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Triazole Bridged Flavonoid Dimers as Potent, Nontoxic, and Highly Selective Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP/ABCG2) Inhibitors
Zhu, Xuezhen,Wong, Iris L. K.,Chan, Kin-Fai,Cui, Jiahua,Law, Man Chun,Chong, Tsz Cheung,Hu, Xuesen,Chow, Larry M. C.,Chan, Tak Hang
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The present work describes the syntheses of diverse triazole bridged flavonoid dimers and identifies potent, nontoxic, and highly selective BCRP inhibitors. A homodimer, Ac22(Az8)2, with m-methoxycarbonylbenzyloxy substitution at C-3 of the flavone moieties and a bis-triazole-containing linker (21 atoms between the two flavones) showed low toxicity (IC50 toward L929, 3T3, and HFF-1 > 100 μM), potent BCRP-inhibitory activity (EC50 = 1-2 nM), and high BCRP selectivity (BCRP selectivity over MRP1 and P-gp > 455-909). Ac22(Az8)2 inhibits BCRP-ATPase activity, blocks the drug efflux activity of BCRP, elevates the intracellular drug accumulation, and finally restores the drug sensitivity of BCRP-overexpressing cells. It does not down-regulate the surface BCRP protein expression to enhance the drug retention. Therefore, Ac22(Az8)2 and similar flavonoid dimers appear to be promising candidates for further development into combination therapy to overcome MDR cancers with BCRP overexpression.
ALKYNE-, AZIDE- AND TRIAZOLE-CONTAINING FLAVONOIDS AS MODULATORS FOR MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE IN CANCERS
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A triazole bridged flavonoid dimer compound library was efficiently constructed via the cycloaddition reaction of a series of flavonoid-containing azides (Az 1-15) and alkynes (Ac 1-17). These triazole bridged flavonoid dimers and their precursor alkyne- and azide-continaing flavonoids were screened for their ability to modulate multidrug resistance (MDR) in P-gp-overexpressed cell line (LCC6MDR), MRPl-overexpressed cell line (2008/MRPl) and BCRP-overexpressed cell line (HEK293/R2 and MCF7-MX100). Generally, they displayed very promising MDR reversal activity against P-gp-, MRPl- and BCRP-mediated drug resistance. Moreover, they showed different levels of selectivity for various transporters. Overall, they can be divided into mono-selective, dual-selective and multi-selective modulators for the P-gp, MRPl and BCRP transporters. The EC50 values for reversing paclitaxel resistance (141 - 340 nM) of LCC6MDR cells, DOX (78 - 590 nM) and vincristine (82 - 550 nM) resistance of 2008/MRPl cells and topotecan resistance (0.9 - 135 nM) of HEK293/R2 and MCF7-MX100 cells were at nanomolar range. Importantly, a number of compounds displayed EC50 at or below 10 nM in BCRP-overexpressed cell lines, indicating that these bivalent triazoles more selectively inhibit BCRP transporter than the P-gp and MRPl transporters. Most of the dimers are notably safe MDR chemosensitizers as indicated by their high therapeutic index values.
