作者:Guang-Hua Yan、Xiao-Fang Li、Bing-Chen Ge、Xiu-Dong Shi、Yu-Fang Chen、Xue-Mei Yang、Jiang-Ping Xu、Shu-Wen Liu、Pei-Liang Zhao、Zhong-Zhen Zhou、Chun-Qiong Zhou、Wen-Hua Chen
DOI:10.1016/j.ejmech.2014.11.030
日期:2015.1
This paper describes the synthesis and the antiproliferative activities of compounds 9a-r, 3-aryl analogs of flavone-8-acetic acid that bear diverse substituents on the benzene rings at the 2- and 3-positions of the flavone nucleus. Their direct and indirect cytotoxicities were evaluated against HT-29 human colon adenocarcinoma cell lines, A549 lung adenocarcinoma cell lines and Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (HPBMCs). The results indicate that most of the compounds bearing electron-withdrawing substituents (9b-m) exhibited moderate direct cytotoxicities. And compounds 9e and 9i showed comparable indirect cytotoxicities with 5, 6-dimethylxanthenone-4-acetic acid (DMXAA), and low direct cytotoxicities toward HPBMCs. Interestingly, the compounds 9n-r bearing methoxy groups at the 2- or 3-position of the flavone nucleus exhibited higher indirect cytotoxicities against A549 cell lines than DMXAA, and lower cytotoxicities against HPBMCs. In addition, compounds 9p-r were found to be able to induce tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) production in HPBMCs. (C) 2014 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.