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Identification of new halogen-containing 2,4-diphenyl indenopyridin-5-one derivative as a boosting agent for the anticancer responses of clinically available topoisomerase inhibitors

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2022 Jan 5:227:113916. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113916.
Soo-Yeon Hwang 1 Aarajana Shrestha 2 Seojeong Park 1 Ganesh Bist 2 Surendra Kunwar 2 Tara Man Kadayat 2 Haejin Jang 1 Minjung Seo 1 Naeun Sheen 1 Seojeong Kim 1 Kyung-Hwa Jeon 1 Eung-Seok Lee 3 Youngjoo Kwon 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 College of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 03760, Republic of Korea.
  • 2 College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Republic of Korea.
  • 3 College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: eslee@yu.ac.kr.
  • 4 College of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 03760, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: ykwon@ewha.ac.kr.
Abstract

Based on previous reports on the significance of halogen moieties and the indenopyridin-5-one skeleton, we designed and synthesized a novel series of halogen (F-, Cl-, Br-, CF3- and OCF3-)-containing 2,4-diphenyl indenopyridin-5-ones and their corresponding -5-ols. Unlike indenopyridin-5-ols, most of the prepared indenopyridin-5-ones with Cl-, Br-, and CF3- groups at the 2-phenyl ring conferred a strong dual Topoisomerase I/IIα inhibitory effect. Among the series, para-bromophenyl substituted compound 9 exhibited the most potent Topoisomerase inhibition and antiproliferative effects, which showed dependency upon the Topoisomerase gene expression level of diverse Cancer cells. In particular, as a DNA minor groove-binding non-intercalative Topoisomerase I/IIα catalytic inhibitor, compound 9 synergistically promoted the Anticancer efficacy of clinically applied Topoisomerase I/IIα poisons both in vitro and in vivo, having the great advantage of alleviating poison-related toxicities.

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