Identification of a new tamoxifen-xanthene hybrid as pro-apoptotic anticancer agent.
Bioorg Chem
; 86: 538-549, 2019 05.
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ABSTRACT
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed type of cancer among women for which an exhaustive cure has not been discovered yet. Nowadays, tamoxifen still represents the gold standard for breast cancer therapy; it acts on both estrogen receptor-positive and estrogen receptor-negative breast cancers. Unfortunately, its toxicity and the related chemoresistance undermine its antitumor potential. In this paper, new tamoxifen-based derivatives with a rigid structural motif in their structure were designed, synthesized, and evaluated to assess their antitumor behavior. All the tested compounds affected estrogen receptor-positive tumor (MCF-7) cell growth, even with different extents, among which, the most active ones proved also to induce mitochondria-mediated apoptosis through activation of PARP cleavage, decrease in Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and increase in Bim gene expression levels. Here we found that the compound 1, carrying a rigid xanthene core, turned out to be the most promising of the set showing an activity profile comparable to that of tamoxifen. Furthermore, a more favorable genotoxic profile than tamoxifen made compound 1 a promising candidate for further studies.
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Assunto principal:
Tamoxifeno
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Xantenos
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Apoptose
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Antineoplásicos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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Bioorg Chem
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article
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Itália