Discovery of new fluorescent thiazole-pyrazoline derivatives as autophagy inducers by inhibiting mTOR activity in A549 human lung cancer cells.

Cell Death & Disease
ZhaoMin LinFeng Kong

Abstract

A series of fluorescent thiazole-pyrazoline derivatives was synthesized and their structures were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and HRMS. Biological evaluation demonstrated that these compounds could effectively inhibit the growth of human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) A549 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner in vitro and inhibit tumor growth in vivo. The structure-activity relationship (SAR) of the compounds was analyzed. Further mechanism research revealed they could induce autophagy and cell cycle arrest while had no influence on cell necrosis. Compound 5e inhibited the activity of mTOR via FKBP12, which could be reversed by 3BDO, an mTOR activator and autophagy inhibitor. Compound 5e inhibited growth, promoted autophagy of A549 cells in vivo. Moreover, compound 5e showed good selectivity with no influence on normal vascular endothelial cell growth and the normal chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) capillary formation. Therefore, our research provides potential lead compounds for the development of new anticancer drugs against human lung cancer.

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