192934-83-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis, structure-activity relationship and biological activity of acridine derivatives as potent mdr-reversing agents
Wang, Jianhong,Luo, Tianwei,Li, Shaobin,Zhhang, Yahong,Wang, Chaojie,Zhao, Jin
, p. 4070 - 4079 (2013/12/04)
Multidrug resistance (MDR) mediated by P-glycoprotein is one of the best characterized transporter-mediated barriers to successful cancer chemotherapy. In an attempt to find MDR-reversing agents, a series of novel acridine derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro antiproliferative activities against K562 and K562/ADM cells. Some of these compounds showed superior MDR-reversing activities than Amsacrine, the reference compound. Structureactivity relationships (SAR) of these compounds indicated that the N, N-diethylamine moiety had an affect on the in vitro antiproliferative activity. Interestingly, the compounds bearing N, N-diethylamine moiety showed higher growthinhibitory activity against K562/ADM cells than K562 cells. The high duplex DNA binding affinity and inhibition of topoisomerase of these acridine compounds are maintained which were confirmed by fluorescent quenching and DNA topoisomerase II cleavage assay, respectively. Moreover, several compounds were examined for their ability to increase the accumulation of rhodamine 123 in K562 and K562/ADM cells, and the result suggested that they may be inhibitors for P-glycoprotein. Our study suggested that acridine framework is a potentially interesting scaffold for developing novel MDR-reversing agents.
Structure-activity relationships for the antileishmanial and antitrypanosomal activities of 1'-substituted 9-anilinoacridines
Gamage, Swarna A.,Figgitt, David P.,Wojcik, Stanley J.,Ralph, Raymond K.,Ransijn, Adriana,Mauel, Jacques,Yardley, Vanessa,Snowdon, Diane,Croft, Simon L.,Denny, William A.
, p. 2634 - 2642 (2007/10/03)
Members of the class of 9-anilinoacridine topoisomerase II inhibitors bearing lipophilic electron-donating 1'-aniline substituents are active against both the promastigote and amastigote forms of the parasite Leishmania major. A series of analogues of the known 1'-NHhexyl lead compound were prepared and evaluated against L. major in macrophage culture to further develop structure-activity relationships (SAR). Toxicity toward mammalian cells was measured in a human leukemia cell line, and the ratio of the two IC50 values (IC50(J)/IC50(L)) was used as a measure of the in vitro therapeutic index (IVTI). A 3,6-diNMe2 substitution pattern on the acridine greatly increased toxicity to L. major without altering mammalian toxicity, increasing IVTIs over that of the lead compound. The 2-OMe, 6-C1 acridine substitution pattern used in the antimalarial drug mepacrine also resulted in potent antileishmanial activity and high IVTIs. Earlier suggestions of the utility of 2'-OR groups in lowering mammalian cytotoxicity were not borne out in this wider study. A series of very lipophilic 1'-NRR (symmetric dialkylamino)-substituted analogues showed relatively high antileishmanial potency, but no clear trend was apparent across the series and none were superior to the 1'-NH(CH2)5Me subclass. Subsets of the most active 1'- N(R)(CH2)5Me- and 1'-N(alkyl)2-substituted compounds against L. major were also evaluated against Leishmania donovani, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Trypanosoma brucei, but no consistent SAR could be discerned in these physiologically diverse test systems. The present study has confirmed earlier conclusions that lipophilic electron-donating groups at the 1'-position of 9- anilinoacridines provide high activity against L. major, but the SAR patterns observed do not carry over to the other parasites studied.
