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  3. Synthesis and biological evaluation of 4-amino-5-cinnamoylthiazoles as chalcone-like anticancer agents

Synthesis and biological evaluation of 4-amino-5-cinnamoylthiazoles as chalcone-like anticancer agents

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2018 Feb 10:145:404-412. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.01.015.
Adileh Ayati 1,  Rezvan Esmaeili 2,  Setareh Moghimi 1,  Tayebeh Oghabi Bakhshaiesh 2,  Zahra Eslami-S 2,  Keivan Majidzadeh-A 2,  Maliheh Safavi 3,  Saeed Emami 4,  Alireza Foroumadi 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2 Genetics Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
  • 3 Department of Biotechnology, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
  • 4 Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. Electronic address: sd_emami@yahoo.com.
  • 5 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: aforoumadi@yahoo.com.
PMID: 29335206 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.01.015
Abstract

A series of 4-amino-5-cinnamoylthiazoles 3a-p were designed and synthesized as chalcone-like Anticancer agents. The synthesized derivatives 3a-p were evaluated for their in vitro antiproliferative activities against three different human Cancer cell lines including MCF-7, HepG2 and SW480. Most of compounds could significantly prevent proliferation of tested cell lines. In particular, the pyrrolidine derivative 3e namely (E)-1-(4-amino-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)thiazol-5-yl)-3-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)prop-2-en-1-one showed promising activity, especially against HepG2 cells (IC50 = 10.6 μg/ml). Flow cytometric analyses revealed that the prototype compound 3e can prevent the proliferation of HepG2 cells by blockade of the cell cycle at the G2 phase and induction of Apoptosis.

Keywords

Anticancer; Apoptosis; Chalcone; Cytotoxic activity; Thiazole.

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