Synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-amino-3-(3′,4′,5′-trimethoxybenzoyl)-6-substituted-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno[2,3-c]pyridine derivatives as antimitotic agents and inhibitors of tubulin polymerization
作者:Romeo Romagnoli、Pier Giovanni Baraldi、Maria Dora Carrion、Olga Cruz-Lopez、Carlota Lopez Cara、Manlio Tolomeo、Stefania Grimaudo、Antonietta Di Cristina、Maria Rosa Pipitone、Jan Balzarini、Sahar Kandil、Andrea Brancale、Taradas Sarkar、Ernest Hamel
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.08.006
日期:2008.9
Microtubules are among the most successful targets of compounds potentially useful for cancer therapy. A new series of inhibitors of tubulin polymerization based on the 2-amino-3-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoyl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno[b]pyridine molecular skeleton was synthesized and evaluated for antiproliferative activity, inhibition of tubulin polymerization, and cell cycle effects. The most promising compound in this series was 2-amino-3-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoyl)-6-methoxycarbonyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno[b]pyridine, which inhibits cancer cell growth with IC50-values ranging from 25 to 90 nM against a panel of four cancer cell lines, and interacts strongly with tubulin by binding to the colchicine site. In this series of N-6-carbamate derivatives, any further increase in the length and in the size of the alkyl chain resulted in reduced activity. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.