Abstract
Objective: To synthesize a novel chemotype based on the naphthoquinone scaffold with retained cytotoxicity and provisionally low intracellular oxidation potential.
Background: Derivatives of naphthoquinone, although potent anticancer agents, can exert heart toxicity due to generation of free oxygen species.
Methods: In this study, we modified the scaffold by replacing one carbonyl group with the oxime moiety. Interestingly, only one carbonyl group in 1-R-1H-naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 2-oxides reacted with hydroxylamine. The spatial structure was determined by X-ray analysis. New compounds were tested for the ability to form stable complexes with double stranded DNA by spectroscopy and molecular docking and to induce death of tumor cell lines and non-malignant counterparts.
Results: The resulting 1-R-1H-naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 4-oxime 2-oxides were further acylated to produce a series of 1-R-1H-naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 4-(O-acyloxime) 2-oxides. Newly synthesized compounds demonstrated a higher (in submicromolar or low micromolar range) cytotoxic potency against human colon and breast adenocarcinoma cell lines than to non-malignant skin fibroblasts. Spectroscopic measurements revealed that, unlike other classes of quinone derivatives, new naphthotriazoledione oxides did not form stable complexes with double stranded DNA regardless of their fitting to the DNA minor groove (as determined by molecular modeling).
Conclusion: Thus, our chemical modifications yielded a new chemotype with good cytotoxic properties and yet-to-be-identified intracellular target(s).
Keywords: Quinones, naphtho[2, 3-d][1, 2, 3]triazole-4, 9-dione 2-oxide, oxime, molecular docking, tumor cells, cytotoxicity.
Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
Title:The Oxime Derivatives of 1-R-1H-Naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 2-oxides: Synthesis and Properties
Volume: 17 Issue: 13
Author(s): Leonid M. Gornostaev*, Vladimir B. Tsvetkov, Alina A. Markova, Tatyana I. Lavrikova, Yulia G. Khalyavina, Anastasia S. Kuznetsova, Dmitry N. Kaluzhny, Alexei V. Shunayev, Maria V. Tsvetkova, Valeria A. Glazunova, Vladimir V. Chernyshev and Alexander A. Shtil*
Affiliation:
- V.P. Astaf'ev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University, 89 A. Lebedeva Street, Krasnoyarsk, 660060,Russian Federation
- Blokhin Cancer Center, 24 Kashirskoye shosse, Moscow 115478,Russian Federation
Keywords: Quinones, naphtho[2, 3-d][1, 2, 3]triazole-4, 9-dione 2-oxide, oxime, molecular docking, tumor cells, cytotoxicity.
Abstract: Objective: To synthesize a novel chemotype based on the naphthoquinone scaffold with retained cytotoxicity and provisionally low intracellular oxidation potential.
Background: Derivatives of naphthoquinone, although potent anticancer agents, can exert heart toxicity due to generation of free oxygen species.
Methods: In this study, we modified the scaffold by replacing one carbonyl group with the oxime moiety. Interestingly, only one carbonyl group in 1-R-1H-naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 2-oxides reacted with hydroxylamine. The spatial structure was determined by X-ray analysis. New compounds were tested for the ability to form stable complexes with double stranded DNA by spectroscopy and molecular docking and to induce death of tumor cell lines and non-malignant counterparts.
Results: The resulting 1-R-1H-naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 4-oxime 2-oxides were further acylated to produce a series of 1-R-1H-naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 4-(O-acyloxime) 2-oxides. Newly synthesized compounds demonstrated a higher (in submicromolar or low micromolar range) cytotoxic potency against human colon and breast adenocarcinoma cell lines than to non-malignant skin fibroblasts. Spectroscopic measurements revealed that, unlike other classes of quinone derivatives, new naphthotriazoledione oxides did not form stable complexes with double stranded DNA regardless of their fitting to the DNA minor groove (as determined by molecular modeling).
Conclusion: Thus, our chemical modifications yielded a new chemotype with good cytotoxic properties and yet-to-be-identified intracellular target(s).
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Gornostaev M. Leonid*, Tsvetkov B. Vladimir, Markova A. Alina , Lavrikova I. Tatyana, Khalyavina G. Yulia , Kuznetsova S. Anastasia , Kaluzhny N. Dmitry , Shunayev V. Alexei , Tsvetkova V. Maria , Glazunova A. Valeria, Chernyshev V. Vladimir and Shtil A. Alexander *, The Oxime Derivatives of 1-R-1H-Naphtho[2,3-d][1,2,3]triazole-4,9-dione 2-oxides: Synthesis and Properties, Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry 2017; 17 (13) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1871520617666170327112216
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1871520617666170327112216 |
Print ISSN 1871-5206 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
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