Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of New Indolylpyrimidylpiperazines for Gastrointestinal Cancer Therapy

Human A3 adenosine receptor hA3AR has been implicated in gastrointestinal cancer, where its cellular expression has been found increased, thus suggesting its potential as a molecular target for novel anticancer compounds. Observation made in our previous work indicated the importance of the carbonyl group of amide in the indolylpyrimidylpiperazine (IPP) for its human A2A adenosine receptor (hA2AAR) subtype binding selectivity over the other AR subtypes. Taking this observation into account, we structurally modified an indolylpyrimidylpiperazine (IPP) scaffold, 1 (a non-selective adenosine receptors' ligand) into a modified IPP (mIPP) scaffold by switching the position of the carbonyl group, resulting in the formation of both ketone and tertiary amine groups in the new scaffold. Results showed that such modification diminished the A2A activity and instead conferred hA3AR agonistic activity. Among the new mIPP derivatives (3-6), compound 4 showed potential as a hA3AR partial agonist, with an Emax of 30% and EC50 of 2.89 ± 0.55 μM. In the cytotoxicity assays, compound 4 also exhibited higher cytotoxicity against both colorectal and liver cancer cells as compared to normal cells. Overall, this new series of compounds provide a promising starting point for further development of potent and selective hA3AR partial agonists for the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 24(2019), 20 vom: 11. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Aaron [VerfasserIn]
Babak, Maria V [VerfasserIn]
Venkatesan, Gopalakrishnan [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Clarissa [VerfasserIn]
Klotz, Karl-Norbert [VerfasserIn]
Herr, Deron Raymond [VerfasserIn]
Cheong, Siew Lee [VerfasserIn]
Federico, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
Spalluto, Giampiero [VerfasserIn]
Ong, Wei-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yu Zong [VerfasserIn]
Loo, Jason Siau Ee [VerfasserIn]
Pastorin, Giorgia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1RTM4PAL0V
ADORA3 protein, human
Adenosine A2 Receptor Antagonists
Gastrointestinal cancer
HA3AR
Indoles
Indolylpyrimidylpiperazines
Journal Article
Partial agonists
Piperazine
Pyrimidinones
Receptor, Adenosine A2A
Receptor, Adenosine A3

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Date Completed 21.02.2020

Date Revised 19.10.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/molecules24203661

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM302210261