Cytotoxic Activity of Some Spirooxindole-4H-pyran Derivatives

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.

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

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules24183259 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (18) ◽

pp. 3259 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Hsieh ◽

Ko ◽

Chang ◽

Kapoor ◽

Liang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cell Lines ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Alkyl Chain ◽

Biological Activities ◽

Breast Adenocarcinoma ◽

Benzimidazole Derivatives ◽

Design And Synthesis ◽

Anticancer Properties ◽

Human Ovarian Carcinoma ◽

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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.

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In Vitro Evaluation of Chitosan Induced Cytotoxicity against Cancerous Cell lines: MCF-7, Saos-2 and HeLa

Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1871520619666190507113949 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

Author(s):

Zeinab Abedian ◽

Niloofar Jenabian ◽

Ali Akbar Moghadamnia ◽

Ebrahim Zabihi ◽

Roghayeh Pourbagher ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Flow Cytometry ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Fibroblast Cells ◽

Apoptosis Induction ◽

Cytotoxic Effects ◽

Cancerous Cell ◽

Significant Concentration ◽

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Objective/ Background: Cancer is still the most common cause of morbidity in world and new powerful anticancer agents without severe side effects from natural sources is important. Methods: The evaluation of cytotoxicity and apoptosis induction was carried out in MCF-7,HeLa and Saos-2 as cancerous cell lines with different histological origin and human fibroblast served as control normal cell. The cells were treated with different concentrations of chitosan and the cytotoxicity was determined using MTT assay after 24, 48 and 72 h .The mode of death was evaluated by flow cytometry . Results: While both types of chitosan showed significant concentration-dependently cytotoxic effects against the three cancerous cell lines, fibroblast cells showed somehow more compatibility with chitosan. On the other hand, there were no significant differences between LMWC and HMWC cytotoxicity in all cell lines. The flow cytometry results showed the apoptosis pattern of death more in Saos-2 and HeLa while necrosis was more observable with MCF7. Also higher viability with both types of chitosan was seen in fibroblast as normal cells Conclusion: Chitosan shows anticancerous effect against 3 cancerous cell lines, while it is compatible with normal diploid fibroblast cells. Furthermore, it seems that the molecular weight of chitosan does not affect its anticancerous property.

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Bimetallic Iron–Palladium Catalyst System as a Lewis-Acid for the Synthesis of Novel Pharmacophores Based Indole Scaffold as Anticancer Agents

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26082212 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (8) ◽

pp. 2212

Author(s):

Mohammad Shahidul Islam ◽

M. Ali ◽

Abdullah Mohammed Al-Majid ◽

Abdullah Saleh Alamary ◽

Saeed Alshahrani ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Prostate Cancer ◽

Cell Line ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Cancer Cell ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Palladium Catalyst ◽

Cancer Cell Line ◽

Catalyst System ◽

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Iron Palladium

The Friedel–Crafts reaction between substituted indoles as nucleophiles with chalcones-based benzofuran and benzothiophene scaffolds was carried out by employing a highly efficient bimetallic iron–palladium catalyst system. This catalytic approach produced the desired bis-heteroaryl products with low catalyst loading, a simple procedure, and with acceptable yield. All synthesized indole scaffolds 3a–3s were initially evaluated for their cytotoxic effect against human fibroblast BJ cell lines and appeared to be non-cytotoxic. All non-cytotoxic compounds 3a–3s were then evaluated for their anticancer activities against cervical cancer HeLa, prostate cancer PC3, and breast cancer MCF-7 cell lines, in comparison to standard drug doxorubicin, with IC50 values 1.9 ± 0.4 µM, 0.9 ± 0.14 µM and 0.79 ± 0.05 µM, respectively, and appeared to be moderate to weak anticancer agents. Fluoro-substituted chalcone moiety-containing compounds, 3b appeared to be the most active member of the series against cervical HeLa (IC50 = 8.2 ± 0.2 µM) and breast MCF-7 cancer cell line (IC50 = 12.3 ± 0.04 µM), whereas 6-fluroindol-4-bromophenyl chalcone-containing compound 3e (IC50 = 7.8 ± 0.4 µM) appeared to be more active against PC3 prostate cancer cell line.

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Synthesis and Experimental Validation of New Designed Heterocyclic Compounds with Antiproliferative Activity versus Breast Cancer Cell Lines MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231

Journal of Chemistry ◽

10.1155/2017/9729284 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Vincenza Barresi ◽

Carmela Bonaccorso ◽

Domenico A. Cristaldi ◽

Maria N. Modica ◽

Nicolò Musso ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cell Line ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Cancer Cell ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Cancer Cell Line ◽

Breast Cancer Cell Lines ◽

Design And Synthesis ◽

Human Breast Cell ◽

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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.

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Cytotoxic Activity of Major Compounds from Phaleria macrocarpa (Scheff.) Boerl. Fruits

Jurnal Teknologi ◽

10.11113/jt.v64.2044 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Siti Nur Atiqah Md Othman ◽

Norazah Basar ◽

Siti Pauliena Mohd Bohari

Keyword(s):

Cytotoxic Activity ◽

Cell Line ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Fibroblast Cell ◽

Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast ◽

Cytotoxic Activities ◽

Anticancer Properties ◽

Cervical Carcinoma Cell Line ◽

Cell Line Hela ◽

3T3 Cell Lines

P. macrocarpa is a well known Indonesian medicinal plant which is traditionally claimed to have anticancer properties. To date, there are numerous cytotoxic studies conducted on crude extracts of this plant. However, there are limited informations available regarding cytotoxic activity of the compounds isolated from this plant. Thus, this study investigated cytotoxic activity of two benzophenones derivatives identified as 2,6,4'-trihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone (1) and 6,4'-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone-2-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (2) isolated from the ethyl acetate extract. Cytotoxic activities of these compounds were performed against human cervical carcinoma cell line (HeLa) and mouse embryonic fibroblast cell line (3T3) using MTT assay. The result showed that benzophenone (1) exhibited low cytotoxic effect against HeLa and 3T3 cell lines with IC50 values of 132 µg/ml and 158 µg/ml, repectively while benzophenone (2) was non toxic against HeLa and 3T3 cell lines are because the IC50 is more than 250 µg/ml. These findings may sheds light on the actual properties of this plant.

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New biological findings of ethanol and chloroform extracts of fungi Suillellus rubrosanguineus and Tylopilus felleus

Interdisciplinary Toxicology ◽

10.2478/intox-2018-0018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 204-208

Author(s):

Ivana Šušaníková ◽

Adriána Kvasnicová ◽

Žofia Brzková ◽

Ondrej Ďuriška ◽

Pavel Mučaji

Keyword(s):

Cell Line ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Cancer Cell ◽

Biological Activities ◽

Cancer Cell Line ◽

Middle Europe ◽

Dragendorff Reagent ◽

Nih 3T3 ◽

Clinical Experiments ◽

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Abstract The aim of the research was to determine some basic biological activities of less biomedically studied but commonly known two fungi from the Boletaceae family Suillellus rubrosanguineus and Tylopilus felleus, which grow in the forests of Middle Europe. The cytotoxicity tests of the ethanol and chloroform extracts were carried out using NIH-3T3 and MCF-7 cell lines. The presence of alkaloids in the extracts was assessed by the reaction with Dragendorff reagent. In all of the extracts the positive reaction with the reagent was observed. In general, the extracts from Suillellus rubrosanguineus were more cytotoxic than the extracts from Tylopilus felleus and exhibited no selectivity of activities on healthy and cancer cell lines. However, the extracts from Tylopilus felleus proved to be selectively cytotoxic for cancer cell line. Tylopilus extracts or their isolated bioactive compounds could be considered for further study in pre-clinical experiments.

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Design, Synthesis, Molecular Docking, ADME and Biological Evaluation Studies of Some New 1,3,4-oxadiazole Linked Benzimidazoles as Anticancer Agents and Aromatase Inhibitors

10.21203/rs.3.rs-975581/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

ulviye acar çevik ◽

Ismail Celik ◽

Ayşen IŞIK ◽

Yusuf Özkay ◽

Zafer Asım Kaplancıklı

Keyword(s):

Molecular Docking ◽

Cell Line ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Evaluation Studies ◽

Biological Evaluation ◽

Binding Modes ◽

Anticancer Activities ◽

Mcf 7

Abstract In this study, due to the potential anticancer effects of the benzimidazole ring system, a series of benzimidazole-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives were synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and MS spectra analyses. In the in vitro anticancer assay, all the compounds tested anticancer activities using MTT-based assay against five cancer cell lines (MCF-7, A549, HeLa, C6, and HepG2). Among them, compound 5a exhibited the most potent activity with IC50 values of 5,165±0,211 μM and 5,995±0,264 μM against MCF-7 and HepG2 cell lines. Compound 5a was included in the BrdU test to determine the DNA synthesis inhibition effects for both cell types. Furthermore, compound 5c was also found to be more effective than doxorubicin on the HeLa cell line. The selectivity of anticancer activity was evaluated in NIH3T3 (mouse embryo fibroblast cell line) cell line. In vitro, enzymatic inhibition assays of aromatase enzyme were performed for compound 5a acting on the MCF-7 cell line. For compound 5a, in silico molecular docking against aromatase enzyme was performed to determine possible protein-ligand interactions and binding modes.

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Synthesis and Evaluation of a Series of 1,3,4-Thiadiazole Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Agents

Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1871520618666180509111351 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 1606-1616 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mehlika D. Altıntop ◽

Belgin Sever ◽

Ahmet Özdemir ◽

Sinem Ilgın ◽

Özlem Atlı ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Dna Synthesis ◽

Cell Line ◽

Hepg2 Cell ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

In Vitro Assays ◽

Breast Adenocarcinoma ◽

Dependent Manner ◽

Hepg2 Cell Lines ◽

Mcf 7

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.

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New Uracil Analogs with Exocyclic Methylidene Group as Potential Anticancer Agents

Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1871520619666191211104128 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 359-368 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Angelika Długosz-Pokorska ◽

Joanna Drogosz ◽

Marlena Pięta ◽

Tomasz Janecki ◽

Urszula Krajewska ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Dna Damage ◽

Cell Line ◽

Cell Lines ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Elisa Test ◽

Pcr Analysis ◽

Cytotoxic Activities ◽

Drug Candidates ◽

Hybrid Molecules ◽

M Phase

Background: Hybrid molecules combining uracil skeleton with methylidene exo-cyclic group were designed in the search for novel anticancer drug candidates. Objective: Two series of racemic 5-methylidenedihydrouracils, either 1,3-disubstituted or 1,3,6-trisubstituted were synthesized and tested for their possible cytotoxic activity against two cancer cell lines (HL-60 and MCF-7) and two healthy cell lines (HUVEC and MCF-10A). The most cytotoxic analogs were re-synthesized as pure enantiomers. The analog designated as U-332 [(R)-3-(4-bromophenyl)-1-ethyl-5-methylidene-6-phenyldihydrouracil], which had a very low IC50 value in HL-60 cell line (0.77μM) and was the most selective towards cancer cells was chosen for further experiments on HL-60 cell line, in order to determine the possible mechanism involved in its antineoplastic action. Methods: Cytotoxic activities of compound was assessed by the MTT assay. In order to explore the mechanism of U-332 activity, we performed quantitative real-time PCR analysis of p53 and p21 genes. Apoptosis, cell proliferation and DNA damage in HL-60 cells were determined using the flow cytometry. The ability of U-332 to determine GADD45ɑ protein level in HL-60 cells incubated with U-332 was analyzed by ELISA test. Results: U-332 was shown to generate excessive DNA damage (70% of the cell population), leading to p53 activation, resulting in p21 down-regulation and a significant increase of GADD45α protein, responsible for the cell cycle arrest in G2/M phase. Conclusion: U-332 can be used as a potential lead compound in the further development of novel uracil analogs as anticancer agents.

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Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives as possible anticancer agents

Acta Pharmaceutica ◽

10.2478/acph-2020-0034 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 499-513

Author(s):

Ulviye Acar Çevik ◽

Derya Osmaniye ◽

Serkan Levent ◽

Begüm Nurpelin Sağlik ◽

Betül Kaya Çavuşoğlu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cell Line ◽

Cancer Cell ◽

Anticancer Agents ◽

Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast ◽

Biological Evaluation ◽

Cytotoxic Activities ◽

Anticancer Activities ◽

Nih3t3 Cell Line ◽

New Compounds ◽

Mcf 7

AbstractThe synthesis of new N-(5-substituted-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)-2-[(5-(substituted amino)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio]acetamide derivatives and investigation of their anticancer activities were the aims of this work. All the new compounds’ structures were elucidated by elemental analyses, IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and MS spectral data. Anticancer activity studies of the compounds were evaluated against MCF-7 and A549 tumor cell lines. In addition, with the purpose of determining the selectivity of cytotoxic activities, the most active compound was screened against a noncancer NIH3T3 cell line (mouse embryonic fibroblast cells). Among the tested compounds, compound 4y (N-(5-ethyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)-2-((5-(p-tolylamino)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio)acetamide), showed promising cytotoxic activity against MCF7 cancer cell with an IC50value of 0.084 ± 0.020 mmol L−1 and against A549 cancer cell with IC50 value of 0.034 ± 0.008 mmol L−1, compared with cisplatin. The aromatase inhibitory activity was evaluated for compound 4y on MCF-7 cell line showing promising activity with IC50 of 0.062 ± 0.004 mmol L−1.

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