期刊
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
卷 95, 期 6, 页码 649-655出版社
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2016-0649
关键词
noscapine; microtubule; tubulin; cytotoxicity; microtubule dynamics; docking
资金
- NSERC (Canada)
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [15-22194S]
- NSERC
- Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures
- Killam Trust
- IODE War Memorial Scholarship
- University of Alberta
This paper reports on the results of chemical synthesis and biological assays performed on several new analogues of noscapine. We have successfully synthesized four noscapine analogues called 1a-4a, as well as their four corresponding enantiomers called 1b-4b. The chemical pathway consisted of three steps with yields in excess of 60% in each step. Subsequently, we have performed biological activity assays intended to reveal the mode of action of these compounds on microtubules in buffer and in cancer cell lines. We have assayed fluorescence quenching effects in microtubule polymerization experiments, cytotoxicity evaluation in breast cancer cell lines, as well as microtubule dynamicity assessments, for each of the synthesized compounds. Finally, we performed computational docking simulations to two binding sites on beta-tubulin: (a) the colchicine binding site and (b) the noscapine binding site. Our results indicate that these compounds have relatively low cytotoxicity profile and less pronounced effects on microtubule dynamics compared with noscapine. Our computational results indicate that these compounds bind to both putative binding sites but have higher affinity for the colchicine site.
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