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  3. Synthesis and Antitumor Activity Evaluation of a Novel Combi-nitrosourea Prodrug: BGCNU

Synthesis and Antitumor Activity Evaluation of a Novel Combi-nitrosourea Prodrug: BGCNU

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2017 Jan 13;8(2):174-178. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6b00358.
Yameng Wang 1,  Ting Ren 1,  Xinxin Lai 1,  Guohui Sun 1,  Lijiao Zhao 1,  Na Zhang 1,  Rugang Zhong 1
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Affiliation

  • 1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental and Viral Oncology, College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology , Beijing 100124, P. R. China.
PMID: 28197307 DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6b00358
Abstract

Chloroethylnitrosoureas (CENUs) are an important type of alkylating agent employed in the clinical treatment of Cancer. However, the Anticancer efficacy of CENUs is greatly decreased by a DNA repairing Enzyme, O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT), by preventing the formation of interstrand cross-links (ICLs). In this study, a combi-nitrosourea prodrug, namely, N-(2-chloroethyl)-N'-2-(O6-benzyl-9-guanine)ethyl-N-nitrosourea (BGCNU), which possesses an O6-benzylguanine (O6-BG) derivative and CENU pharmacophores simultaneously, was synthesized and evaluated for its ability to induce ICLs. The target compound is markedly more cytotoxic in human glioma cells than the clinically used CENU chemotherapies ACNU, BCNU, and their respective combinations with O6-BG. In the AGT-proficient cells, significantly higher levels of DNA ICLs were observed in the groups treated by BGCNU than those by ACNU and BCNU, which indicated that the activity of AGT was effectively inhibited by the O6-BG derivatives released from BGCNU.

Keywords

AGT inhibition; Combi-nitrosourea; DNA interstrand cross-links; anticancer activity; chloroethylnitrosourea.

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