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Xu XL, Lan JX, Huang H, Dai W, Peng XP, Liu SL, Chen WM, Huang LJ, Liu J, Li XJ, Zeng JL, Huang XH, Zhao GN, Hou W. Synthesis, biological activity and mechanism of action of novel allosecurinine derivatives as potential antitumor agents. Bioorg Med Chem 2023; 82:117234. [PMID: 36906964 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2023.117234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
Abstract
Cancer with low survival rates is the second main cause of death among all diseases in the world and consequently, effective antineoplastic agents are urgently needed. Allosecurinine is a plant-derived indolicidine securinega alkaloid shown bioactivity. The object of this study is to investigate synthetic allosecurinine derivatives with considerable anticancer capacity against nine human cancer cell lines as well as mechanism of action. We synthesized twenty-three novel allosecurinine derivatives and evaluated their antitumor activity against nine cancer cell lines for 72 h by MTT and CCK8 assays. FCM was applied to analyze the apoptosis, mitochondrial membrane potential, DNA content, ROS production, CD11b expression. Western blot was selected to analyze the protein expression. Structure-activity relationships were established and potential anticancer lead BA-3 which induced differentiation of leukemia cells towards granulocytosis at low concentration and apoptosis at high concentration was identified. Mechanism studies showed that mitochondrial pathway mediated apoptosis within cancer cells with cell cycle blocking was induced by BA-3. In addition, western blot assays revealed that BA-3 induced expression of the proapoptotic factor Bax, p21 and reduced the levels of antiapoptotic protein such as Bcl-2, XIAP, YAP1, PARP, STAT3, p-STAT3, and c-Myc. Collectively, BA-3 was a lead compound for oncotherapy at least in part, through the STAT3 pathway. These results were an important step in further studies on allosecurinine-based antitumor agent development.
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- Xin-Liang Xu
- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Public Health and Health Management, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Rehabilitation, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- HuanKui Academy, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China
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- College of Pharmacy, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou 341000, PR China.
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E. Ali T, A. Assiri M. Regioselective Synthesis of Some Novel Phosphonopyrazole, Phosphonopyrimidine and Phosphonodiazepine Compounds Containing Coumarin Ring. HETEROCYCLES 2022. [DOI: 10.3987/com-22-14685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Heiran R, Sepehri S, Jarrahpour A, Digiorgio C, Douafer H, Brunel JM, Gholami A, Riazimontazer E, Turos E. Synthesis, docking and evaluation of in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of novel morpholine capped β-lactam derivatives. Bioorg Chem 2020; 102:104091. [PMID: 32717692 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Revised: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
This study reports the synthesis and biological investigation of three series of novel monocyclic β-lactam derivatives bearing a morpholine ring substituent on the nitrogen. The resulting β-lactam adducts were synthesized via Staudinger's [2 + 2]-ketene-imine cycloaddition reaction. New synthesized products were fully characterized by spectral data and elemental analyses, and then evaluated for anti-inflammatory activity toward human inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cytotoxicity toward HepG2 cell line. The compounds 3e, 3h, 3k, 5c, 5f, 6c, 6d and 6f showed higher activity with anti-inflammatory ratio values of 38, 62, 51, 72, 51, 35, 55 and 99, respectively, in comparison to the reference compound dexamethasone having an anti-inflammatory ratio value of 32. Hence, these compounds can be considered as potent iNOS inhibitors. They also exhibited IC50 values of 0.48 ± 0.04 mM, 0.51 ± 0.01 mM, 0.22 ± 0.02 mM, 0.12 ± 0.00 mM, 0.25 ± 0.05 mM, 0.82 ± 0.07 mM, 0.44 ± 0.04 mM and 0.60 ± 0.04 mM, respectively, in comparison with doxorubicin (IC50 < 0.01 mM) against HepG2 cells, biocompatibility and nontoxic behavior. In silico prediction of drug-likeness characteristic indicated that the compounds are compliant with the Lipinski and Veber rules. Molecular docking experiments showed a good correlation between the experimental activity and the calculated binding affinity to human inducible nitric oxide synthase, the enzymatic target for the anti-inflammatory response.
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- Roghayeh Heiran
- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, 71454 Shiraz, Iran; Department of Chemistry, Estahban Higher Education Center, Estahban, Iran.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, 71454 Shiraz, Iran.
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, IMBE UMR 7263, Laboratoire de Mutagénèse Environnementale, 13385 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, SSA, MCT, Marseille, France
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Center for Molecular Diversity in Drug Design, Discovery, and Delivery, Department of Chemistry, CHE 205, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 USA
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da Silveira Pinto LS, Vasconcelos TRA, Gomes CRB, de Souza MVN. A Brief Review on the Development of Novel Potentially Active Azetidin-2-ones Against Cancer. CURR ORG CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.2174/1385272824666200303115444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Azetidin-2-ones (β-lactams) and its derivatives are an important group of heterocyclic compounds that exhibit a wide range of pharmacological properties such as antibacterial, anticancer, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory and anticonvulsant. Efforts have been made over the years to develop novel congeners with superior biological activities and minimal potential for undesirable side effects. The present review aimed to highlight some recent discoveries (2013-2019) on the development of novel azetidin-2-one-based compounds as potential anticancer agents.
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- Ligia S. da Silveira Pinto
- Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Quimica, Departamento de Quimica Organica, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Quimica. Outeiro de Sao Joao Batista, s/no, Centro, Niteroi, 24020-141, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Quimica, Departamento de Quimica Organica, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Quimica. Outeiro de Sao Joao Batista, s/no, Centro, Niteroi, 24020-141, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Farmacos-Farmanguinhos. Rua Sizenando Nabuco 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Farmacos-Farmanguinhos. Rua Sizenando Nabuco 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Zhang X, Jia Y. Recent Advances in β-lactam Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Agents. Curr Top Med Chem 2020; 20:1468-1480. [PMID: 32148196 DOI: 10.2174/1568026620666200309161444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Cancer, accounts for around 10 million deaths annually, is the second leading cause of death globally. The continuous emergency of drug-resistant cancers and the low specificity of anticancer agents are the main challenges in the control and eradication of cancers, so it is imperative to develop novel anticancer agents. Immense efforts have been made in developing new lead compounds and novel chemotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of various forms of cancers in recent years. β-Lactam derivatives constitute versatile and attractive scaffolds for the drug discovery since these kinds of compounds possess a variety of pharmacological properties, and some of them exhibited promising potency against both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cancer cell lines. Thus, β-lactam moiety is a useful template for the development of novel anticancer agents. This review will provide an overview of β-lactam derivatives with the potential therapeutic application for the treatment of cancers covering articles published between 2000 and 2020. The mechanisms of action, the critical aspects of design and structureactivity relationships are also discussed.
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- Xinfen Zhang
- Department of Oncology, Zhuji Affiliated Hospital of Shaoxing University, Zhejiang Province 311800, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Engineering, Chongqing 400056, China
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