Purine and 8-substituted purine arabinofuranosyl and ribofuranosyl nucleoside derivatives as potential inducers of the differentiation of the Friend erythroleukemia
摘要:
Several antimetabolites have been demonstrated to have the capacity to initiate differentiation in vitro of a variety of leukemic cell lines. To explore the structural requirements for this activity, a series of purine and 8-substituted purine arabinofuranosyl and ribofuranosyl nucleoside derivatives were synthesized and tested as inducers of the differentiation of Friend murine erythroleukemia cells. 9-(beta-D-Arabinofuranosyl)hypoxanthine and 6-(hydroxyamino)-9-(beta-D-arabinofuranosyl)purine were effective inducers of maturation, producing 82% and 74% benzidine-positive cells, a measure of the number of cells synthesizing hemoglobin. 6-Mercapto-9-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl)purine and 6-(methylmercapto)-9-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl)purine and their corresponding beta-D-arabinofuranosyl derivatives were also effective initiators of maturation, causing approximately 50% of the cell population to assume a differentiated phenotype.
experimental results indicate that of the twenty newly synthesized imidazole-coumarin conjugates, three of them exhibited appealing EC50 values (5.1-8.4 μM) and selective indices >20 against hepatitis C virus. Their potency and selectivity were increased substantially by modification of their structure with two factors: imidazole nucleus with a hydrogen atom at the N(1) position and coumarin nucleus