cd. Universitaria, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Lab. de Síntesis de Fármacos, Laboratorio 9 UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa 09230, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Lab. de Síntesis de Fármacos, Laboratorio 9 UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ejercito de Oriente, Iztapalapa 09230, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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Khan KM, Mesaik MA, Abdalla OM, Rahim F, Soomro S, Halim SA, Mustafa G, Ambreen N, Khalid AS, Taha M, Perveen S, Alam MT, Hameed A, Ul-Haq Z, Ullah H, Rehman ZU, Siddiqui RA, Voelter W. The immunomodulation potential of the synthetic derivatives of benzothiazoles: Implications in immune system disorders through in vitro and in silico studies. Bioorg Chem 2016; 64:21-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2015.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Revised: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Halim SA, Zaheer-ul-Haq. Structure based 3D-QSAR studies of Interleukin-2 inhibitors: Comparing the quality and predictivity of 3D-QSAR models obtained from different alignment methods and charge calculations. Chem Biol Interact 2015; 238:9-24. [PMID: 26051521 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2015.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Revised: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Interleukin-2 is an essential cytokine in an innate immune response, and is a promising drug target for several immunological disorders. In the present study, structure-based 3D-QSAR modeling was carried out via Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA) and Comparative Molecular Similarity Index Analysis (CoMSIA) methods. Six different partial charge calculation methods were used in combination with two different alignment methods to scrutinize their effects on the predictive power of 3D-QSAR models. The best CoMFA and CoMSIA models were obtained with the AM1 charges when used with co-conformer based substructure alignment (CCBSA) method. The obtained models posses excellent correlation coefficient value and also exhibited good predictive power (for CoMFA: q(2)=0.619; r(2)=0.890; r(2)Pred=0.765 and for CoMSIA: q(2)=0.607; r(2)=0.884; r(2)Pred=0.655). The developed models were further validated by using a set of another sixteen compounds as external test set 2 and both models showed strong predictive power with r(2)Pred=>0.8. The contour maps obtained from these models better interpret the structure activity relationship; hence the developed models would help to design and optimize more potent IL-2 inhibitors. The results might have implications for rational design of specific anti-inflammatory compounds with improved affinity and selectivity.
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- Sobia Ahsan Halim
- Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan; National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 53700, Pakistan.
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- Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
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Mesaik MA, Khan KM, Rahim F, Taha M, Haider SM, Perveen S, Khalid AS, Abdalla OM, Soomro S, Voelter W. Synthetic indole Mannich bases: Their ability to modulate in vitro cellular immunity. Bioorg Chem 2015; 60:118-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2015.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Revised: 05/01/2015] [Accepted: 05/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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El-Nassan HB. Synthesis and antitumor activity of tetrahydrocarbazole hybridized with dithioate derivatives. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem 2014; 30:308-15. [PMID: 24899376 DOI: 10.3109/14756366.2014.922554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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- Hala Bakr El-Nassan
- Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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Gellan gum nanohydrogel containing anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs: a multi-drug delivery system for a combination therapy in cancer treatment. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2014; 87:208-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2013.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2013] [Revised: 10/28/2013] [Accepted: 11/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Identification of novel Interleukin-2 inhibitors through computational approaches. Mol Divers 2013; 17:345-55. [PMID: 23494734 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-013-9431-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2012] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Interleukin-2 (IL-2), is a 15.5-kDa cytokine that is now emerging as a target in drug discovery for novel therapeutic approaches in several autoimmune disorders. In an attempt to identify new inhibitors for the IL-2/IL-2R interaction, virtual screening (VS) was performed. Four different docking programs (GOLD, FlexX, Glide, and LigandFit) in combination with several scoring functions were used to identify novel IL-2/IL-2R interaction inhibitors.VSof a database of 6,000compounds resulted in the identification of three novel and moderately active hits with IC50 values ranging from 6.6 to 44.3 μM. Furthermore, the effect of these three compounds on the expression of IL-2Rα was assessed. The three active hits showed dose-dependent inhibitory effects on the expression of IL-2Rα with an IC50 range of 5.8 to 140μM. The cytotoxicity of these active hits was assessed using three normal cell-lines: bovine kidney cell-line (MDBK), mouse fibroblast cell-line (3T3), and rat hepatocytes cell-line (CC-1).Thecompoundswere found to have negligible cytotoxicity compared to their IC50 as IL-2/IL-2R interaction inhibitors. These results demonstrate that our VS protocol can identify novel inhibitors for IL-2/IL-2R interaction that effectively suppress IL-2 production, as well as the expression of IL-2Rα. Optimization of these molecules could lead to improved and effective anti-inflammatory therapeutics.
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