Esters and amides of maslinic acid trigger apoptosis in human tumor cells and alter their mode of action with respect to the substitution pattern at C-28
摘要:
Cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed diseases worldwide; its mortality rate is high, and there is still a demand for the development of antitumor active drugs. Triterpenoic acids show many pharmacological effects, among them antitumor activity. One of these, maslinic acid-1 is of interest because of its antitumor profile. It is not only cytotoxic but also triggers apoptosis in various human tumor cell lines. To improve the cytotoxicity of parent 1 we set out to synthesize a series of esters and amides differing in structure and lipophilicity. These compounds were tested in a sulforhodamine B assay for cytotoxicity, and screened for their ability to induce apoptosis using an acridine orange/propidium iodide assay, DNA laddering and cell cycle experiments. Esters containing small-chain, lipophilic residues increased the cytotoxicity whereas amides as well long-chain esters led to a decrease in activity. The antitumor activity seems to be independent from the substitution pattern at position C-28 for esters and amides but alters their mode of action. (C) 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Maslinic acid (2 alpha,3 beta-dihydroxyolean-12-en-28-oic acid), a natural dihydroxylated pentacyclic triterpene acid isolated from olive-pressing residues, has been investigated together with some of its derivatives regarding the induction of apoptosis in B16F10 melanoma cells. Some of the compounds tested are described in this work, but others come from previous studies. Ten of these derivatives induce over 80% of apoptosis, clearly promoting cell death in B16F10 melanoma. By contrast, the induction cell death through necrosis was very slightly significant with these compounds. These results indicate that maslinic acid derivatives are promising chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agents. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.