Naphthalene diimide-polyamine hybrids as antiproliferative agents: Focus on the architecture of the polyamine chains.
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ID: ALA4004831
Journal: Eur J Med Chem
Title: Naphthalene diimide-polyamine hybrids as antiproliferative agents: Focus on the architecture of the polyamine chains.
Authors: Milelli A, Marchetti C, Greco ML, Moraca F, Costa G, Turrini E, Catanzaro E, Betari N, Calcabrini C, Sissi C, Alcaro S, Fimognari C, Tumiatti V, Minarini A.
Abstract: Naphthalene diimides (NDIs) have been widely used as scaffold to design DNA-directed agents able to target peculiar DNA secondary arrangements endowed with relevant biochemical roles. Recently, we have reported disubstituted linear- and macrocyclic-NDIs that bind telomeric and non-telomeric G-quadruplex with high degree of affinity and selectivity. Herein, the synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modelling studies of a series of asymmetrically substituted NDIs are reported. Among these, compound 9 emerges as the most interesting of the series being able to bind telomeric G-quadruplex (ΔTm = 29 °C at 2.5 μM), to inhibit the activity of DNA processing enzymes, such as topoisomerase II and TAQ-polymerase, and to exert antiproliferative effects in the NCI panel of cancer cell lines with GI50 values in the micro-to nanomolar concentration range (i.e. SR cell line, GI50 = 76 nM). Molecular mechanisms of cell death have been investigated and molecular modelling studies have been performed in order to shed light on the antiproliferative and DNA-recognition processes.
CiteXplore: 28157593
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.01.025
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