Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 150, Issue -, Pages 829-840Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.03.010
Keywords
Ring-contracted artemisinin; Dimers; Linker modification; Anticancer activity; Anti-proliferation
Categories
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21572027, 21372267]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Artemisinin is a potential anticancer agent with an interesting trioxane sesquiterpene structure. In order to improve the biological activity and metabolic stability of artemisinin, a series of novel ring-contracted artemisinin dimers were synthesized. These dimers were evaluated by MTT assay against six cancer cell lines. Most of the dimmers exhibited improved antiproliferative activities over artemisinin. Especially, compound 8b showed the most pronounced anti-cancer activity for PC12 cancer cells with an IC50 value of 1.56 mu M Thus, PC12 cancer cells were used to further investigate the mechanism of antiproliferation for this series of compounds. Compound 8b arrested cell cycle at G1 phase and induced cell apoptosis via up-regulation of Bad, Bax, caspase-3 and caspase-9 protein expressions while inhibiting the expression of Bc1-xL. The present studies are the first to synthesize the ring-contracted artemisinin as dimers and show that these dimers have potent anti-tumor activities against several cancer cell lines. (C) 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available