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Design, synthesis and evaluation of novel ErbB/HDAC multitargeted inhibitors with selectivity in EGFRT790M mutant cell lines

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2021 Mar 5:213:113173. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113173.
Lei Zhao 1 Tingting Fan 2 Zhichao Shi 1 Chao Ding 3 Cunlong Zhang 3 Zigao Yuan 3 Qinsheng Sun 3 Chunyan Tan 3 Bizhu Chu 4 Yuyang Jiang 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China; Department of Chemistry Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China.
  • 4 Institute of Biomedical Health Technology and Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518132, PR China. Electronic address: chubz@szbl.ac.cn.
  • 5 Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China; Department of Chemistry Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China; Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China; Institute of Biomedical Health Technology and Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518132, PR China. Electronic address: jiangyy@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Abstract

Acquired resistance leads to the failure of EGFR TKIs in NSCLC treatment. A novel series of hydroxamic acid-containing 4-aminoquinazoline derivatives as irreversible ErbB/HDAC multitargeted inhibitors for NSCLC therapy had been designed and synthesized, which displayed weak anti-proliferative activity in several EGFR wild-type Cancer cell lines (NCI-H838, SK-BR-3, A549, A431) yet retained moderate activity to EGFRT790M resistance mutation harboring NCI-H1975 cells. The mechanistic studies revealed that the representative compound 11e was able to inhibit the phosphorylation of EGFR, up-regulate hyperacetylation of histone H3 and even reduce the expression of EGFR and Akt in NCI-H1975 cells. In further assays, compound 11e also showed moderate anti-proliferative activity in Other EGFRT790M harboring tumor cell lines (NCI-H820, Ba/F3_EGFR_Del19-T790M-C797S) and low toxicities in normal cell lines (HL-7702, FHC). This selectivity of designed multitargeted compounds could serve as a potential strategy to circumvent multiple mechanisms of acquired resistance to EGFR-targeted therapy without severe toxicities and side effects resulting from broad inhibition.

Keywords

Drug design; EGFR(T790M) mutant; HDAC; Multitargeted compounds; NSCLC.

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