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Bangay G, Brauning FZ, Rosatella A, Díaz-Lanza AM, Domínguez-Martín EM, Goncalves B, Hussein AA, Efferth T, Rijo P. Anticancer diterpenes of African natural products: Mechanistic pathways and preclinical developments. PHYTOMEDICINE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOTHERAPY AND PHYTOPHARMACOLOGY 2024; 129:155634. [PMID: 38718637 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2024.155634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Revised: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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BACKGROUND The African continent is home to five biodiversity hotspots, boasting an immense wealth of medicinal flora, fungi and marine life. Diterpenes extracted from such natural products have compelling cytotoxic activities that warrant further exploration for the drug market, particularly in cancer therapy, where mortality rates remain elevated worldwide. PURPOSE To demonstrate the potential of African natural products on the global stage for cancer therapy development and provide an in-depth analysis of the current literature on the activity of cancer cytotoxic diterpenes from African natural sources (to our knowledge, the first of its kind); not only to reveal the most promising candidates for clinical development, but to demonstrate the importance of preserving the threatened ecosystems of Africa. METHODS A comprehensive search by means of the PRISMA strategy was conducted using electronic databases, namely Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar and ScienceDirect. The search terms employed were 'diterpene & mechanism & cancer' and 'diterpene & clinical & cancer'. The selection process involved assessing titles in English, Portuguese and Spanish, adhering to predefined eligibility criteria. The timeframe for inclusion spanned from 2010 to 2023, resulting in 218 relevant papers. Chemical structures were visualized using ChemDraw 21.0, PubChem was utilized to search for CID numbers. RESULTS Despite being one of the richest biodiverse zones in the world, African natural products are proportionally underreported compared to Asian countries or otherwise. The diterpenes andrographolide (Andrographis paniculata), forskolin (Coleus forskohlii), ent-kauranes from Isodon spp., euphosorophane A (Euphorbia sororia), cafestol & kahweol (Coffea spp.), macrocylic jolkinol D derivatives (Euphorbia piscatoria) and cyathane erinacine A (Hericium erinaceus) illustrated the most encouraging data for further cancer therapy exploration and development. CONCLUSIONS Diterpenes from African natural products have the potential to be economically significant active pharmaceutical and medicinal ingredients, specifically focussed on anticancer therapeutics.
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- Gabrielle Bangay
- Center for Research in Biosciences & Health Technologies (CBIOS), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal; Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Facultad de Farmacia, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Farmacología; Nuevos agentes antitumorales, Acción tóxica sobre células leucémicas). Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona km. 33,600 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, España
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- Center for Research in Biosciences & Health Technologies (CBIOS), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Center for Research in Biosciences & Health Technologies (CBIOS), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Facultad de Farmacia, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Farmacología; Nuevos agentes antitumorales, Acción tóxica sobre células leucémicas). Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona km. 33,600 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, España
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- Center for Research in Biosciences & Health Technologies (CBIOS), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal; Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Facultad de Farmacia, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Farmacología; Nuevos agentes antitumorales, Acción tóxica sobre células leucémicas). Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona km. 33,600 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, España
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- Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Chemistry Department, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Symphony Rd., Bellville 7535, South Africa
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Center for Research in Biosciences & Health Technologies (CBIOS), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal; Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal.
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Sekhon I, Chen G, Piri K, Shinkawa S, Ashong D, Zhang Q, Wang G, Chen QH. Tricyclic Diterpenoids Selectively Suppress Androgen Receptor-Positive Prostate Cancer Cells. Molecules 2023; 28:4743. [PMID: 37375297 PMCID: PMC10300971 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28124743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 06/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Androgen receptor (AR) is a viable therapeutic target for lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), because the continued progression of CRPC is mainly driven by the reactivation of AR transcriptional activity. The current FDA-approved AR antagonists binding to ligand binding domain (LBD) become ineffective in CRPC with AR gene amplification, LBD mutation, and the evolution of LBD-truncated AR splice variants. Encouraged by the fact that tricyclic aromatic diterpenoid QW07 has recently been established as a potential N-terminal AR antagonist, this study aims to explore the structure-activity relationship of tricyclic diterpenoids and their potential to suppress AR-positive cell proliferation. Dehydroabietylamine, abietic acid, dehydroabietic acid, and their derivatives were selected, since they have a similar core structure as QW07. Twenty diterpenoids were prepared for the evaluation of their antiproliferative potency on AR-positive prostate cancer cell models (LNCaP and 22Rv1) using AR-null cell models (PC-3 and DU145) as comparisons. Our data indicated that six tricyclic diterpenoids possess greater potency than enzalutamide (FDA-approved AR antagonist) towards LNCaP and 22Rv1 AR-positive cells, and four diterpenoids are more potent than enzalutamide against 22Rv1 AR-positive cells. The optimal derivative possesses greater potency (IC50 = 0.27 µM) and selectivity than QW07 towards AR-positive 22Rv1 cells.
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- Inderpal Sekhon
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and RCMI Cancer Research Center, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and RCMI Cancer Research Center, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
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Xin C, Zhang Y, Zhao M, Wang Z, Cheng C. Polyditerpene acid from Pinus koraiensis pinecones inhibits the progression of hepatocarcinoma. ARAB J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2021.103069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Synthesis and high antiproliferative activity of dehydroabietylamine pyridine derivatives in vitro and in vivo. Biochem J 2020; 477:2383-2399. [PMID: 32497169 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20200337] [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: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Several bioactive dehydroabietylamine Schiff-bases (L1-L4), amides (L5-L11) and complex CuL3(NO3)2, Cu(L5)3, Co(L6)2Cl2 had been synthesized successfully for developing more efficient but lower toxic antiproliferative compounds. Their antiproliferative activities to Hela (cervix), HepG2 (liver), MCF-7 (breast), A549 (lung) and HUVEC (umbilical vein, normal cell) were investigated in vitro. The toxicity of all compounds was less than dehydroabietylamine (L0). For HepG2 cells, L1, L2 and L3 had higher anti-HepG2 activity, especially L1 (0.52 µM) had highest anti-HepG2 activity but low toxicity. For MCF-7 cells, L1, L2, L3 and L4 had higher anti-MCF-7 activity, especially L3(0.49 µM) had highest anti-MCF-7 activity but low toxicity. For A549 cells, L2 and L3 had higher anti-A549 activity. Furthermore, L1 and L3 may be the great promise antiproliferative drugs with nontoxic side effects, due to the high anti-HepG2 and anti-MCF-7 inhibition rate in vivo, 65% and 61%, respectively. L1, L2 and L3 could induce apoptosis through intercalating into DNA.
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Zhao F, Sun X, Lu W, Xu L, Shi J, Yang S, Zhou M, Su F, Lin F, Cao F. Synthesis of novel, DNA binding heterocyclic dehydroabietylamine derivatives as potential antiproliferative and apoptosis-inducing agents. Drug Deliv 2020; 27:216-227. [PMID: 31984809 PMCID: PMC7034089 DOI: 10.1080/10717544.2020.1716879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 01/05/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Several dehydroabietylamine derivatives containing heterocyclic moieties such as thiophene and pyrazine ring were successfully synthesized. The antiproliferative activities of these thiophene-based Schiff-bases, thiophene amides, and pyrazine amides were investigated in vitro against Hela (cervix), MCF-7 (breast), A549 (lung), HepG2 (liver), and HUVEC (umbilical vein) cells by MTT assay. The toxicity of L1-L10 (IC50 = 5.92- >100 μM) was lower than L0 (1.27 μM) and DOX (4.40 μM) in every case. Compound L1 had higher anti-HepG2 (0.66 μM), anti-MCF-7 (5.33 μM), and anti-A549 (2.11 μM) and compound L3 had higher anti-HepG2 (1.63 μM) and anti-MCF-7 (2.65 μM) activities. Both of these compounds were recognized with high efficiency in apoptosis induction in HepG2 cells and intercalated binding modes with DNA. Moreover, with average IC50 values of 0.66 and 5.98 μM, L1 was nine times more effective at suppressing cultured HepG2 cells viability than normal cells (SI = 9). The relative tumor proliferation rate (T/C) was 38.6%, the tumor inhibition rate was up to 61.2%, which indicated that L1 had no significant toxicity but high anti-HepG2 activity in vivo. Thus, it may be a potential antiproliferation drug with nontoxic side effects.
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- Fengyi Zhao
- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry
in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR
China
- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
- College of Information Science and Technology,
Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry
in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR
China
- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing
Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing
Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing
Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing
Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry
in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR
China
- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry
University, Nanjing, PR China
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Liu HC, Qiao LM, Zheng W, Xiang ZB, Chen HS, Yu SC, Zhang DZ, Wang T, Zhang YF, Jin YS. Synthesis and Cytotoxicity Assessment of Novel 7-O- and 14-O-Derivatives of Glaucocalyxin A. Anticancer Agents Med Chem 2020; 20:1241-1249. [PMID: 32116205 DOI: 10.2174/1871520620666200302114550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 02/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Rabdosia japonica has been historically used in China as a popular folk medicine for the treatment of cancer, hepatitis, and gastricism. Glaucocalyxin A (GLA), an ent-kaurene diterpene isolated from Rabdosia japonica, is one of the main active ingredients showing potent inhibitory effects against several types of tumor cells. To the best of our knowledge, studies regarding the structural modification and Structure- Activity Relations (SAR) of this compound have not yet been reported. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to discover more potent derivatives of GLA and investigate their SAR and cytotoxicity mechanisms. METHODS Novel 7-O- and 14-O-derivatives of GLA were synthesized by condensation of acids or acyl chloride. The anti-tumor activities of these derivatives against various human cancer cell lines were evaluated in vitro by MTT assays. Apoptosis assays of compound 17 (7,14-diacylation product) were performed on A549 and HL-60 cells by flow cytometry and TUNNEL. The acute toxicity of this compound was tested on mice, at the dose of 300mg per kg body weight. RESULTS Seventeen novel 7-O- and 14-O-derivatives of GLA (1-17) were synthesized. These compounds showed potent cytotoxicity against the tested cancer cell lines, and almost all of them were found to be more cytotoxic than GLA and oridonin. Of the synthesized derivatives, compound 17 presented the greatest cytotoxicity, with IC50 values of 0.26μM and 1.10μM in HL-60 and CCRF-CEM cells, respectively. Furthermore, this compound induced weak apoptosis of A549 cells but showed great potential in stimulating the apoptosis of HL- 60 cells. Acute toxicity assays indicated that compound 17 is relatively safer. CONCLUSION The results reported herein indicate that the synthesized GLA derivatives exhibited greater cytotoxicity against leukemia cells than against other types of tumors. In particular, 7,14-diacylation product of GLA was found to be an effective anti-tumor agent. However, the cytotoxicity mechanism of this product in A549 cells is expected to be different than that in other tumor cell lines. Further research is needed to confirm this hypothesis.
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- Hong-Chuan Liu
- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, the 72nd Group Army Hospital of PLA, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province 313000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine Research of Chongqing Education Commission, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, 400067, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Optically pure chiral copper(II) complexes of rosin derivative as attractive anticancer agents with potential anti-metastatic and anti-angiogenic activities. Eur J Med Chem 2019; 176:175-186. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.05.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Chen H, Xing Y, Xie J, Xie J, Xing D, Tang J, Yang F, Yi Z, Qiu WW. Synthesis and biological evaluation of 3-nitro-4-chromanone derivatives as potential antiproliferative agents for castration-resistant prostate cancer. RSC Adv 2019; 9:33794-33799. [PMID: 35528914 PMCID: PMC9073653 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06420f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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A series of novel 3-nitro-4-chromanones were synthesized and their in vitro cytotoxicity was evaluated on castration-resistant prostate cancer cell (CRPC) lines using the sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay. The amide derivatives showed more potent antitumor activity than their corresponding ester derivatives. Most of the tested compounds showed less toxicity towards human fibroblasts (HAF) compared with the tumor cell lines. The optimal compound 36 possessed much more potent antiproliferative activity than the positive compound cisplatin. The colony formation, cell cycle distribution, apoptosis, transwell migration and wound healing assays of 36 were performed on CRPC cell lines. A series of novel 3-nitro-4-chromanones were synthesized and their in vitro cytotoxicity was evaluated on castration-resistant prostate cancer cell lines.![]()
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- Huiqing Chen
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
- East China Normal University
- Shanghai
- China
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Zhao F, Lu W, Su F, Xu L, Jiang D, Sun X, Shi J, Zhou M, Lin F, Cao F. Synthesis and potential antineoplastic activity of dehydroabietylamine imidazole derivatives. MEDCHEMCOMM 2018; 9:2091-2099. [PMID: 30746067 PMCID: PMC6336084 DOI: 10.1039/c8md00487k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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To seek more efficient and lower toxicity anticancer compounds, several imidazole combining dehydroabietylamine derivatives including organic salts (L 1 -L 2 ) and amides (L 3 -L 5 ) were synthesized. Their antineoplastic activity against HeLa (cervix), MCF-7 (breast), A549 (lung) and HepG2 (liver) cells and HUVECs (umbilical vein, normal cells) in vitro were evaluated by MTT assay. The results unequivocally showed that nearly all compounds had better antineoplastic activity and lower toxicity than dehydroabietylamine (L 0 ). For MCF-7 cells, L 2 (0.75 μM) and L 5 (2.17 μM) had higher anti-MCF-7 activity than L 0 and DOX. For A549 cells, L 1 (1.85 μM) and L 2 (4.37 μM) had higher anti-A549 activity than L 0 ; in particular, the IC50 value of L 1 was much lower than that of DOX. Among these investigated compounds, L 2 and L 5 had lower IC50 values (0.75 μM and 2.17 μM) against MCF-7 cells and lower toxicity, which suggested that they may be potential future anticancer drugs. In addition, L 1 and L 2 could suppress cancer cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis. L 1 -L 5 could bind with DNA through intercalation.
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- Fengyi Zhao
- College of Forestry , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China .
- College of Science , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- College of Science , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- College of Science , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
- Co-Innovation Centre for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China , Nanjing Forestry University , China
- Sate Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources , Guangxi Normal University , Guilin 541001 , PR China
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- College of Science , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
- College of Information Science and Technology , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- College of Science , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China
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- College of Forestry , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , PR China .
- Co-Innovation Centre for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China , Nanjing Forestry University , China
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Yang LF, Xing Y, Xiao JX, Xie J, Gao W, Xie J, Wang LT, Wang J, Liu M, Yi Z, Qiu WW. Synthesis of Cyanoenone-Modified Diterpenoid Analogs as Novel Bmi-1-Mediated Antitumor Agents. ACS Med Chem Lett 2018; 9:1105-1110. [PMID: 30429953 DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Bmi-1 is overexpressed in colorectal cancer (CRC) and served as a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of CRC. A series of novel cyanoenone-modified diterpenoid analogs was synthesized and investigated for their antiproliferative activity against CRC cells. The results showed that most of these compounds exhibited potent antiproliferative and Bmi-1 inhibitory activity. Among them, the most active compound 33 (SH498) showed more potent antiproliferative activity than the positive control compound PTC-209. These synthetic diterpenoid analogs were less toxic for normal human fibroblasts (HAF) than for CRC cells. Especially 33, its selectivity index (SI) between HAF and tumor cells was 7.3-13.1, which was much better than PTC-209. The polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) complex, transwell migration, colony formation, cancer stem cell proliferation, and apoptosis assays of 33 were performed on CRC cell lines. The in vivo antitumor effect of 33 was also observed in HCT116 tumor-bearing mice.
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- Lian-Fang Yang
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Zhao F, Wang W, Lu W, Xu L, Yang S, Cai XM, Zhou M, Lei M, Ma M, Xu HJ, Cao F. High anticancer potency on tumor cells of dehydroabietylamine Schiff-base derivatives and a copper(II) complex. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 146:451-459. [PMID: 29407970 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.01.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Revised: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Five bioactive dehydroabietylamine Schiff-base derivatives (L1-L5) had been synthesized from Dehydroabietylamine (L0), and the complex Cu(L1)2 had been obtained from the compound L1 and copper(II) acetate. Their activities against Hela (cervix), MCF-7 (breast), A549 (lung), HepG2 (liver) and HUVEC (umbilical vein, normal cell) in vitro were investigated. The toxicity of L1-L5 and Cu(L1)2 was all lower than L0. For MCF-7 cell, L1, L3, L4, L5 and Cu(L1)2 had higher antitumor activity than L0. The smallest IC50 value was 2.58 μM of L5. For A549 cell, the IC50 value of the compound L4 was smaller than L0, which indicated that the compound L4 had higher anti-A549 activity than L0. For HepG2 cell, the IC50 value of L4(0.24 μM) and L5 (0.14 μM) were much smaller than L0, which suggested L4 and L5 had higher anti-HepG2 activity. L5 was 180 times more effective at inhibiting cultured HepG2 cells survival than normal cells, with average IC50 values of 0.14 and 25.56 μM. Furthermore, L0, L4 and L5 contrasting with Doxorubicin had been measured with the ability to induce apoptosis. It turned out that L4 and L5 could induce more HepG2 cells apoptosis, which suggested they may be potential antitumor drugs.
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- Fengyi Zhao
- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China; Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China; College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China; Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China; Sate Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541001, PR China.
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- Advanced Analysis and Testing Center, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China
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- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, PR China; Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, PR China.
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Mao G, Li Q, Deng C, Wang Y, Ding Y, Zhang W, Chen Y, Zhao T, Wei F, Yang L, Wu X. The synergism and attenuation effect of Selenium (Se)-enriched Grifola frondosa (Se)-polysaccharide on 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu) in Heps-bearing mice. Int J Biol Macromol 2018; 107:2211-2216. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.10.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Revised: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 10/14/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In this paper, a new and concise synthetic route of lithocholic acid (LCA) using commercially available steroid source deoxycholic acid is reported. A series of amide derivatives of LCA were also synthesized and investigated for their activity against the growth of MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cells using the sulforhodamine B assay. For MCF-7, the most potent compound 20 showed a 20-fold higher antitumor activity than LCA. For MCF-7/ADR, the most potent compound 24 showed a 22-fold higher antitumor activity than LCA. The transwell migration assay of 20 was evaluated on MDA-MB-231 cells. The colony formation and apoptosis assays of 20 were performed on MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cell lines.
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- Xiao-Long He
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department of Research and Development, Jiangsu Jiaerke Pharmaceuticals Group Co Ltd., Zhenglu Town, Changzhou 213111, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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Wang D, Fang Y, Wang H, Xu X, Liu J, Zhang H. Synthesis and evaluation of novel F-18-labeled pyrimidine derivatives: potential FAK inhibitors and PET imaging agents for cancer detection. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra28851k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Compound [18F]-8a exhibited good in vivo biodistribution data in mice bearing S180 tumor. And the microPET imaging study of [18F]-8a in S180 tumor-bearing mice was also preformed, which illustrated that the uptake in S180 tumor at 60 min post-injection of [18F]-8a was obvious.
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- Dawei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals of Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals of Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals of Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals of Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals of Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
- People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals of Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
- People's Republic of China
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