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Shakoor A, Alam A, Jan F, Khan M, Ali M, Ullah S, Khan A, AlAsmari AF, Alasmari F, Al-Ghafri A, Al-Harrasi A. Novel benzimidazole derivatives as effective inhibitors of prolyl oligopeptidase: synthesis, in vitro and in silico analysis. Future Med Chem 2024; 16:43-58. [PMID: 38054466 DOI: 10.4155/fmc-2023-0267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Background: This research aims to discover novel derivatives having potential therapeutic applications in treating conditions related to prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) dysfunction. Method: Novel benzimidazole derivatives have been synthesized, characterized and screened for their in vitro POP inhibition. Results: All these derivatives showed excellent-to-good inhibitory activities in the range of IC50 values of 3.61 ± 0.15 to 43.72 ± 1.18 μM, when compared with standard Z-prolyl-prolinal. The docking analysis revealed the strong interactions between our compounds and the target enzyme, providing critical insights into their binding affinities and potential implications for drug development. Conclusion: The significance of these compounds in targeting POP enzyme offers promising prospects for future research in the field of neuropharmacology.
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- Abdul Shakoor
- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Malakand, PO Box 18800, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Malakand, PO Box 18800, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, PO Box 33, Nizwa, Oman
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, PO Box 33, Nizwa, Oman
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, PO Box 33, Nizwa, Oman
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- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, PO Box 33, Nizwa, Oman
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Tarasiuk J, Kostrzewa-Nowak D, Żwierełło W. Antitumour Effects of Selected Pyridinium Salts on Sensitive Leukaemia HL60 Cells and Their Multidrug Resistant Topoisomerase II-Defective HL60/MX2 Counterparts. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27165138. [PMID: 36014378 PMCID: PMC9415637 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27165138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 07/30/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Multidrug resistance (MDR), having a multifactorial nature, is one of the major clinical problems causing the failure of anticancer therapy. The aim of this study was to examine the antitumour effects of selected pyridinium salts, 1-methyl-3-nitropyridine chloride (MNP) and 3,3,6,6,10-pentamethyl-3,4,6,7-tetrahydro-[1,8(2H,5H)-dion]acridine chloride (MDION), on sensitive leukaemia HL60 cells and resistant topoisomerase II-defective HL60/MX2 cells. Cell growth was determined by the MTT test. Intracellular ROS level was measured with the aid of 2′,7′-DCF-DA. The cell cycle distribution was investigated by performing PI staining. DSB formation was examined using the γ-H2AX histone phosphorylation assay. The activity of caspase-3 and caspase-8 was measured with the use of the FLICA test. The assays for examining the lysosome membrane permeabilization were carried out with the aid of LysoTracker Green DND-26. Both studied compounds exerted very similar cytotoxic activities towards sensitive HL60 cells and their MDR counterparts. They modulated the cellular ROS level in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner and significantly increased the percentage of sensitive HL60 and resistant HL60/MX2 cells with sub-diploid DNA (sub-G1 fraction). However, the induction of DSB formation was not a significant mechanism of action of these pyridinium salts in studied cells. Both examined compounds triggered caspase-3/caspase-8-dependent apoptosis of sensitive HL60 cells and their MDR counterparts. Additionally, the findings of the study indicate that lysosomes may also participate in the programmed death of HL60 as well as HL60/MX2 cells induced by MDION. The data obtained in this work showed that both examined pyridinium salts, MNP and MDION, are able to retain high antileukaemic effects against multidrug resistant topoisomerase II-defective HL60/MX2 cells.
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Nabizadeh M, Naimi-Jamal MR, Rohani M, Azerang P, Tahghighi A. Hydrazone analogues with promising antibacterial profiles: Synthesis, morphology, in vitro and in silico approaches. Lett Appl Microbiol 2022; 75:667-679. [PMID: 35334115 DOI: 10.1111/lam.13692] [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: 01/06/2022] [Revised: 02/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Emergence of resistance to antibacterial drugs remains an important global threat that necessitates an urgent need for the discovery of alternative drugs. This study was undertaken to synthesize some novel nitroaryl/heteroaryl hydrazone derivatives as potential antibacterial agents. After synthesizing by a simple reaction between quinoline/quinazoline hydrazine and nitroaryl/heteroaryl aldehydes, all the compounds were screened for their antibacterial activities, cytotoxicity, and in silico investigations. The compound, 2-(4-nitrobenzylidene)-1-(quinazolin-4-yl)hydrazine (1b) displayed significant antimicrobial activity against several susceptible and resistant bacteria without any cytotoxicity. Moreover, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed the complete destruction of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli following exposure to this compound after 2 hours exposure. The in silico studies confirmed the better binding energy of these compounds in comparison with the reference drugs in complex with topoisomerase IV and bacterial ribosomal receptor. Compound 1b can be considered as a promising lead compound for the development of broad-spectrum antibacterial medications after further studies.
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- M Nabizadeh
- Research Laboratory of Green Organic Synthesis and Polymers, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.,Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Clinical Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Research Laboratory of Green Organic Synthesis and Polymers, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.,Research Center for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Clinical Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Clinical Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Cortón P, Wang H, Neira I, Blanco-Gómez A, Pazos E, Peinador C, Li H, García MD. “The red cage”: implementation of pH-responsiveness within a macrobicyclic pyridinium-based molecular host. Org Chem Front 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d1qo01331a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The “red cage”, a new pyridinium-based macrobicyclic host, has been found to complex model aromatic substrates in aqueous media in a pH-responsive fashion.
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- Pablo Cortón
- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Departamento de Química and Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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de Oliveira Carneiro Brum J, França TCC, LaPlante SR, Villar JDF. Synthesis and Biological Activity of Hydrazones and Derivatives: A Review. Mini Rev Med Chem 2020; 20:342-368. [PMID: 31612828 DOI: 10.2174/1389557519666191014142448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 06/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Hydrazones and their derivatives are very important compounds in medicinal chemistry due to their reported biological activity for the treatment of several diseases, like Alzheimer's, cancer, inflammation, and leishmaniasis. However, most of the investigations on hydrazones available in literature today are directed to the synthesis of these molecules with little discussion available on their biological activities. With the purpose of bringing lights into this issue, we performed a revision of the literature and wrote this review based on some of the most current research reports of hydrazones and derivatives, making it clear that the synthesis of these molecules can lead to new drug prototypes. Our goal is to encourage more studies focused on the synthesis and evaluation of new hydrazones, as a contribution to the development of potential new drugs for the treatment of various diseases.
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- Juliana de Oliveira Carneiro Brum
- Medicinal Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Military Institute of Engineering, Praca General Tiburcio 80, 22290-270, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Modeling Applied to the Chemical and Biological Defense (LMCBD), Military Institute of Engineering, Praça General Tibúrcio 80, 22290-270, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.,Universite du Quebec, INRS-Centre Armand-Frapier Sante Biotechnologie, 531, Boulevard de Praires, Laval H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Universite du Quebec, INRS-Centre Armand-Frapier Sante Biotechnologie, 531, Boulevard de Praires, Laval H7V 1B7, Canada
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- Medicinal Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Military Institute of Engineering, Praca General Tiburcio 80, 22290-270, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Saouli S, Selatnia I, Zouchoune B, Sid A, Zendaoui SM, Bensouici C, Bendeif EE. Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, crystal structure, DFT studies and biological activities of new hydrazone derivative: 1-(2,5-bis((E)-4-isopropylbenzylidene)cyclopentylidene)-2-(2,4-dinitrophenyl) hydrazine. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.128203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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As a double-edged sword, autophagy in cancer cells could either suppress or promote tumorigenesis. Nowadays, more and more natural compounds with autophagy-regulating activities exhibit therapeutic effects against various cancers. N-Heterocycle derivatives plays an important role for discovery new drugs. In this review, we summarize and classify 116 N-heterocycle derivatives with autophagy-regulating activities in the past decade into 12 classes according to structure characteristics. The structural features, bioactivities, mechanism and problems faced in this field are discussed and reported for the first time. Some of these even exhibited outstanding in vivo antitumor activities, including bisaminoquinoline (3), pancratistatin (8), 10-hydroxyevodiamine (18), lycorine (28), piperine (31) and iridium (III) complex (57), which are potential drug candidates for antitumor therapy.
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Blanco-Gómez A, Neira I, Barriada JL, Melle-Franco M, Peinador C, García MD. Thinking outside the "Blue Box": from molecular to supramolecular pH-responsiveness. Chem Sci 2019; 10:10680-10686. [PMID: 32206250 PMCID: PMC7069232 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04489b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We present herein the development of a new polycationic cyclophane: the "red box", second in a series of hydrazone-based analogues of the well-known organic receptor cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene)cyclophane ("blue box"). The macrocycle has been prepared in an excellent yield in aqueous media, and shows both a remarkable pH-responsiveness and unusual hydrolytic stability of the two hydrazone C[double bond, length as m-dash]N bonds, associated with charge delocalization of the amine lone pair. Whilst in aqueous media the "red box" is able to complex a variety of aromatic substrates, both in its acidic and basic form, in organic media the cyclophane is only able to capture those in the acidic form, resulting in supramolecular pH-responsiveness.
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- Arturo Blanco-Gómez
- Departamento de Química , Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidade da Coruña , 15071 , A Coruña , Spain . ;
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- Departamento de Química , Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidade da Coruña , 15071 , A Coruña , Spain . ;
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- Departamento de Química , Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidade da Coruña , 15071 , A Coruña , Spain . ;
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- CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials Department of Chemistry , University of Aveiro , 3810-193 Aveiro , Portugal
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- Departamento de Química , Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidade da Coruña , 15071 , A Coruña , Spain . ;
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- Departamento de Química , Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidade da Coruña , 15071 , A Coruña , Spain . ;
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The use of hydrazones presents an opportunity for enhancing drug delivery through site-specific drug release, including areas such as tumor tissue or thrombosis. Many researchers are experimenting on how to more efficiently form these hydrazones, specifically using heat and chemical catalysts. Hydrazones respond on the pH environment or are synthesized with particular functional groups of the hydrazone and are two of the many unique features that allow for their programmed drug release. Their flexibility allows them to be relevant in a diverse range of applications, from anti-inflammatory to anticancer to acting as a chelating agent. This review paper discusses efficient ways to optimize the properties of hydrazones and their utilization in various clinical applications, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, the prevention of platelet aggregation, and roles as chelating agents.
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- Jenna Wahbeh
- 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USC
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- 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USC
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Angelova VT, Pencheva T, Vassilev N, Simeonova R, Momekov G, Valcheva V. New indole and indazole derivatives as potential antimycobacterial agents. Med Chem Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s00044-019-02293-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Synthesis and antimycobacterial activity of pyridinium compounds with sulfonylacetamide substituent in N-alkyl chain. Chem Heterocycl Compd (N Y) 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10593-018-2362-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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