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  2. Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of conformationally restricted 1,2,3-triazole analogues of combretastatins in the sea urchin embryo model and against human cancer cell lines

Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of conformationally restricted 1,2,3-triazole analogues of combretastatins in the sea urchin embryo model and against human cancer cell lines

  • Bioorg Med Chem. 2014 Jan 15;22(2):738-55. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2013.12.015.
Dmitry V Demchuk 1 Alexander V Samet 2 Natalia B Chernysheva 3 Vladimir I Ushkarov 4 Galina A Stashina 5 Leonid D Konyushkin 6 Mikhail M Raihstat 7 Sergei I Firgang 8 Alex A Philchenkov 9 Michael P Zavelevich 10 Ludmila M Kuiava 11 Vasyl F Chekhun 12 Dmitry Yu Blokhin 13 Alex S Kiselyov 14 Marina N Semenova 15 Victor V Semenov 16
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: demchuk@ioc.ac.ru.
  • 2 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: sametav@ioc.ac.ru.
  • 3 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: info@chemblock.com.
  • 4 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: ushkarov@inbox.ru.
  • 5 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: galina_stashina@chemical-block.com.
  • 6 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: LeonidK@chemical-block.com.
  • 7 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation; Chemical Block Ltd, 3 Kyriacou Matsi, 3723 Limassol, Cyprus. Electronic address: mr@chemical-block.com.
  • 8 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: cbi@chemical-block.com.
  • 9 R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Oncology, Pathology and Radiobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 45 Vasyl'kivska Street, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine. Electronic address: a_philch@onconet.kiev.ua.
  • 10 R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Oncology, Pathology and Radiobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 45 Vasyl'kivska Street, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine. Electronic address: butenko@onconet.kiev.ua.
  • 11 R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Oncology, Pathology and Radiobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 45 Vasyl'kivska Street, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine. Electronic address: kuyavalm@ukr.net.
  • 12 R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Oncology, Pathology and Radiobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 45 Vasyl'kivska Street, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine. Electronic address: chekhun@onconet.kiev.ua.
  • 13 Department of Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky Per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, 141700, Russia. Electronic address: blokhin@yandex.ru.
  • 14 ChemDiv, 6605 Nancy Ridge Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. Electronic address: akiselyov@chemdiv.com.
  • 15 Chemical Block Ltd, 3 Kyriacou Matsi, 3723 Limassol, Cyprus; N.K. Kol'tsov Institute of Developmental Biology RAS, 26 Vavilov Street, 119334 Moscow, Russian Federation. Electronic address: ms@chemical-block.com.
  • 16 N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, 47 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation; Chemical Block Ltd, 3 Kyriacou Matsi, 3723 Limassol, Cyprus. Electronic address: vs@zelinsky.ru.
Abstract

A series of 1,5-diaryl- and 4,5-diaryl-1,2,3-triazole derivatives of combretastatin A4 were synthesized and evaluated as antimitotic microtubule destabilizing agents using the sea urchin embryo model. Structure-activity relationship studies identified compounds substituted with 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl and 3,4-methylenedioxy-5-methoxyphenyl ring A and 4-methoxyphenyl ring B as potent antiproliferative agents with high cytotoxicity against a panel of human Cancer cell lines including multi-drug resistant cells. 4,5-Diaryl-1,2,3-triazoles (C-C geometry) were found to be considerably more active than the respective 1,5-diaryl-1,2,3-triazoles (N-C geometry). Compound 10ad' induced G2/M cell cycle arrest and Apoptosis in human T-leukemia Jurkat cells via Caspase 2/3/9 activation and downregulation of the antiapoptotic protein XIAP. A mitotic catastrophe has been evaluated as another possible cell death mode.

Keywords

1,2,3-Triazole; AODAGYGNZDUVNE-UHFFFAOYSA-N; ASLUYQCBIKMJEU-UHFFFAOYSA-N; Apoptosis; B-cell lymphoma 2; BKSKBNPDOWPAIO-UHFFFAOYSA-N; BLZMTDZGGLTDRK-UHFFFAOYSA-N; Bcl-2; CA2; CA4; CA4 disodium phosphate; CA4P; Caspases; DGTARDXIKVVWRO-UHFFFAOYSA-N; DOZOVRQLBANESF-UHFFFAOYSA-N; FODBYKDYGDVMRL-UHFFFAOYSA-N; FXJWTEDHYUZWTB-UHFFFAOYSA-N; GMMZILPCMBXPAN-UHFFFAOYSA-N; GZOVKXTXKMUHLY-UHFFFAOYSA-N; HDKAKWQYWMYIBD-UHFFFAOYSA-N; HHGRWXNBXGCVQC-UHFFFAOYSA-N; IMOWNIZUMDTJSQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N; JHZMSGCUGQSNOA-UHFFFAOYSA-N; JNDJXILHVKVNJP-UHFFFAOYSA-N; KAADNOIRUAPIJA-UHFFFAOYSA-N; KSXSFROOOPRMBN-UHFFFAOYSA-N; LDAGHTYWGJDFRH-UHFFFAOYSA-N; MNDDRAXBOYBUGK-UHFFFAOYSA-N; Microtubule destabilizing agents; MoAb; OXFHSVYQNFVGTK-UHFFFAOYSA-N; PARP-1; PI; PLIMGILENGQOOC-UHFFFAOYSA-N; Plant polyalkoxybenzenes; QZZHJHZNLFRILP-UHFFFAOYSA-N; SAR; Sea urchin embryo; VFOXVLIPSYMQEK-UHFFFAOYSA-N; VYIKEPOZDAQBBG-UHFFFAOYSA-N; X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis; XAYFGZPYFSZKTA-UHFFFAOYSA-N; XIAP; YZUDFBGHMYEADF-UHFFFAOYSA-N; combretastatin A-2; combretastatin A-4; monoclonal antibody; poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1; propidium iodide; structure–activity relationship.

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