- Design and synthesis of chromone-nitrogen mustard derivatives and evaluation of anti-breast cancer activity
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Chromone has emerged as one of the most important synthetic scaffolds for antitumor activity, which promotes the development of candidate drugs with better activity. In this study, a series of nitrogen mustard derivatives of chromone were designed and syn
- Sun, Jianan,Mu, Jiahui,Wang, Shenglin,Jia, Cai,Li, Dahong,Hua, Huiming,Cao, Hao
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p. 431 - 444
(2022/01/04)
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- Improving the Potency of Cancer Immunotherapy by Dual Targeting of IDO1 and DNA
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Herein we report the first exploration of a dual-targeting drug design strategy to improve the efficacy of small-molecule cancer immunotherapy. New hybrids of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) inhibitors and DNA alkylating nitrogen mustards that respectively target IDO1 and DNA were rationally designed. As the first-in-class examples of such molecules, they were found to exhibit significantly enhanced anticancer activity in vitro and in vivo with low toxicity. This proof-of-concept study has established a critical step toward the development of a novel and effective immunotherapy for the treatment of cancers.
- Fang, Kun,Dong, Guoqiang,Wang, Hongyu,He, Shipeng,Wu, Shanchao,Wang, Wei,Sheng, Chunquan
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- Novel enmein-type diterpenoid hybrids coupled with nitrogen mustards: Synthesis of promising candidates for anticancer therapeutics
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Natural derived enmein-type diterpenoids exert cytotoxicity against a wide range of human cancer cells. Yet their medicinal applications are hindered by insufficient potency for chemotherapy. Hence, a series of novel enmein-type diterpenoid hybrids coupled with nitrogen mustards were designed and synthesized to increase antitumor efficacy while reducing systemic toxicity. Most conjugates exhibited stronger antiproliferative activities than parent diterpenoids and nitrogen mustards, especially for multidrug-resistant tumor cell line Bel-7402/5-FU. Among them, compound E2 showed the most potent inhibitory activities in human leukemia HL-60 cells, human prostate cancer PC-3 cells, human liver cancer Bel-7402 cells and drug-resistant human liver cancer Bel-7402/5-FU cells with IC50 values of 7.83 μM, 3.97 μM, 0.77 μM and 2.07 μM, respectively. Additionally, high selectivity with selectivity index over 130 was also observed from cytotoxic evaluation between L-02 human normal liver cells and Bel-7402 malignant liver cells. Further studies on mechanism of action indicated that E2 induced both apoptosis and G1 phase cell cycle arrest in Bel-7402 hepatoma cells. Moreover, the dysfunction in mitochondrial pathway was also involved in E2 initiated apoptotic activation, which entailed the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential followed by upregulating the bax/bcl-2 ratio and increasing the expression of cytochrome c, p53, caspase-3 and -9. Overall, E2 has the potential to emerge as a promising drug candidate for cancer therapy.
- Gao, Xiang,Li, Jia,Wang, Mingying,Xu, Shengtao,Liu, Weiwei,Zang, Linghe,Li, Zhanlin,Hua, Huiming,Xu, Jinyi,Li, Dahong
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p. 588 - 598
(2018/02/09)
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- Synthesis of androstene oxime-nitrogen mustard bioconjugates as potent antineoplastic agents
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In the present study, synthesis and antineoplastic activity of phenylacetic acid and benzoic acid nitrogen mustard conjugates of various steroidal oximes are reported for the first time. The conjugation was achieved through a more stable oxime-ester linkage and the resulting newly synthesized conjugates were evaluated in vitro on various human cancer cell lines for cytotoxicity. The extent of their alkylating activity was investigated by the in vitro colorimetric 4-(p-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) assay. The 17E-steroidal oxime-benzoic acid mustard ester 3β-acetoxy-17E-[p-(N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)amino)]benzoyloxyimino-androst-5-ene (8) emerged as the most potent conjugate having significant cytotoxicity on most of the NCI 60-cell lines. Outstanding growth inhibition was observed on the IGROV1 ovarian cancer cell line with GI50?=?0.937?μM. In general, the D-ring derived androstene oxime-nitrogen mustard conjugates were found to possess better antineoplastic activity over a variety of cancer cells in comparison to those derived from other rings of the steroid skeleton.
- Acharya, Pratap Chandra,Bansal, Ranju
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- Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel sesquiterpene mustards as potential anticancer agents
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Several novel series of sesquiterpene mustards (SMs) bearing nitrogen mustard and glutathione (GSH)-reactive α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone groups were successfully prepared for the first time and showed excellent antiproliferative activities in vitro. Among them, compounds 2e and 2g displayed the highest antiproliferative properties with IC50 values ranging from 2.5 to 8.7 μM. The selectivity of these two compounds was evaluated by SRB method against human cancer and normal hepatic cells (HepG2 and L02). The induction of apoptosis and effects on the cell cycle distribution with compounds 2e and 2g were investigated by Hoechst 33,258 staining and flow cytometry, which exhibited that they could induce selective cell apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in HepG2 and L02 cells. In addition, further investigation showed that compounds 2e and 2g could obviously inhibit the proliferation of HepG2 cells by inducing significant DNA cross-linking and depleting GSH in cell media. The good cytotoxicity and selectivity of compounds 2e and 2g pointed them as promising leads for anticancer drug design.
- Xu, Yuan-Zhen,Gu, Xue-Yan,Peng, Shou-Jiao,Fang, Jian-Guo,Zhang, Ying-Mei,Huang, De-Jun,Chen, Jian-Jun,Gao, Kun
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p. 284 - 297
(2015/03/30)
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- Novel hybrids of natural oridonin-bearing nitrogen mustards as potential anticancer drug candidates
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A series of novel hybrids from natural product oridonin and nitrogen mustards were designed and synthesized to obtain more efficacious and less toxic antitumor agents. The antiproliferative evaluation showed that most conjugates were more potent than their parent compounds oridonin and clinically used nitrogen mustards against four human cancer cell lines (K562, MCF-7, Bel-7402, and MGC-803). Furthermore, the representative compounds 16a-c exhibited antiproliferative activities against the multidrug resistant cell lines (SW620/AD300 and NCI-H460/MX20). It was shown that the most effective compound 16b possesses a strong inhibitory activity with an IC50 value 21-fold lower than that of oridonin in MCF-7 cells and also exhibits selective cytotoxicity toward the cancer cells. Intriguingly, compound 16b has been demonstrated to significantly induce apoptosis and affect cell cycle progression in human hepatoma Bel-7402 cells.
- Xu, Shengtao,Pei, Lingling,Wang, Chengqian,Zhang, Yun-Kai,Li, Dahong,Yao, Hequan,Wu, Xiaoming,Chen, Zhe-Sheng,Sun, Yijun,Xu, Jinyi
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p. 797 - 802
(2014/08/05)
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