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PHARMACEUTICALS
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ph12040161
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antiproliferative activity; prooxidant activity; antioxidant activity; pro-apoptotic activity; NF-kappa B inhibition; sulfenic acid
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- [PJ_RIC_FFABR_2017_ 161507_D15]
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We analyzed antitumor effects of a series of curcumin analogues. Some of them were obtained by reaction of substitution involving the two phenolic OH groups of curcumin while the analogues with a substituent at C-4 was prepared following an original procedure that regards the condensation of benzenesulfenic acid onto the nucleophilic central carbon of the curcumin skeleton. We analyzed cytotoxic effects of such derivatives on two TNBC (triple negative breast cancer) cell lines, SUM 149 and MDA-MB-231, but only three of them showed an IC50 in a lower micromolar range with respect to curcumin. We also focused on these three derivatives that in both cell lines exhibited a higher or at least equivalent pro-apoptotic effect than curcumin. The analysis of molecular mechanisms of action of the curcumin derivatives under study has highlighted that they decreased NF-kappa B transcriptional factor activity, and consequently the expression of some NF-kappa B targets. Our data confirmed once again that curcumin may represent a very good lead compound to design analogues with higher antitumor capacities and able to overcome drug resistance with respect to conventional ones, even in tumors difficult to treat as TNBC.
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