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Novel pyrimidopyrimidine derivatives for inhibition of cellular proliferation and motility induced by h-prune in breast cancer
Virgilio, Antonella,Spano, Daniela,Esposito, Veronica,Di Dato, Valeria,Citarella, Giuseppe,Marino, Natascia,Maffia, Veronica,De Martino, Daniela,De Antonellis, Pasqualino,Galeone, Aldo,Zollo, Massimo
, p. 41 - 50 (2013/01/15)
The human (h)-prune protein is a member of the DHH protein superfamily and it has a cAMP phosphodiesterase activity. Its overexpression in breast, colorectal and gastric cancers correlates with depth of invasion and a high degree of lymph-node metastasis. One mechanism by which h-prune stimulates cell motility and metastasis processes is through its phosphodiesterase activity, which can be suppressed by dipyridamole, a pyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidine analogue. To obtain new and more potent agents that have high specificity towards inhibition of this h-prune activity, we followed structure-activity-relationship methodologies starting from dipyridamole and synthesised eight new pyrimido-pyrimidine derivatives. We analysed these newly generated compounds for specificity towards h-prune activities in vitro in cellular models using scintillation proximity assay for cAMP-PDE activity, cell index in cell proliferation assays and transwell methodology for two-dimensional cell migration in a top-down strategy of selection. Our findings show that two pyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidine compounds are more effective than dipyridamole in two highly metastatic cellular models of breast cancer in vitro. Future studies will assess their therapeutic effectiveness against breast and other cancers where there is over-expression of h-prune, and in ad-hoc, proof of concept, animal models.
Controlled stepwise conversion of 2,4,6,8-tetrachloropyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidine into 2,4,6,8-tetrasubstituted pyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidines
Northen, Julian S.,Boyle, F. Thomas,Clegg, William,Curtin, Nicola J.,Edwards, Andrew J.,Griffin, Roger J.,Golding, Bernard T.
, p. 108 - 115 (2007/10/03)
For the rational synthesis of 2,4,6,8-tetrasubstituted pyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidines, required as purine mimetics, sequential nucleophilic substitutions of 2,4,6,8-tetrachloropyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidine have been investigated. Reaction conditions have been devised leading to 2,4,6,8-tetrasubstituted pyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidines with patterns of substitution denoted as abab (reaction with nucleophile 1 at C-4 and C-8, followed by nucleophile 2 at C-2 and C-6) or abac (reaction with nucleophile 1 at C-4 and C-8, nucleophile 2 at C-2 and nucleophile 3 at C-6) or abcd (reaction with nucleophile 1 at C-4, nucleophile 2 at C-8, nucleophile 3 at C-2 and nucleophile 4 at C-6). The use of low temperature, relatively dilute solution and careful addition of the amine nucleophile can control the critical first step. The third step in the production of the abcd pattern leads to two regioisomers, which have been structurally characterised by 1H NMR and a crystal structure analysis. Selected 2,4,6,8-tetrasubstituted pyrimido[5,4-d]pyrimidines were tested as inhibitors of the cyclin-dependent kinase 1 complex (cyclin B/CDK1), but none of the compounds showed significant activity.
