scholarly journals Design and Synthesis of Benzimidazole-Chalcone Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Agents

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (18) ◽  
pp. 3259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsieh ◽  
Ko ◽  
Chang ◽  
Kapoor ◽  
Liang ◽  
...  

Numerous reports have shown that conjugated benzimidazole derivatives possess various kinds of biological activities, including anticancer properties. In this report, we designed and synthesized 24 new molecules comprising a benzimidazole ring, arene, and alkyl chain-bearing cyclic moieties. The results showed that the N-substituted benzimidazole derivatives bearing an alkyl chain and a nitrogen-containing 5- or 6-membered ring enhanced the cytotoxic effects on human breast adenocarcinoma (MCF-7) and human ovarian carcinoma (OVCAR-3) cell lines. Among the 24 synthesized compounds, (2E)-1-(1-(3-morpholinopropyl)-1H-benzimidazol-2 -yl)-3-phenyl-2-propen-1-one) (23a) reduced the proliferation of MCF-7 and OVCAR-3 cell lines demonstrating superior outcomes to those of cisplatin.

Author(s):  
Zeinab Faghih ◽  
Zahra Faghih ◽  
Masoomeh Divar ◽  
Soghra Khabnadideh

Aims: Isatin is a honored scaffold and one of the most favorable class of heterocyclic systems that possesses many interesting biological activities and well-tolerated in humans. Here a series of fifteen spirooxindole-4H-pyran derivatives containing both isatin and pyran moieties (ICa-ICo) will be examine for their anti-cancer activity. Study Design: Cytotoxic evaluation of some spirooxindole-4H-pyran derivatives in two cancerous cell lines.  Place and Duration of Study: Pharmaceutical Science Research Center and Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research, Medical School in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, between June 2018 and July 2019. Methodology: MTT assay was used to evaluate the cytotoxic activities of these compounds. The anticancer properties of the tested compounds were determined using A549 and MCF-7 cell lines. Results: Among the tested compounds ICc, ICd and ICf showed the best cytotoxic activities  against both cancerous cell lines. Compounds ICh and ICj showed desirable cytotoxic activities against A549 cell line. Compound ICb showed desirable cytotoxic activities against MCF-7 cell line. Conclusion: We conclude that the isatin-linked pyran analog can serve as a prototype molecule for further development of a new class of anticancer agents.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (35) ◽  
pp. 5970-6014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Jawaid Akhtar ◽  
Mohammad Shahar Yar ◽  
Vinod Kumar Sharma ◽  
Ahsan Ahmed Khan ◽  
Zulphikar Ali ◽  
...  

This review presents the detailed account of factors leading to cancer and design strategy for the synthesis of benzimidazole derivatives as anticancer agents. The recent survey for cancer treatment in Cancer facts and figures 2017 American Chemical Society has shown progressive development in fighting cancer. Researchers all over the world in both developed and developing countries are in a continuous effort to tackle this serious concern. Benzimidazole and its derivatives showed a broad range of biological activities due to their resemblance with naturally occurring nitrogenous base i.e. purine. The review discussed benzimidazole derivatives showing anticancer properties through a different mechanism viz. intercalation, alkylating agents, topoisomerases, DHFR enzymes, and tubulin inhibitors. Benzimidazole derivatives act through a different mechanism and the substituents reported from the earlier and recent research articles are prerequisites for the synthesis of targeted based benzimidazole derivatives as anticancer agents. The review focuses on an easy comparison of the substituent essential for potency and selectivity through SAR presented in figures. This will further provide a better outlook or fulfills the challenges faced in the development of novel benzimidazole derivatives as anticancer.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenza Barresi ◽  
Carmela Bonaccorso ◽  
Domenico A. Cristaldi ◽  
Maria N. Modica ◽  
Nicolò Musso ◽  
...  

Recent drug discovery efforts are highly focused towards identification, design, and synthesis of small molecules as anticancer agents. With this aim, we recently designed and synthesized novel compounds with high efficacy and specificity for the treatment of breast tumors. Based on the obtained results, we constructed a Volsurf+ (VS+) model using a dataset of 59 compounds able to predict the in vitro antitumor activity against MCF-7 cancer cell line for new derivatives. In the present paper, in order to further verify the robustness of this model, we report the results of the projection of more than 150 known molecules and 9 newly synthesized compounds. We predict their activity versus MCF-7 cell line and experimentally verify the in silico results for some promising chosen molecules in two human breast cell lines, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mashooq Ahmad Bhat ◽  
M. Al-Tahhan ◽  
Mohamed A. Al-Omar ◽  
Ahmed M. Naglah ◽  
Abdullah Al-Dhfyan

Background: Thiosemicarbazones and its derivatives received a great pharmaceutical importance due to their prominent biological activities. Methods: A series of disubstituted thiosemicarbazone derivatives (1-12) were designed and synthesized as pure compounds in good yield. All the synthesized compounds were analyzed by spectral data. The anticancer activity of all the compounds was performed against breast cancer MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines. Results: Most of the compounds showed activity against breast cancer MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines with (IC50 = 12.25 µM ‒ 185.35 µM) and (IC50 = 12.97 µM ‒ 107.33 µM), respectively. Compound 9 presented (IC50 = 12.76 µM and 12.97 µM) against MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines, respectively. Conclusion: Compound 9, was found to exhibit significant anti-breast cancer activity. This compound was further evaluated for side population percent inhibition assay on the breast cancer cell line MCF-7 at 5 and 10 µM concentration. It showed superiority to block side population by more than 80% at 5 μM concentration compared to the reference drug verapamil.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1606-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehlika D. Altıntop ◽  
Belgin Sever ◽  
Ahmet Özdemir ◽  
Sinem Ilgın ◽  
Özlem Atlı ◽  
...  

Background and Methods: In an attempt to develop potent antitumor agents, the synthesis of a series of N-(6-substituted benzothiazol-2-yl)-2-[(5-(arylamino)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio]acetamides (1-14) was described and their cytotoxic effects on A549 human lung adenocarcinoma, MCF-7 human breast adenocarcinoma, HepG2 human hepatocellular carcinoma and NIH/3T3 mouse embryonic fibroblast cell lines were investigated using MTT assay. <p> Results: Phenyl-substituted compounds (8-14) were found to be more effective than naphthyl-substituted compounds (1-7) on cancer cells. Compounds 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 were identified as the most potent anticancer agents on MCF-7 and HepG2 cell lines and therefore their effects on DNA synthesis and apoptosis/necrosis in MCF-7 cell line were evaluated. Among these compounds, N-(6-methoxybenzothiazol-2-yl)-2-[(5- (phenylamino)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio]acetamide (13) was the most selective anticancer agent against MCF-7 and HepG2 cell lines with a SI value of 100. On the other hand, compounds 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 inhibited DNA synthesis in MCF-7 cell line in a dose-dependent manner. Flow cytometric analyses clearly indicated that the compounds showed significant anticancer activity against MCF-7 cell line via the induction of apoptosis dose dependently. <p> Conclusion: According to in vitro assays, compounds 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 stand out as promising candidates for further studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1062-1073
Author(s):  
Lamia A. Siddig ◽  
Mohammad A. Khasawneh ◽  
Abdelouahid Samadi ◽  
Haythem Saadeh ◽  
Nael Abutaha ◽  
...  

Abstract A new series of urea and thiourea derivatives containing benzimidazole group as potential anticancer agents have been designed and synthesized. The structures of the synthesized compounds were characterized and confirmed by spectroscopic techniques such as 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and mass spectrometry. In vitro anticancer assay against two breast cancer (BC) cell lines, MDA-MB-231ER(−)/PR(−) and MCF-7ER(+)/PR(+), revealed that the cytotoxicity of 1-(2-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-ylamino)ethyl)-3-p-tolylthiourea (7b) and 4-(1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)-N-(3-chlorophenyl)piperazine-1-carboxamide (5d) were higher in MCF-7 with IC50 values of 25.8 and 48.3 µM, respectively, as compared with MDA-MB-231 cells. Furthermore, 7b and 5d were assessed for their apoptotic potential using 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, acridine orange/ethidium bromide staining, and Caspase-3/7. After incubation with MCF-7, the compounds 7b and 5d induced apoptosis through caspase-3/7 activation. In conclusion, the compounds 7b and 5d are potential candidates for inducing apoptosis in different genotypic BC cell lines.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (20) ◽  
pp. 11299
Author(s):  
Li Zhang ◽  
Xue-Zhen Feng ◽  
Zhuan-Quan Xiao ◽  
Guo-Rong Fan ◽  
Shang-Xing Chen ◽  
...  

β-pinene is a monoterpene isolated from turpentine oil and numerous other plants’ essential oils, which has a broad spectrum of biological activities. In the current work, six novel β-pinene quaternary ammonium (β-PQA) salts were synthesized and evaluated in vitro for their antifungal, antibacterial and anticancer activities. The in vitro assay results revealed that compounds 4a and 4b presented remarkable antimicrobial activity against the tested fungi and bacteria. In particular, compound 4a showed excellent activities against F. oxysporum f.sp. niveum, P. nicotianae var.nicotianae, R. solani, D. pinea and Fusicoccumaesculi, with EC50 values of 4.50, 10.92, 9.45, 10.82 and 6.34 μg/mL, respectively. Moreover, compound 4a showed the best antibacterial action against E. coli, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus and B. subtilis, with MIC at 2.5, 0.625, 1.25 and 1.25 μg/mL, respectively. The anticancer activity results demonstrated that compounds 4a, 4b, 4c and 4f exhibited remarkable activity against HCT-116 and MCF-7 cell lines, with IC50 values ranged from 1.10 to 25.54 μM. Notably, the compound 4c displayed the strongest cytotoxicity against HCT-116 and MCF-7 cell lines, with the IC50 values of 1.10 and 2.46 μM, respectively. Furthermore, preliminary antimicrobial mechanistic studies revealed that compound 4a might cause mycelium abnormalities of microbial, cell membrane permeability changes and inhibition of the activity of ATP. Altogether, these findings open interesting perspectives to the application of β-PQA salts as a novel leading structure for the development of effective antimicrobial and anticancer agents.


Author(s):  
Pratik Yadav ◽  
Ashish Kumar ◽  
Ismail Althagafi ◽  
Vishal Nemaysh ◽  
Reeta Rai ◽  
...  

: Tetrahydroquinoline and isoquinoline scaffolds are important class heterocyclic compounds, which is implied for the development of new drugs and diagnostic for therapeutic function. Naturally occurring as well as synthetic tetrahydroquinolines/isoquinolines possess many different biological activities and have been testified as remarkable cytotoxic and potency in human cancer cell lines. Tetrahydroquinoline/isoquinolines based compounds displayed a key role in the development of anticancer drugs or lead molecules and acting through various mechanisms such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, DNA fragmentation, inhibition of tubulin polymerization, induced cell cycle arrest, interruption of cell migration, and modulation. The number of tetrahydroquinoline/isoquinoline derivatives has been reported as potent anticancer agents. Due to promising anticancer activities and wide-ranging properties of these molecules, we have compiled the literature for the synthesis and anticancer properties of various tetrahydroquinolines and isoquinolines. We have reported the synthesis of potent tetrahydroquinoline/isoquinoline molecules of the last 10 years with their anticancer properties in various cancer cell lines and stated their half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50). In addition, we also considered the discussion of molecular docking and structural activity relationship wherever provided to understand the possible mode of activity a target involved and structural feature responsible for the better activity, so the reader can directly find the detail for designing new anticancer agents.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Erguc ◽  
Mehlika Dilek Altintop ◽  
Ozlem Atli ◽  
Belgin Sever ◽  
Gokalp Iscan ◽  
...  

Background: In medicinal chemistry, thiazoles have gained great importance in antifungal and anticancer drug design and development. Objectives: The aim of this study was to synthesize new quinoline-based thiazolyl hydrazone derivatives and evaluate their anticandidal and anticancer effects. Methods: New thiazolyl hydrazone derivatives were evaluated for their anticandidal effects using disc diffusion method. Ames MPF assay was carried out to determine the genotoxicity of the most effective antifungal derivative. MTT assay was also performed to assess the cytotoxic effects of the compounds on A549 human lung adenocarcinoma, HepG2 human hepatocellular carcinoma, MCF- 7 human breast adenocarcinoma and NIH/3T3 mouse embryonic fibroblast (healthy) cell lines. Methods: Results: 4-(4-Fluorophenyl)-2-(2-((quinolin-4-yl)methylene)hydrazinyl)thiazole (4) showed antifungal activity against Candida albicans and Candida krusei in the concentration of 1 mg/mL. In MTT and Ames MPF tests, it was determined that compound 4 did not show cytotoxic and genotoxic effects. MTT assay indicated that 4-(naphthalen-2-yl)-2-(2-((quinolin-4-yl)methylene) hydrazinyl)thiazole (10) showed more selective anticancer activity than cisplatin against A549 and MCF-7 cell lines. Besides, 4-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-(2-((quinolin-4-yl)methylene)hydrazinyl)thiazole (5) exhibited more selective anticancer activity than cisplatin against HepG2 cell line. Conclusion: Due to their high selectivity index, these compounds are considered as candidate compounds to participate in further research.


Author(s):  
Mamatha S. V ◽  
S. L. Belagali ◽  
Mahesh Bhat ◽  
Vijay M. Kumbar

Background: Coumarin and benzophenone possess a vast sphere of biological activities whereas thiazoles display various pharmacological properties. Hence we focused on incorporation of coumarin and thiazole core to the benzophenone skeleton to enhance the bioactivity anticipating their interesting biological properties. Objective: The objective of the current work is synthesis and biological evaluation of a novel series of coumarin fused thiazole derivatives. Methods: A novel series of Coumarin conjugated thiazolyl acetamide hybrid derivatives were synthesized by multistep reaction sequence and were characterized by the FT-IR, LCMS and NMR spectral techniques. The newly synthesized compounds were screened for anticancer activity by in-silico and in-vitro methods. The cytotoxicity of the synthesized unique compounds had been executed for two different cancer cell lines MCF-7 (Breast cancer) and KB (Oral cancer) in comparison with standard paclitaxel by MTT assay. Results: The compound 7f is the potent motif with an acceptable range of IC 50 values for anticancer activity were 63.54 µg/ml and 55.67 µg/ml, against the MCF-7 and KB cell lines, respectively. Molecule docking model revealed that this compound formed three conventional hydrogen bonds with the active sites of the amino acids MET 769, ARG 817 and LYS 721. Conclusion: Compound 7f with two methyl groups on the phenoxy ring and one 4-position methoxy group on the benzoyl ring, showed a significant cytotoxic effect. An advantageous level of low toxicity against normal cell line (L292) by MTT assay was determined.


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