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Discovery of traditional Chinese medicine monomers and their synthetic intermediates, analogs or derivatives for battling P-gp-mediated multi-drug resistance. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 159:381-392. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.09.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Revised: 09/22/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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El-Sherief HA, Youssif BG, Abbas Bukhari SN, Abdelazeem AH, Abdel-Aziz M, Abdel-Rahman HM. Synthesis, anticancer activity and molecular modeling studies of 1,2,4-triazole derivatives as EGFR inhibitors. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 156:774-789. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Wang M, Qin HL, Leng J, Ameeduzzafar, Amjad MW, Raja MAG, Hussain MA, Bukhari SNA. Synthesis and biological evaluation of new tetramethylpyrazine-based chalcone derivatives as potential anti-Alzheimer agents. Chem Biol Drug Des 2018; 92:1859-1866. [PMID: 29923315 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Revised: 04/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In the current study, a series of new ligustrazine-based chalcones was synthesized. For insertion of tetramethylpyrazine (TMP, also designated as ligustrazine) in chemical backbone of chalcone, a new ligustrazine-based aldehyde was prepared. New ketones were synthesized for inclusion of quinazolin-4-yl amino and pyrazin-2-yl amino moieties. The newly synthesized compounds were screened for acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, and monoamine oxidases (MAO) inhibitory activities and also for in vitro cytotoxicity on PC12 cells. The effect of these compounds against amyloid β-induced cytotoxicity and aggregation was also investigated. The synthesized compounds effectively inhibited the related enzymes and also exhibited neuroprotective effects. Most of the compounds displayed better inhibitory potencies against Aβ aggregation than reference compounds. Some compounds such as 11e and 16b showed very potent effects on multiple targets exhibiting behavior as multifunctional anti-Alzheimer agents.
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- Meng Wang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia
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Recent progress in the structural modification and pharmacological activities of ligustrazine derivatives. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 147:150-162. [PMID: 29432947 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.01.097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Revised: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ligustrazine is a main active fraction of the traditional medicine known as Ligusticum chuanxiong hort, which has been used as clinical medication for cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease and stenocardia recently. The rapid metabolism and short half-life of ligustrazine seriously limits its application in clinical practice. Therefore, derivatives of ligustrazine are designed and synthesized in our and other labs, including piperazine, cinnamic acid, styrene, acylguanidine, amides, curcumin and triterpenes derivatives of ligustrazine. Most of these compounds present better pharmacodynamics activities and more favorable pharmacokinetic properties compared to the parent compound. Besides, some new biological activities of these compounds are discovered. Hence, this review continues the previous review of our group as well as aims to highlight recent prominent advances in this field in the past ten years.
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Youssif BG, Abdelrahman MH, Abdelazeem AH, abdelgawad MA, Ibrahim HM, Salem OI, Mohamed MF, Treambleau L, Bukhari SNA. Design, synthesis, mechanistic and histopathological studies of small-molecules of novel indole-2-carboxamides and pyrazino[1,2-a]indol-1(2H)-ones as potential anticancer agents effecting the reactive oxygen species production. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 146:260-273. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.01.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2017] [Revised: 12/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Vágvölgyi M, Martins A, Kulmány Á, Zupkó I, Gáti T, Simon A, Tóth G, Hunyadi A. Nitrogen-containing ecdysteroid derivatives vs. multi-drug resistance in cancer: Preparation and antitumor activity of oximes, oxime ethers and a lactam. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 144:730-739. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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El-Sherief HAM, Youssif BGM, Bukhari SNA, Abdel-Aziz M, Abdel-Rahman HM. Novel 1,2,4-triazole derivatives as potential anticancer agents: Design, synthesis, molecular docking and mechanistic studies. Bioorg Chem 2017; 76:314-325. [PMID: 29227915 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2017.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Revised: 10/31/2017] [Accepted: 12/03/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A series of novel compounds carrying 1,2,4-triazole scaffold was synthesized and evaluated for their anticancer activity against a panel of cancer cell lines using MTT assay. Compounds 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 10b, 10e, and 10 g showed remarkable antiproliferative activity against the tested cell lines. Compounds 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 10b, 10e, and 10 g with the least IC50 values in MTT assay were tested against three known anticancer targets including EGFR, BRAF and Tubulin. The results revealed that compounds 8c and 8d showed almost same BRAF inhibitory activity and were discovered to be potent inhibitors of cancer cell proliferation and were also observed to be strong Tubulin inhibitors. Moreover, 8c also showed the best EGFR inhibition with IC50 = 3.6 μM. Finally molecular modeling studies were performed to explore the binding mode of the most active compounds to the target enzymes.
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- Hany A M El-Sherief
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nahda University, Beni-suef, Egypt; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Aljouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka 2014, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Aljouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka 2014, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Aljouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka 2014, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, 61519 Minia, Egypt.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nahda University, Beni-suef, Egypt; Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, 71526 Assiut, Egypt
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Treshalina HM, Romanenko VI, Kaluzhny DN, Treshalin MI, Nikitin AA, Tikhomirov AS, Shchekotikhin AE. Development and pharmaceutical evaluation of the anticancer Anthrafuran/Cavitron complex, a prototypic parenteral drug formulation. Eur J Pharm Sci 2017; 109:631-637. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2017.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Liu J, Zhou F, Zhang L, Wang H, Zhang J, Zhang C, Jiang Z, Li Y, Liu Z, Chen H. DMXAA-pyranoxanthone hybrids enhance inhibition activities against human cancer cells with multi-target functions. Eur J Med Chem 2017; 143:1768-1778. [PMID: 29129511 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.10.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Revised: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Four 5,6-dimethylxanthone-4-acetic acid (D) and pyranoxanthone (P) hybrids (D-P-n) were design-synthesized based on multi-target-addressed strategy. D-P-4 was confirmed as the most active agent against HepG-2 cell line growth with an IC50 of 0.216 ± 0.031 μM. Apoptosis analysis indicated different contributions of early/late apoptosis/necrosis to cell death for both monomers, the combination (D + P in 1:1 mol ratio) and D-P-4. They all arrested more cells on S phase. Western Blot implied that D-P-4 regulated p53/MDM2 to a better healthy state. Moreover, it improved Bax/Bcl-2 signaling pathway to increase cancer cell apoptosis. In all cases studied, D-P-4 showed the best activity and synergistic effect. All the evidences support that D-P-4 is a better anti-cancer therapy with multi-target functions.
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- Jie Liu
- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- School of Food Sciences and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China; Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of TCM and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, PR China.
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Abdelazeem AH, El-Saadi MT, Said EG, Youssif BGM, Omar HA, El-Moghazy SM. Novel diphenylthiazole derivatives with multi-target mechanism: Synthesis, docking study, anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities. Bioorg Chem 2017; 75:127-138. [PMID: 28938224 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2017.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Revised: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Over the last few decades, a growing body of studies addressed the anticancer activity of NSAIDs, particularly selective COX-2 inhibitors. However, their exact molecular mechanism is still unclear and is not fully investigated. In this regard, a novel series of compounds bearing a COXs privilege scaffold, diphenyl thiazole, was synthesized and evaluated for their anticancer activity against a panel of cancer cell lines. The most active compounds 10b, 14a,b, 16a, 17a,b and 18b were evaluated in vitro for COX-1/COX-2 inhibitory activity. These compounds were suggested to exert their anticancer activity through a multi-target mechanism based on their structural features. Thus, compounds 10b and 17b with the least IC50 values in MTT assay were tested against three known anticancer targets; EGFR, BRAF and tubulin. Compounds 10b and 17b showed remarkable activity against EGFR with IC50 values of 0.4 and 0.2μM, respectively and good activity against BRAF with IC50 values of 1.3 and 1.7μM, respectively. In contrast, they showed weak activity in tubulin polymerization assay. The in vivo anti-inflammatory potential was assessed and interestingly, compound 17b was the most potent compound. Together, this study offers some important insights into the correlation between COXs inhibition and cancer treatment. Additionally, the results demonstrated the promising activity of these compounds with a multi-target mechanism as good candidates for further development into potential anticancer agents.
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- Ahmed H Abdelazeem
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Aljouf University, Aljouf, Sakaka 2014, Saudi Arabia
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- Sharjah Institute for Medical Research and College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
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Poornima B, Siva B, Venkanna A, Shankaraiah G, Jain N, Yadav DK, Misra S, Babu KS. Novel Gomisin B analogues as potential cytotoxic agents: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation and docking studies. Eur J Med Chem 2017; 139:441-453. [PMID: 28818768 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.07.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Revised: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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As part of pharmacological-phytochemical integrated studies on medicinal flora, Gomisin B (1) was isolated as major phytochemical lead from schisandra grandiflora, a plant traditionally used in different Asian systems of medicine. A series of 1,2,3-triazoles derivatives were synthesized at the C-7' position of the gomisin B core through diastereoselective Michael addition followed by regioselective Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions. All these triazolyl derivatives (5a-5q) were well characterized using modern spectroscopic techniques and evaluated for their anti-cancer activity against a panel of five human cancerous cell-lines. Among them, compound 5b exhibited the best cytotoxicity against SIHA cell (IC50 0.24 μM) which was more than the standard drug doxorubicin, while the other derivatives were exhibited moderate to low activities in tested cell lines. The cell cycle analysis indicated that compound 5b stalled HeLa cells at G2/M phase. 5b promoted tubulin polymerization and this was supported by the docking studies, wherein 5b showed significant binding affinity at the colchicine binding pocket of tubulin. Overall, we identified a novel small molecule that demonstrated anticancer activity by promoting in vitro tubulin assembly.
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- B Poornima
- Division of Natural Products Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 500 007, India
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- Division of Natural Products Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 500 007, India
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- Division of Natural Products Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 500 007, India
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- Division of Natural Products Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 500 007, India
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- Centre for Chemical Biology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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- Division of Natural Products Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, 500 007, India.
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