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Ni W, Song H, Wang L, Liu Y, Wang Q. Design, Synthesis and Various Bioactivity of Acylhydrazone-Containing Matrine Analogues. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28104163. [PMID: 37241904 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28104163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Compounds with acylhydrazone fragments contain amide and imine groups that can act as electron donors and acceptors, so they are easier to bind to biological targets and thus generally exhibit significant biological activity. In this work, acylhydrazone fragments were introduced to the C-14 or C-11 position of matrine, a natural alkaloid, aiming to enhance their biological activities. The result of this bioassay showed that many synthesized compounds exhibited excellent anti-virus activity against the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). Seventeen out of 25 14-acylhydrazone matrine derivatives and 17 out of 20 11-butanehydrazone matrine derivatives had a higher inhibitory activity against TMV than the commercial antiviral agent Ribavirin (the in vitro activity, in vivo inactivation, curative and protection activities at 500 µg/mL were 40.9, 36.5 ± 0.9, 38.0 ± 1.6 and 35.1 ± 2.2%, respectively), and four 11-butanehydrazone matrine derivatives even had similar to or higher activity than the most efficient antiviral agent Ningnanmycin (55.4, 57.8 ± 1.4, 55.3 ± 0.5 and 60.3 ± 1.2% at 500 µg/mL for the above four test modes). Among them, the N-benzyl-11-butanehydrazone of matrine formed with 4-bromoindole-3-carboxaldehyde exhibited the best anti-TMV activity (65.8, 71.8 ± 2.8, 66.8 ± 1.3 and 69.5 ± 3.1% at 500 µg/mL; 29, 33.5 ± 0.7, 24.1 ± 0.2 and 30.3 ± 0.6% at 100 µg/mL for the above four test modes), deserving further investigation as an antiviral agent. Other than these, the two series of acylhydrazone-containing matrine derivatives were evaluated for their insecticidal and fungicidal activities. Several compounds were found to have good insecticidal activities against diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) and mosquito larvae (Culex pipiens pallens), showing broad biological activities.
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- Wanjun Ni
- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Nadar S, Khan T. Pyrimidine: An elite heterocyclic leitmotif in drug discovery-synthesis and biological activity. Chem Biol Drug Des 2022; 100:818-842. [PMID: 34914188 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.14001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Heterocyclic compounds bearing the pyrimidine core are of tremendous interest as they constitute an important class of natural and synthetic compounds exhibiting diverse useful biological activities that hold attractive potential for clinical translation as therapeutic agents in alleviation of a myriad of diseases. Heterocycles possessing a pyrimidine scaffold have piqued tremendous interest of organic and medicinal chemists owing to their privileged bioactivities. Drugs having the pyrimidine motif have manifested to exhibit gratifying biological activity like anticancer, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antihypertensive activities. This heterocycle, being a significant endogenous component of the body, the pyrimidine derivatives can easily interact with enzymes, genetic materials, and bio components within the cell. The landscape of FDA approved drugs, presently marketed incorporating the pyrimidine scaffold continues to evolve in number and diversity. There is a tremendous surge in discovery of new targets across many diseases especially those involving emerging resistance to clinically used battery of drugs. Pyrimidine scaffolds will continue to be explored expanding their chemical space portfolio in an effort to find novel drugs impacting these targets. This review aims to provide an elaborate recapitulation of the recent trends adopted to synthesize propitious pyrimidine incorporated hits and also focuses on the clinical significance reported for functionalized pyrimidine analogues that would quintessentially aid medicinal chemists for new research explorations in this arena.
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- Sahaya Nadar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, SVKM's Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Quality Assurance, SVKM's Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, India
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Ni W, Wang L, Song H, Liu Y, Wang Q. Synthesis and Evaluation of 11-Butyl Matrine Derivatives as Potential Anti-Virus Agents. Molecules 2022; 27:7563. [PMID: 36364389 PMCID: PMC9658933 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27217563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Matrine derivatives were reported to have various biological activities, especially the ester, amide or sulfonamide derivatives of matrine deriving from the hydroxyl or carboxyl group at the end of the branch chain after the D ring of matrine is opened. In this work, to investigate whether moving away all functional groups from the C-11 branch chain could have an impact on the bioactivities, such as anti-tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), insecticidal and fungicidal activities, a variety of N-substituted-11-butyl matrine derivatives were synthesized. The obtained bioassay result showed that most N-substituted-11-butyl matrine derivatives had obviously enhanced anti-TMV activity compared with matrine, especially many compounds had good inhibitory activity close to that of commercialized virucide Ningnanmycin (inhibition rate 55.4, 57.8 ± 1.4, 55.3 ± 0.5 and 60.3 ± 1.2% at 500 μg/mL; 26.1, 29.7 ± 0.2, 24.2 ± 1.0 and 27.0 ± 0.3% at 100 μg/mL, for the in vitro activity, in vivo inactivation, curative and protection activities, respectively). Notably, N-benzoyl (7), N-benzyl (16), and N-cyclohexylmethyl-11-butyl (19) matrine derivatives had higher anti-TMV activity than Ningnanmycin at both 500 and 100 μg/mL for the four test modes, showing high potential as anti-TMV agent. Furthermore, some compounds also showed good fungicidal activity or insecticidal activity.
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Research Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Li Y, Zhang Y, Niu T, Pang Y, Shi Y, Zen Q, Zhang J, Zhu J, Zhong X, Wang Y, Wang Y, Tang S, Kong W, Song D, Jiang J. Discovery and development of tricyclic matrinic derivatives as anti-diabetic candidates by AMPKα activation. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.05.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cai XH, Zhang HY, Xie B. Matrine-Family Alkaloids: Versatile Precursors for Bioactive Modifications. Med Chem 2021; 16:431-453. [PMID: 31378199 DOI: 10.2174/1573406415666190507121744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Matrine-family alkaloids as tetracycloquinolizindine analogues from Traditional Chinese Medicine Sophora flavescens Ait, Sophora subprostrata and Sophora alopecuroides L possess various pharmacological activities and have aroused great interests over the past decades. Especially, a lot of matrine derivatives have been designed and synthesized and their biological activities investigated, and encouraging results have continuously been achieved in recent several years. These studies are helpful to develop more potent candidates or therapeutic agents and disclose their molecular targets and mechanisms. This paper reviews recent advances in the bioactive modifications of matrine-family alkaloids from derivatization of the C-13, C-14 or C-15 position, opening D ring, fusing D ring and structural simplification.
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- Xiao-Hua Cai
- School of Chemical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China
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Design and Synthesis of Molecular Hybrids of Sophora Alkaloids and Cinnamic Acids as Potential Antitumor Agents. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25051168. [PMID: 32150948 PMCID: PMC7179170 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25051168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Twenty-five sophora alkaloids-cinnamic acid hybrids (including matrine-cinnamic acid hybrids, sophoridine-cinnamic acid hybrids, and sophocarpine-cinnamic acid hybrids) were designed, synthesized, and evaluated in vitro against three human tumor cell lines (HeLa, HepG2 and A549) with cisplatin as a positive control. Some matrine-cinnamic acid and sophoridine-cinnamic acid compounds exhibited potent effect against all three cancer cell lines, such as compounds 5b, 5e, 5g, and 6d. The structure-activity relationship study of the synthesized compounds was also performed. Preliminary mechanistic studies indicated that compounds 5e and 6d could induce apoptosis in HepG2 cell line. Further, compounds 5e and 6d altered mitochondrial membrane potential and produced ROS leading to cell apoptosis of HepG2 cells. Overall, our findings suggested that these compounds may provide promising lead compounds for further development as antitumor agents by structural modification.
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Niu T, Zhao X, Jiang J, Yan H, Li Y, Tang S, Li Y, Song D. Evolution and Biological Evaluation of Matrinic Derivatives with Amantadine Fragments As New Anti-Influenza Virus Agents. Molecules 2019; 24:E921. [PMID: 30845734 PMCID: PMC6429159 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24050921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A series of novel tricyclic matrinic derivatives with 11-adamantyl substitution were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for their activities against Influenza A H3N2 virus, based on the privileged structure strategy. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis indicated that the introduction of an 11-adamantyl might be helpful for the potency. Among them, compounds 9f and 9j exhibited the promising anti-H3N2 activities with IC50 values of 7.2 μM and 10.2 μM, respectively, better than that of lead 1. Their activities were further confirmed at the protein level. Moreover, compound 9f displayed a high pharmacokinetic (PK) stability profile in whole blood and a safety profile in vivo. In primary mechanism, compound 9f could inhibit the virus replication cycle at early stage by targeting M2 protein, consistent with that of the parent amantadine. This study provided powerful information for further strategic optimization to develop these compounds into a new class of anti-influenza agents.
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- Tianyu Niu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Anti-infective Agents, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 10005, China.
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel tricyclic matrinic derivatives as potential anti-filovirus agents. Acta Pharm Sin B 2018; 8:629-638. [PMID: 30109186 PMCID: PMC6089848 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2018.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Twenty-six novel tricyclic sophoridinic and matrinic derivatives containing a common chlorinated benzene fragment were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their anti-ebolavirus (EBOV) activities. Structure-activity relationship analysis indicated: (i) 12N-dichlorobenzyl motif was beneficial for the activity; (ii) the chiral configuration at C5 atom might not affect the activity much. Among the target compounds, compound 7d exhibited the most potent potency against EBOV with an IC50 value of 5.29 μmol/L and an SI value of over 37.8. Further in vivo anti-EBOV assay of 7d identified its high effectiveness, and in vivo anti-MARV assay of 7d suggested its inspiring broad-spectrum anti-filovirus activity. The results provided powerful information on further strategic optimization and development of this kind of compounds against filoviruses.
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Discovery and evolution of aloperine derivatives as novel anti-filovirus agents through targeting entry stage. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 149:45-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.02.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Revised: 02/18/2018] [Accepted: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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