Design, synthesis and evaluation of acridine derivatives as multi-target Src and MEK kinase inhibitors for anti-tumor treatment

Clinical studies have shown enhanced anticancer effects of combined inhibition of Src and MEK kinases. Development of multi-target drugs against Src and MEK is of potential therapeutic advantage against cancers. As a follow-up of our previous studies, and by using molecular docking method, we designed and synthesized a new series of 9-anilinoacridines containing phenyl-urea moieties as potential novel dual Src and MEK inhibitors. The anti-proliferative assays against K562 and HepG-2 tumor cells showed that most of the derivatives displayed good cytotoxicity in vitro. In particular, kinase inhibition assays showed that compound 8m inhibited Src (59.67%) and MEK (43.23%) at 10μM, and displayed moderate inhibitory activity against ERK and AKT, the downstream effectors of both Src and MEK. Moreover, compound 8m was found to induce K562 cells apoptosis. Structure-activity relationships of these derivatives were analyzed. Our study suggested that acridine scaffold, particularly compound 8m, is of potential interest for developing novel multi-target Src and MEK kinase inhibitors..

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Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry - 24(2016), 2, Seite 261

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cui, Zhishan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xi [Sonstige Person]
Li, Lulu [Sonstige Person]
Zhang, Bin [Sonstige Person]
Gao, Chunmei [Sonstige Person]
Chen, Yuzong [Sonstige Person]
Tan, Chunyan [Sonstige Person]
Liu, Hongxia [Sonstige Person]
Xie, Weiyi [Sonstige Person]
Yang, Ti [Sonstige Person]
Jiang, Yuyang [Sonstige Person]

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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OLC1971306878