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  3. Combretastatin dinitrogen-substituted stilbene analogues as tubulin-binding and vascular-disrupting agents

Combretastatin dinitrogen-substituted stilbene analogues as tubulin-binding and vascular-disrupting agents

  • J Nat Prod. 2008 Mar;71(3):313-20. doi: 10.1021/np070377j.
Rogelio Siles 1,  J Freeland Ackley,  Mallinath B Hadimani,  John J Hall,  Benon E Mugabe,  Rajsekhar Guddneppanavar,  Keith A Monk,  Jean-Charles Chapuis,  George R Pettit,  David J Chaplin,  Klaus Edvardsen,  Mary Lynn Trawick,  Charles M Garner,  Kevin G Pinney
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7348, USA.
PMID: 18303849 DOI: 10.1021/np070377j
Abstract

Several stilbenoid compounds having structural similarity to the combretastatin group of Natural Products and characterized by the incorporation of two nitrogen-bearing groups (amine, nitro, serinamide) have been prepared by chemical synthesis and evaluated in terms of biochemical and biological activity. The 2',3'-diamino B-ring analogue 17 demonstrated remarkable cytotoxicity against selected human Cancer cell lines in vitro (average GI 50 = 13.9 nM) and also showed good activity in regard to inhibition of tubulin assembly (IC 50 = 2.8 microM). In addition, a single dose (10 mg/kg) of compound 17 caused a 40% tumor-selective blood flow shutdown in tumor-bearing SCID mice at 24 h, thus suggesting the potential value of this compound and its corresponding salt formulations as new vascular-disrupting agents.

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