- Design and biological evaluation of phenyl imidazole analogs as hedgehog signaling pathway inhibitors
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The hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is involved in diverse aspects of cellular events. Aberrant activation of Hh signaling pathway drives oncogenic transformation for a wide range of cancers, and it is therefore a promising target in cancer therapy. In the principle of association and ring-opening, we designed and synthesized a series of Hh signaling pathway inhibitors with phenyl imidazole scaffold, which were biologically evaluated in Gli-Luc reporter assay. Compound 25 was identified to possess high potency with nanomolar IC50, and moreover, it preserved the inhibition against wild-type and drug-resistant Smo-overexpressing cells. A molecular modeling study of compound 25 expounded its binding mode to Smo receptor, providing a basis for the further structural modification of phenyl imidazole analogs.
- Sun, Chiyu,Zhang, Ying,Wang, Han,Yin, Zhengxu,Wu, Lingqiong,Huang, Yanmiao,Zhang, Wenhu,Wang, Youbing,Hu, Qibo
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- Synthesis and evaluation of novel N-3-benzimidazolephenylbisamide derivatives for antiproliferative and Hedgehog pathway inhibitory activity
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A series of novel N-3-benzimidazolephenylbisamide derivatives bearing the 4-benzyloxyphenyl moiety were synthesized and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against MGC803, HT29, MKN45 and SW620 cancer cell lines in vitro. The pharmacological data demonstrated that the majority of the target compounds exhibited higher efficacy against MGC803, HT29 and MKN45 cells, among which compound 7m displayed higher antiproliferative activity than vismodegib. Furthermore, compound 7m manifested better inhibition of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway in different Hh-related assays and may compete with boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-cyclopamine for binding to the human smoothened (Smo) receptor. In addition, molecular docking studies suggested that compound 7m interacts very closely with the vismodegib docking pose through hydrogen bonds at the taladegib binding site of the Smo receptor.
- Sun, Chiyu,Li, Yangsheng,Shi, Ailong,Zhang, Jingzhou,Li, Yafei,Zhao, Mingming,Zhang, Lijuan,Zheng, Huachuan,Meng, Ying,Ding, Huaiwei,Song, Hongrui
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- PROCESS FOR PREPARING ALPHA-CARBOXAMIDE DERIVATIVES
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The present application provides a process for the preparation of α-carboxamide pyrrolidine derivatives of formula (I), wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, C1-6alkyl or C3-6cycloalkylC1-6alkyl; or such R1 and R2, together with the nitrogen to which they are attached, may form an unsubstituted 3-, 4-, 5- or 6-membered saturated ring; X is carbon or nitrogen; n is 0, 1 or 2, wherein when present each R5 is independently selected from the list consisting of C1-3alkyl, halogen, cyano, haloC1-3alkyl, hydroxy, C1-3alkoxy and C1-3haloalkoxy; either R6 or R7 is -O-R8, -OCHR9R8, -NCH2R8 or -(CH2)2R8 wherein the other R6 or R7 is hydrogen or R5; and wherein R8 is a phenyl ring or wherein the phenyl ring is optionally substituted by one or more groups independently selected from the list consisting of C1-3alkyl, halogen, cyano, haloC1-3alkyl, hydroxy, C1-3alkoxy and C1-3haloalkoxy; and R9 is hydrogen or C1-3alkyl.
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