Design and Synthesis of Molecular Hybrids of Sophora Alkaloids and Cinnamic Acids as Potential Antitumor Agents.

Molecules : a Journal of Synthetic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry
Hai ShangZhongmei Zou

Abstract

Twenty-five sophora alkaloids-cinnamic acid hybrids (including matrine-cinnamic acid hybrids, sophoridine-cinnamic acid hybrids, and sophocarpine-cinnamic acid hybrids) were designed, synthesized, and evaluated in vitro against three human tumor cell lines (HeLa, HepG2 and A549) with cisplatin as a positive control. Some matrine-cinnamic acid and sophoridine-cinnamic acid compounds exhibited potent effect against all three cancer cell lines, such as compounds 5b, 5e, 5g, and 6d. The structure-activity relationship study of the synthesized compounds was also performed. Preliminary mechanistic studies indicated that compounds 5e and 6d could induce apoptosis in HepG2 cell line. Further, compounds 5e and 6d altered mitochondrial membrane potential and produced ROS leading to cell apoptosis of HepG2 cells. Overall, our findings suggested that these compounds may provide promising lead compounds for further development as antitumor agents by structural modification.

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Aug 28, 2021·Molecules : a Journal of Synthetic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry·Ali H Abu AlmaatyMohammed El Behery

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BETA
flow cytometry
NMR
column chromatography
silica
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