Synthesis and structure–activity relationships of benzophenone-bearing diketopiperazine-type anti-microtubule agents
作者:Yuri Yamazaki、Makiko Sumikura、Yurika Masuda、Yoshiki Hayashi、Hiroyuki Yasui、Yoshiaki Kiso、Takumi Chinen、Takeo Usui、Fumika Yakushiji、Barbara Potts、Saskia Neuteboom、Michael Palladino、George Kenneth Lloyd、Yoshio Hayashi
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2012.05.059
日期:2012.7
KPU-105 (4), a potent anti-microtubule agent that contains a benzophenone was derived from the dike-topiperazine-type vascular disrupting agent (VDA) plinabulin 3, which displays colchicine-like tubulin depolymerization activity. To develop derivatives with more potent anti-microtubule and cytotoxic activities, we further modified the benzophenone moiety of 4. Accordingly, we obtained a 4-fluorobenzophenone derivative 16j that inhibited tumor cell growth in vitro with a subnanomolar IC50 value against HT-29 cells (IC50 = 0.5 nM). Next, the effect of 16j on mitotic spindles was evaluated in HeLa cells. Treatment with 3 nM of 16j partially disrupted the interphase microtubule network. By contrast, treatment with the same concentration of CA-4 barely affected the microtubule network, indicating that 16j exhibited more potent anti-mitotic effects than did CA-4. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.