The present invention identifies the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, including the enzyme oxidosqualene cyclase, as new protein targets for anti-tumor therapeutics. The present invention further provides a class of oxidosqualene cyclase inhibitors containing a tertiary amine linked with aromatic ring structures, as a new class of anticancer agents. Compounds disclosed herein have been tested in 19 cell lines including breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer (including drug-resistant lung cancer H69AR), colon cancer, ovarian cancer (including drug-resistant OVCAR-3), and pancreatic cancer cells, as wells as in human breast and prostate xenograft tumor growth in nude mice, and have been shown to be active.
本发明确定了
胆固醇生物合成途径,包括酶氧化齐墩果烷环化酶,作为抗肿瘤治疗的新蛋白靶点。本发明还提供了一类含有与芳香环结构相连的三级胺的氧化齐墩果烷环化酶
抑制剂,作为一类新的抗癌剂。本文所披露的化合物已经在19种
细胞系中进行了测试,包括乳腺癌、前列腺癌、肺癌(包括耐药性肺癌H69AR)、结肠癌、卵巢癌(包括耐药性O
VCAR-3)和胰腺癌细胞,以及在裸鼠的人类乳腺和前列腺异种移植肿瘤生长中显示出活性。