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Expedient discovery for novel antifungal leads: 1,3,4-Oxadiazole derivatives bearing a quinazolin-4(3H)-one fragment
Chai, Jianqi,Chen, Min,Jin, Fei,Kong, Xiangyi,Wang, Xiaobin,Xue, Wei,Yang, Chunlong
, (2021/08/03)
Developing novel fungicide candidates are intensively promoted by the rapid emergences of resistant fungi that outbreak on agricultural production. Aiming to discovery novel antifungal leads, a series of 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives bearing a quinazolin-4(3H)-one fragment were constructed for evaluating their inhibition effects against phytopathogenic fungi in vitro and in vivo. Systematically structural optimizations generated the bioactive molecule I32 that was identified as a promising inhibitor against Rhizoctonia solani with the in vivo preventative effect of 58.63% at 200 μg/mL. The observations that were captured by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that the bioactive molecule I32 could induce the sprawling growth of hyphae, the local shrinkage and rupture on hyphal surfaces, the extreme swelling of vacuoles, the striking distortions on cell walls, and the reduction of mitochondria numbers. The above results provided an indispensable complement for the discovery of antifungal lead bearing a quinazolin-4(3H)-one and 1,3,4-oxadiazole fragment.
Synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking studies of novel 1,2,3-triazole-quinazolines as antiproliferative agents displaying ERK inhibitory activity
Nunes, Paulo Sérgio Gon?alves,da Silva, Gabriel,Nascimento, Sofia,Mantoani, Susimaire Pedersoli,de Andrade, Peterson,Bernardes, Emerson Soares,Kawano, Daniel Fábio,Leopoldino, Andreia Machado,Carvalho, Ivone
, (2021/05/26)
ERK1/2 inhibitors have attracted special attention concerning the ability of circumventing cases of innate or log-term acquired resistance to RAF and MEK kinase inhibitors. Based on the 4-aminoquinazoline pharmacophore of kinases, herein we describe the synthesis of 4-aminoquinazoline derivatives bearing a 1,2,3-triazole stable core to bridge different aromatic and heterocyclic rings using copper-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction (CuAAC) as a Click Chemistry strategy. The initial screening of twelve derivatives in tumoral cells (CAL-27, HN13, HGC-27, and BT-20) revealed that the most active in BT-20 cells (25a, IC50 24.6 μM and a SI of 3.25) contains a more polar side chain (sulfone). Furthermore, compound 25a promoted a significant release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), suggesting the induction of cell death by necrosis. In addition, this compound induced G0/G1 stalling in BT-20 cells, which was accompanied by a decrease in the S phase. Western blot analysis of the levels of p-STAT3, p-ERK, PARP, p53 and cleaved caspase-3 revealed p-ERK1/2 and p-STA3 were drastically decreased in BT-20 cells under 25a incubation, suggesting the involvement of these two kinases in the mechanisms underlying 25a-induced cell cycle arrest, besides loss of proliferation and viability of the breast cancer cell. Molecular docking simulations using the ERK-ulixertinib crystallographic complex showed compound 25a could potentially compete with ATP for binding to ERK in a slightly higher affinity than the reference ERK1/2 inhibitor. Further in silico analyses showed comparable toxicity and pharmacokinetic profiles for compound 25a in relation to ulixertinib.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of quinoline/cinnamic acid hybrids as amyloid-beta aggregation inhibitors
Cheng, Zhi-Qiang,Ge, Yong-Xi,Jiang, Cheng-Shi,Jiao, Yang,Liu, Guangpu,Wang, Yin-Yin,Xie, Hong-Xu,Zhou, Lei,Zhu, Kongkai
, (2020/05/18)
Abstract: The objective of the current study is to evaluate the potency of quinoline/cinnamic acid hybrids against amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregation. In total, six new target quinoline/cinnamic acid hybrids were synthesized and screened for their in vitro anti-Aβ42 aggregation activity. Some hybrids, including (E)-N-(2-cinnamamidoethyl)-6,7-dimethoxyquinoline-2-carboxamide, (E)-6,7-dimethoxy-N-[2-[3-(4-methoxyphenyl)acrylamido]ethyl]quinoline-2-carboxamide, and (E)-6,7-dimethoxy-N-[2-[3-(2-methoxyphenyl)acrylamido]ethyl]quinoline-2-carboxamide, showed significant anti-Aβ42 aggregation activity. Molecular docking method was used to predict the binding modes of these compounds with Aβ42. In addition, their cytotoxicity towards neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y and human normal hepatocyte LO2 cells were tested. Neuroprotective evaluation demonstrated that these compounds could attenuate Aβ42-induced neurotoxicity towards SH-SY5Y cells in a dose-dependent manner. Overall, the present study provides quinoline/cinnamic acid hybrids as a new template for developing Aβ aggregation inhibitors against Alzheimer’s disease. Graphic abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
