New Tricks for an Old Natural Product: Discovery of Highly Potent Evodiamine Derivatives as Novel Antitumor Agents by Systemic Structure–Activity Relationship Analysis and Biological Evaluations
摘要:
Evodiamine is a quinazolinocarboline alkaloid isolated from the fruits of traditional Chinese herb Evodiae fructus. Previously, we identified N13-substituted evodiamine derivatives as potent topoisomerase I inhibitors by structure-based virtual screening and lead optimization. Herein, a library of novel evodiamine derivatives bearing various substitutions or modified scaffold were synthesized. Among them, a number of evodiamine derivatives showed substantial increase of the antitumor activity, with GI(50) values lower than 3 nM. Moreover, these highly potent compounds can effectively induce the apoptosis of A549 cells. Interestingly, further computational target prediction calculations in combination with biological assays confirmed that the evodiamine derivatives acted by dual inhibition of topoisomerases I and II. Moreover, several hydroxyl derivatives, such as 10-hydroxyl evodiamine (10j) and 3-amino-10-hydroxyl evodiamine (18g), also showed good in vivo antitumor efficacy and low toxicity at the dose of 1 mg/kg or 2 mg/kg. They represent promising candidates for the development of novel antitumor agents.
Scaffold Hopping of Natural Product Evodiamine: Discovery of a Novel Antitumor Scaffold with Excellent Potency against Colon Cancer
摘要:
Inspired by the natural product evodiamine, a novel antitumor indolopyrazinoquinazolinone scaffold was designed by scaffold hopping. Structure-activity relationship studies led to the discovery of compound 15j, which shows low nanomolar inhibitory activity against the HCT116 cell line. Further antitumor mechanism studies indicated that compound 15j acted by the dual inhibition of topoisomerase 1 and tubulin and induced apoptosis with G2 cell-cycle arrest. The quaternary ammonium salt of compound 15j (compound 15js) exhibited excellent in vivo antitumor activity (TGI = 66.6%) in the HCT116 xenograft model with low toxicity. Indolopyrazinoquinazolinone derivatives represent promising multitargeting antitumor leads for the development of novel antitumor agents.
Synthesis of Xanthones, Thioxanthones, and Acridones by the Coupling of Arynes and Substituted Benzoates
作者:Jian Zhao、Richard C. Larock
DOI:10.1021/jo0620718
日期:2007.1.1
The reaction of silylaryl triflates, CsF, and ortho-heteroatom-substituted benzoates affords a general and efficient way to prepare biologically interesting xanthones, thioxanthones, and acridones. This chemistry presumably proceeds by a tandem intermolecular nucleophilic coupling of the benzoate with an aryne and a subsequent intramolecular electrophilic cyclization.
of evodiamine derivatives 2 and 3 were obtained by straightforward asymmetric totalsynthesis. Their inhibitory activities toward topoisomerases I and II and their cytotoxicities in cancer cell lines were evaluated. All the four isomers exhibited good to excellent antitumor potency and the (S)-isomers were generally more active than the (R)-isomers. The binding modes of (S)-2 with topoisomerases I and
Doublecortin-like kinase1 (DCLK) is a microtubule-associated serine/threonine kinase that is upregulated in a wide range of cancers and is believed to be related to tumour growth and development. ...
作者:Thomas Sephton、Jonathan M. Large、Louise S. Natrajan、Sam Butterworth、Michael F. Greaney
DOI:10.1002/anie.202407979
日期:2024.8.26
A photocatalytic, XAT mediated Smiles-Truce biaryl synthesis is described. The reaction uses mild methods to generate and chemoselectively harness capricious aryl radicals, efficiently furnishing valuable biaryl products. The reaction utilises a simple yet underexplored amide linker, which enables a challenging formal C−N arylation of anilines.
作者:Brian J. Groendyke、Chelsea E. Powell、Frederic Feru、Thomas W. Gero、Zhengnian Li、Hilary Szabo、Kevin Pang、John Feutrill、Bailing Chen、Bin Li、Nathanael S. Gray、David A. Scott
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.126948
日期:2020.2
The SAR of a series of benzopyrimidodiazepinone inhibitors of TNK2 was developed, starting from the potent and selective compound XMD8-87. A diverse set of anilines was introduced in an effort to improve the in vivo PK profile and minimize the risk of quinone diimine formation.