New Benzimidazole-Derived Isothioureas as Potential Antileukemic Agents - Studies <i>In Vitro</i>
作者:Miroslawa Koronkiewicz、Anna Romiszewska、Zdzislaw Chilmonczyk、Zygmunt Kazimierczuk
DOI:10.2174/1573406410666141203124329
日期:2015.4.29
Isothioureas are a class of amphiphilic compounds carrying a highly basic isothiourea
group of pKa ranging between 10 and 11. Hence, they exist in protonated (cation) form at physiological
pH, a characteristic is of key importance for their pharmacological activity. Recently, we have
found that a number of S-pentabromobenzylisothiourea derivatives show substantial cytotoxicity toward
a variety of human glioblastoma, leukemia, and adenocarcinoma cell lines. Whereas there is a
growing body of data on aliphatic and alkylaromatic isothioureas, little attention was given to this day
to heterocyclic isotiourea derivatives. Here we report on the synthesis and pharmacological in vitro properties of 10 novel
S-(benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)- and S-(5,6-dichlorobenzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)isothiourea derivatives. The compounds were
obtained by the condensation of the respective 2-chloromethyl benzimidazoles with various substituted N(N’)-thioureas.
Besides the essential physicochemical characteristics (H-NMR, UV, elemental analysis) of the new compounds, their
log P values, which are of key importance for in vivo drug distribution and interactions, were determined. Pharmacological
(anticancer) activity of the compounds was evaluated based on their ability to induce apoptosis in exponentially growing
cultures of the human acute myelogenous leukemia cell line KG-1; the apoptosis was assessed with a variety of flow
cytometric methods. Of the novel compounds tested, the most potent apoptosis inducer in KG-1 cells was N-methyl-S-
(5,6-dichloro-1H-benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)isothiouronium chloride (ClBMMe).
异硫脲是一种两亲性化合物的类别,携带一个高碱性的异硫脲基团,其pKa值在10到11之间。因此,它们在生理pH下以质子化(阳离子)形式存在,这一特性对它们的药理活性至关重要。最近,我们发现一些S-五溴苄基异硫脲衍生物对多种人类胶质母细胞瘤、白血病和腺癌细胞系显示出显著的细胞毒性。尽管有关脂肪族和烷基芳香族异硫脲的数据越来越多,但至今对杂环异硫脲衍生物的关注较少。在这里,我们报道了10种新型S-(苯并咪唑-2-甲基)和S-(5,6-二氯苯并咪唑-2-甲基)异硫脲衍生物的合成及其体外药理学特性。这些化合物是通过相应的2-氯甲基苯并咪唑与各种取代的N(N’)-硫脲的缩合反应获得的。除了新化合物的重要物理化学特性(H-NMR、UV、元素分析)外,还测定了它们的关键性质——log P值,这对药物在体内的分布和相互作用至关重要。通过评估这些化合物在指数增长的KG-1人类急性髓系白血病细胞系中诱导凋亡的能力来评估其药理(抗癌)活性;凋亡是通过多种流式细胞术方法评估的。在测试的新化合物中,N-甲基-S-(5,6-二氯-1H-苯并咪唑-2-甲基)异硫脲氯化物(ClBMMe)在KG-1细胞中是最有效的凋亡诱导剂。