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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 13, Issue 34, Pages 9534-9541Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200701057
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cytotoxicity; natural products; total synthesis; tubulin; tubulysin
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Ten analogues of tubulysin D were synthesized and assayed against established mammalian cell lines, including cancer cells measuring inhibition of cell Growth by an MTT assay. These experiments establish for the first time the essential features for the potent cytotoxicity of tubulysin D. The activities of analogues 2 to 5 demonstrate that numerous modifications may be introduced at the C-terminus of the natural product with only modest loss in activity, while the activities of analogues 6 to 8 suggest that a basic amine must be present at the N-terminus to maintain activity. Most surprisingly, analogue 10 establishes that replacement of the chemically labile O-acyl NO-acetal with the stable N-methyl group results in almost no loss in activity. In aggregate, these structure-activity relationships enable the design of analogues such as 11 that are smaller and considerably more stable than tubulysin D but that maintain most of its potent cell-growth inhibitory activity.
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