Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 17, Issue 8, Pages 9683-9696Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules17089683
Keywords
3-aryl-2-quinoxaline; carbonitrile 1,4-dioxide; hypoxic cytotoxic activity; SAR
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21072171, 81072575]
- National Key Tech Project for Major Creation of New Drugs [2009ZX09501-003]
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A series of 3-aryl-2-quinoxaline-carbonitrile 1,4-di-N-oxide derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated for hypoxic and normoxic cytotoxic activity against human SMMC-7721, K562, KB, A549 and PC-3 cell lines. Many of these new compounds displayed more potent hypoxic cytotoxic activity compared with TX-402 and TPZ in the tumor cells based evaluation, which confirmed our hypothesis that the replacement of the 3-amine with the substituted aryl ring of TX-402 increases the hypoxic anti-tumor activity. The preliminary SAR revealed that 3-chloro was a favorable substituent in the phenyl ring for hypoxic cytotoxicity and 7-methyl or 7-methoxy substituted derivatives exhibited better hypoxic selectivity against most of the tested cell lines. The most potent compound, 7-methyl-3-(3-chlorophenyl)-quinoxaline-2-carbonitrile 1,4-dioxide (9h) was selected for further anti-tumor evaluation and mechanistic study. It also exhibited significant cytotoxic activity against BEL-7402, HepG2, HL-60, NCI-H460, HCT-116 and CHP126 cell lines in hypoxia with IC50 values ranging from 0.31 to 3.16 mu M, and preliminary mechanism study revealed that 9h induced apoptosis in a caspase-dependent pathway.
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