Effect of 9-hydroxy-α- and 7-hydroxy-β-pyran Naphthoquinones on Trypanosoma cruzi and Structure-activity Relationship Studies
作者:David Rochaa、Alessandra Souza、Ana Souza、Helena Castro、Carlos Rodrigues、Rubem Menna-Barreto、Solange Castro、Vitor Ferreira
DOI:10.2174/1573406410666131229151303
日期:2014.8.4
The available treatment for the prevention and cure of Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma
cruzi, is still unsatisfactory. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop new drugs. In the last few years, our research group
has focused on finding a new chemical entity able to target the infectious bloodstream trypomastigotes. In this study, we
assayed 16 β-lapachone analogous with modifications in the pyran and aromatic ring to find a new prototype with high
trypanocidal activity. Interestingly, two ortho-naphthoquinones presented the best trypanocidal profile (8c and 8d with an
IC50/24 h of 26.9 ± 1.3 and 23.5 ± 2.5 μM, respectively), which were 4 to 17 times more effective than β-lapachone (391.5
± 16.5 μM) and the standard drug benznidazole (103.6 ± 0.6 μM). The introduction of a hydroxyl group on the
compounds’ aromatic ring modulated their biological profile by increasing their activity not only for cancer cells (MDAMB435),
as previously described in literature, but also against T. cruzi. The Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) study
indicated that this introduction modulated HOMO and MEP parameters, improving the trypanocidal activity.
预防和治疗由原生动物锥虫引起的恰加斯病的可用治疗方法
克鲁兹,仍然不满意。因此,迫切需要开发新药。近几年来,我们课题组
专注于寻找一种能够针对传染性血流锥鞭毛体的新化学实体。在这项研究中,我们
分析了 16 β-lapachone 类似物,并在吡喃和芳环上进行了修饰,以找到具有高
杀锥虫活性。有趣的是,两种邻萘醌具有最佳的杀锥虫特性(8c 和 8d
IC50/24 h 分别为 26.9 ± 1.3 和 23.5 ± 2.5 μM),比 β-拉帕酮(391.5
± 16.5 μM) 和标准药物苯并硝唑 (103.6 ± 0.6 μM)。在其上引入羟基
化合物的芳香环不仅通过增加癌细胞的活性来调节其生物学特征(MDAMB435),
正如之前文献中所描述的,但也针对 T. cruzi。构效关系 (SAR) 研究
表明这种引入调节了 HOMO 和 MEP 参数,提高了杀锥虫活性。