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Design, synthesis, antiproliferative activity and docking studies of quinazoline derivatives bearing 2,3-dihydro-indole or 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline as potential EGFR inhibitors

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2018 Jun 25:154:29-43. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.05.006.
Yiqiang OuYang 1 Wensheng Zou 1 Liang Peng 1 Zunhua Yang 2 Qidong Tang 1 Mengzi Chen 1 Shuang Jia 1 Hong Zhang 1 Zhou Lan 1 Pengwu Zheng 3 Wufu Zhu 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Design and Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, China.
  • 2 College of Pharmacy, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, 330004, China.
  • 3 Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Design and Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, China. Electronic address: zhengpw@126.com.
  • 4 Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Design and Evaluation, School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, China. Electronic address: zhuwufu-1122@163.com.
Abstract

Eight series of quinazoline derivatives bearing 2,3-dihydro-indole or 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline were designed, synthesized and evaluated for the IC50 values against three Cancer cell lines (A549, MCF-7 and PC-3). Most of the forty nine target compounds showed excellent antiproliferative activity against one or several Cancer cell lines. The compound 13a showed the best activity against A549, MCF-7 and PC-3 Cancer cell lines, with the IC50 values of 1.09 ± 0.04 μM, 1.34 ± 0.13 μM and 1.23 ± 0.09 μM, respectively. Eight selected compounds were further selected to evaluated for the inhibitory activity against EGFR kinase. Three of them showed equal activity against EGFR kinase to positive control afatinib. AnnexinV-FITC, propidium iodide (PI) double staining and acridine orange single staining results indicated that the compound 13a could induce Apoptosis of human lung Cancer A549 cells.

Keywords

Antiproliferative activity; EGFR inhibitors; Quinazoline derivatives; Synthesis.

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