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  3. Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 3-alkylsulfanyl-4-amino-1,2,4-triazole derivatives

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 3-alkylsulfanyl-4-amino-1,2,4-triazole derivatives

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2016 Aug 1;26(15):3679-83. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.05.086.
Pei-Liang Zhao 1,  Peng Chen 2,  Qiu Li 2,  Meng-Jin Hu 2,  Peng-Cheng Diao 2,  En-Shan Pan 3,  Wen-Wei You 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, PR China. Electronic address: plzhao@smu.edu.cn.
  • 2 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, PR China.
  • 3 School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, PR China.
  • 4 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, PR China. Electronic address: youww@smu.edu.cn.
PMID: 27287368 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.05.086
Abstract

Based on our previous work, a series of novel 3-alkylsulfanyl-4-amino-1,2,4-triazole derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their antiproliferative activities. The results indicated that some compounds possessed significant antiproliferative activities against four Cancer cell lines, HepG2, HCT116, PC-3, and Hela. Particularly, the most promising compound 8d displayed 184-, 18-, and 17-fold improvement compared to fluorouracil in inhibiting HCT116, Hela and PC-3 cell proliferation with IC50 values of 0.37, 2.94, and 31.31μM, respectively. Most interestingly, the compound did not affect the normal human embryonic kidney cells, HEK-293. Moreover, mechanistic investigation showed that the representative compound 8d induced Apoptosis and blocked cell cycle in G2/M phase in Hela cells in a dose-dependent manner. These findings suggest that compound 8d may have potential to be developed as a promising lead for the design of novel Anticancer small-molecule drugs.

Keywords

1,2,4-Triazole; Alkylsulfanyl; Antiproliferative activity; Synthesis.

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