Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 16, Issue 12, Pages 10685-10694Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules161210685
Keywords
pyrazolo[3,4-d] pyrimidine; exploratory synthesis; anticancer activity; apoptosis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC-81000982]
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In a cell-based screen of novel anticancer agents, the hit compound 1a which bears a pyrazolo[3,4-d] pyrimidine scaffold exhibited high inhibitory activity against a panel of four different types of tumor cell lines. In particular, the IC50 for A549 cells was 2.24 mu M, compared with an IC50 of 9.20 mu M for doxorubicin, the positive control. Four synthetic routes of the key intermediate 3 of 1a were explored and 1a was prepared via route D on the gram scale for further research. Two analogs of 1a were synthesized and their preliminary structure-activity relationships were studied. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that compound 1a could significantly induce apoptosis in A549 cells in vitro at low micromolar concentrations. These results suggest that the target compound 1a and its analogs with the pyrazolo[3,4-d] pyrimidine scaffold might potentially constitute a novel class of anticancer agents, which requires further studies.
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