Design, synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of novel Artemisinin-Thymol

A molecular hybridization of natural products is a new concept in drug discovery and having critical roles to design new molecules with improved biological properties. Hybrid molecules display higher biological activities when compared to the parent drugs. In the present study, two natural products (thymol and artemisinin (ART)) are used for the synthesis of new hybrid thymol-artemisinin. After characterization, the cytotoxic activity of ART-thymol was tested against different cancer cell lines and non-cancerous human cell line. ART-Thymol show the cytotoxic effect with EC50 values 70,96μM for HepG2, 97,31μM for LnCap, 6,03μM for Caco-2, 77,98μM for HeLa and 62,28μM for HEK293 cells, respectively. Moreover, ART-Thymol was checked for drug-likeness, and the kinase inhibitory activity. ART-Thymol is investigated by using molecular docking. The results of qPCR was indicated CDK2 and P38 were inhibited by ART-Thymol. These results improved that thymol-artemisinin may be new candidates as an anticancer agents.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Natural product research - 36(2022), 14 vom: 08. Juli, Seite 3511-3519

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kavak, Emrah [VerfasserIn]
Mutlu, Dogukan [VerfasserIn]
Ozok, Omruye [VerfasserIn]
Arslan, Sevki [VerfasserIn]
Kivrak, Arif [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3J50XA376E
Anticancer agent
Antineoplastic Agents
Artemisinin
Artemisinins
Biological Products
Cytotoxicity
Journal Article
Molecular docking
Natural products
Thymol

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Date Completed 18.07.2022

Date Revised 18.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14786419.2020.1865954

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319796698