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Hagar FF, Abbas SH, Atef E, Abdelhamid D, Abdel-Aziz M. Benzimidazole scaffold as a potent anticancer agent with different mechanisms of action (2016-2023). Mol Divers 2024:10.1007/s11030-024-10907-8. [PMID: 39031290 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-024-10907-8] [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: 03/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/22/2024]
Abstract
Benzimidazole scaffolds have potent anticancer activity due to their structure similarity to nucleoside. In addition, benzimidazoles could function as hydrogen donors or acceptors and bind to different drug targets that participate in cancer progression. The literature had many anticancer agents containing benzimidazole cores that gained much interest. Provoked by our endless interest in benzimidazoles as anticancer agents, we summarized the successful trials of the benzimidazole scaffolds in this concern. Moreover, we discuss the substantial opportunities in cancer treatment using benzimidazole-based drugs that may direct medicinal chemists for a compelling future design of more active chemotherapeutic agents with potential clinical applications. The uniqueness of this work lies in the highlighted benzimidazole scaffold hybridization with different molecules and benzimidazole-metal complexes, detailed mechanisms of action, and the IC50 of the developed compounds determined by different laboratories after 2015.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fatma Fouad Hagar
- Medicinal Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
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- Medicinal Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
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- College of Pharmacy, West Coast University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Medicinal Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
- Raabe College of Pharmacy, Ohio Northern University, Ohio, USA.
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- Medicinal Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
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Adardour M, Ait Lahcen M, Oubahmane M, Ettahiri W, Hdoufane I, Bouamama H, Alanazi MM, Cherqaoui D, Taleb M, Garcia EZ, Baouid A. Design, Synthesis, Molecular Modeling and Biological Evaluation of Novel Pyrazole Benzimidazolone Derivatives as Potent Antioxidants. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:1648. [PMID: 38139775 PMCID: PMC10747449 DOI: 10.3390/ph16121648] [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: 10/28/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
Abstract
In the present study, we used benzimidazolone as a starting material to efficiently synthesize several hybrid compounds of pyrazole benzimidazolone derivatives by the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. These compounds were obtained in average yields and were characterized by NMR (1H and 13C) and HRMS analysis. The antioxidant activity of the synthesized compounds 5(a-c) and 6(a-c) was evaluated using in vitro reduction assays, including ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC). The results indicated that products 5c, 6b, and 6c exhibit higher antioxidant activity compared to the reference compounds and showed a remarkable ability to effectively remove the radical at IC50 (14.00 ± 0.14, 12.47± 0.02, and 12.82 ± 0.10 µM, respectively) under the TAC assessment. Conversely, compound 6c showed excellent activity at IC50 (68.97 ± 0.26 µM) in the FRAP assay. We carried out molecular docking and dynamics simulations to investigate the binding mode and stability of 5c, 6b, and 6c in the active site of human Peroxiredoxin 5. An ADMET study was conducted to determine the drug properties of the synthesized compounds.
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- Mohamed Adardour
- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
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- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
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- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
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- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
- Laboratory of Engineering, Electrochemistry, Modeling and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez 30000, Morocco;
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- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
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- Laboratory of Sustainable Development and Health Research, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco;
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;
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- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
- Sustainable Materials Research Center (SUSMAT-RC), University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Benguerir 43150, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Engineering, Electrochemistry, Modeling and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez 30000, Morocco;
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia, Ave. Vte. Andres Estelles s/n, 46100 Valencia, Spain;
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- Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Semlalia Faculty of Sciences, 2390, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40001, Morocco; (M.A.L.); (M.O.); (W.E.); (I.H.); (D.C.); (A.B.)
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