Title:Anti Cancer, Molecular Docking and Structure Activity Relationship Studies of Some Novel Synthetic Spiroindolo[3,2-b]Carbazoles as Predicted HER2 and BrK Kinase Inhibitors
VOLUME: 14 ISSUE: 2
Author(s):Mardia T. El Sayed*, Andrey Voronkov, Ifedayo V. Ogungbe, Salwa M. El-Hallouty, Khadiga M. Ahmed, Berishvili Vladimir and Konstantin Balaki
Affiliation:Department of Applied Organic Chemistry, Chemical Industries Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/3, Moscow 119991, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Jackson State University, 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, P.O. Box 17910-Jackson, MS 39217-0510, Pharmacognosy Department, Pharmaceutical Industries Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Natural Compounds Department, Pharmaceutical Industries Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/3, Moscow 119991, Moscow Institute of Physic and Technology (State University), 9 Institutskiy Lane, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast 141700
Keywords:Docking studies, cytostatic evaluation, 60 cell line screen, QSAR models, synthetic spirocyclicindoles.
Abstract:Background: Spirocyclic compounds are important because of their unique structure and
diverse biological activities. The indolo-spirocyclic scaffold is regularly found as a core structure of a
representative family of bioactive natural products and among pharmaceutics, like alstonisine and spirotyprostatine.
In the present work, indolo-spirocyclic compounds 3a-g and 4a,b have been successfully
synthesized via electrophilic condensation reactions of indoles with a-cyclic ketones, including cyclopentanone,
demidone, cyclohexane-1,3-dione, bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-en-6-one and isatin. Revised
structure for compound 3c is described. All the synthesized compounds were subjected for the in- vitro
cytotoxicity assays against A-549 (human lung carcinoma), MCF-7 (human breast carcinoma) and
HCT-116 (human colon carcinoma) cell lines.
Methods: Cell viability was investigated using MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium
bromide. This assay depends on the mitochondrial reduction of yellow MTT into purple formazan.
All incubations were carried out at 37oC in 5% CO2 incubator in humidified atmosphere (Sheldon,
TC2323, and Cornelius, OR, USA). Cells were seeded into 96-well microtiter plastic plates at the concentration
(104 cells per well) and allowed to adhere for 24 hours. Medium was aspirated and fresh medium
(without serum) was added to the cells with various concentrations of the test compounds (100,
50, 25, 12.5, 6.25, 3.12, 1.56 and 0.78 g/mL in DMSO) and incubated for 48 hours.
Results: The tested components exhibited distinctive pattern of anticancer activity against all tested
cancer cell lines. The more potent candidates were 3a, 3b, 3c, 3f, 3h, and 4b, which gave the high percent
of growth inhibition (cytotoxicity), ranging from 85.7% to 98.6%. For the human breast adenocarcinoma
MCF-7 cell line, compound 3c exhibited the highest activity, compared to other spirocyclic
indoles and to the reference drug doxorubicin (IC50=31, 37.6, 38.2 with respect to the used cancer cell
lines) with IC50= 3.4 µg/ml. Compound 3c was docked into the crystal structure of the kinase domain of
Human HER2 and BrK, which are most commonly associated with human breast adenocarcinoma
MCF-7 cell line. SAR and QSAR studies have been described.
Conclusion: Ten indolo-spirocyclics 3a-g and 4a,b candidates have been successfully synthesized. All
the synthesized compounds were screened for their in-vitro anticancer activities in National Research
Centre in Egypt, against A-549, MCF7 and HCT-116 cancer cell lines. As a result, they exhibited distinctive
pattern of anticancer activity against all tested cancer cell lines. The most potent candidates
were 3a, 3b, 3c, 3f, 3h, and 4b, which gave the highest growth of inhibition percent (cytotoxicity), ranging
from 85.7% to 98.6%. For the human breast adenocarcinoma MCF-7, compound 3c exhibited the
overall highest activity compared with the other spirocyclic indoles and with the reference drug doxorubicin
with IC50: 3.4 g/ml. Compound 3c was docked into crystal structure of the most common associated
protein kinase domains of human MCF-7 cell line, which are kinases HER2 and BrK. SAR and
QSAR of compounds under investigation were described.
