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  3. Design, synthesis, cytotoxicity and mechanism of novel dihydroartemisinin-coumarin hybrids as potential anti-cancer agents

Design, synthesis, cytotoxicity and mechanism of novel dihydroartemisinin-coumarin hybrids as potential anti-cancer agents

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2018 May 10:151:434-449. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.04.005.
Haonan Yu 1,  Zhuang Hou 2,  Ye Tian 3,  Yanhua Mou 4,  Chun Guo 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, 110016, China. Electronic address: yhna380@hotmail.com.
  • 2 School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, 110016, China. Electronic address: houzhuang8@sina.com.
  • 3 School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, 110016, China. Electronic address: tianye870918@126.com.
  • 4 Department of Pharmacology, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, 110016, China. Electronic address: mu_hua_jj@sina.com.
  • 5 School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, 110016, China. Electronic address: chunguo@syphu.edu.cn.
PMID: 29649740 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.04.005
Abstract

To develop novel agents with Anticancer activities, thirty-four new dihydroartemisinin-coumarin hybrids were designed and synthesized in this study. Those compounds were identified that had great Anticancer activity against two Cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231 and HT-29). The structure-activity relationships of the derivatives were also discussed, and the results of docking analysis had shown that carbonic anhydrases IX (CA IX) was very likely to be one of the drug targets of the hybrids. Meanwhile, to clarify the mechanism of the Anticancer activity of the hybrids molecule, we did further exploration in the bioactivity of the hybrids. The results had shown that these derivatives obviously inhibited proliferation of HT-29 cell lines, arrested G0/G1 phase of HT-29 cells, suppressed the migration of tumor cells, and induced a great decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential leading to Apoptosis of Cancer cells. Interestingly, the hybrids also induced the Other cell death pathway-ferroptosis.

Keywords

Anticancer; Apoptosis; Artemisnin; Coumarin; Ferroptosis; Hybrid.

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