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Molecular hybrid design, synthesis, in vitro and in vivo anticancer evaluation, and mechanism of action of N-acylhydrazone linked, heterobivalent β-carbolines
Chen, Wei,Chen, Xiaofei,Dai, Bin,Fan, Wenxi,Guo, Liang,Ma, Qin,Zhang, Jie
, (2020/02/05)
A series of N-acylhydrazone-linked, heterobivalent β-carboline derivatives was designed and synthesized from L-tryptophan in a nine-step reaction sequence. The effort resulted in the heterobivalent β-carbolines 10a–t in good yields. The target compounds were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). The in vitro cytotoxic activity of the synthesized compounds was evaluated against normal EA.HY926 cells and five cancer cell lines: LLC (Lewis lung carcinoma), BGC-823 (gastric carcinoma), CT-26 (murine colon carcinoma), Bel-7402 (liver carcinoma), and MCF-7 (breast carcinoma). Compound 10e, with an IC50 value of 2.41 μM against EA.HY926 cells, was the most potent inhibitor. It showed cytotoxicity against all five cancer cell lines of different origin – murine and human, with IC50 values ranging from 4.2 ± 0.7 to 18.5 ± 3.1 μM. A study of structure-activity relationships indicated that the influence on cytotoxic activities of the substituent in the R9′-position followed the tendency, 2,3,4,5,6-perfluorophenylmethyl > 4-fluorobenzyl > 3-phenylpropyl group. The antitumor efficacies of the selected compounds were also evaluated in mice. Compound 10e exhibited potent antitumor activity, with tumor inhibition of more than 40% for Sarcoma 180 and 36.7% for Lewis lung cancer. Furthermore, the pharmacological mechanisms showed that compound 10e has a certain impairment in the motility of LLC cells, which suggests the anti-metastatic potential. And compound 10e inhibited angiogenesis in chicken chorioallantoic membrane assay, and the anti-angiogenetic potency was more potent than the reference drug combretastatin A4-phosphate (CA4P) at a concentration 50 μM.
Synthesis and in vitro cytotoxic evaluation of 1,3-bisubstituted and 1,3,9-trisubstituted β-carboline derivatives
Cao, Rihui,Peng, Wenlie,Chen, Hongsheng,Hou, Xuerui,Guan, Huaji,Chen, Qi,Ma, Yan,Xu, Anlong
, p. 249 - 257 (2007/10/03)
A series of novel 1,3-bisubstituted and 1,3,9-trisubstituted β-carboline derivatives was synthesized from the starting material l-tryptophan. Cytotoxic activities of these compounds were investigated in vitro. The results showed that 1,3,9-trisubstituted β-carboline derivatives had higher cytotoxic activities in vitro than the corresponding 1,3-bisubstituted compounds. Among all the synthesized 1,3,9-trisubstituted β-carboline derivatives, the compounds with a methyl substituent at position-1 displayed more potent cytotoxic activities, furthermore compound 5e having an ethoxycarbonyl substituent at position-3 and a pentafluorobenzyl at position-9, respectively, was found to be the most potent compounds of this series with IC50 value of 4:uM against BGC-823 cell lines. These data suggested that (1) the cytotoxic potencies of β-carboline derivatives were enhanced by the introduction of appropriate substituents into position-1 and position-9 in β-carboline; (2) the β-carboline structure might be an important basis for the design and synthesis of new antitumor drugs; (3) the methyl substituent at position-1, the pentafluorobenzyl group at position-9 and the ethoxycarbonyl substituent at position-3 were the optimal combination for the improvement of cytotoxic activity of the β-carboline derivatives.
