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Design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel porcupine inhibitors featuring a fused 3-ring system based on the ‘reversed’ amide scaffold
Xu, Zhixiang,Xu, Xiangxiang,O'Laoi, Ruadhan,Ma, Haikuo,Zheng, Jiyue,Chen, Shuaishuai,Luo, Lusong,Hu, Zhilin,He, Sudan,Li, Jiajun,Zhang, Hongjian,Zhang, Xiaohu
, p. 5861 - 5872 (2016/10/30)
The Wnt signaling pathway is an essential signal transduction pathway which leads to the regulation of cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation and migration. Aberrant Wnt signaling is known to have an association with multiple cancers. Porcupine is an enzyme that catalyses the addition of palmitoleate to a serine residue in Wnt proteins, a process which is required for the secretion of Wnt proteins. Here we report the synthesis and structure–activity-relationship of the novel porcupine inhibitors based on a ‘reversed’ amide scaffold. The leading compound 53 was as potent as the clinical compound LGK974 in a cell based STF reporter gene assay. Compound 53 potently inhibited the secretion of Wnt3A, therefore was confirmed to be a porcupine inhibitor. Furthermore, compound 53 showed excellent chemical and plasma stabilities. However, the clearance of compound 53 in liver microsomal tests was moderate to high, and the solubility of compound 53 was suboptimal. Collective efforts toward further optimization of this novel tricyclic template to develop better porcupine inhibitors will be subsequently undertaken and reported in due course.
Amine-guanidine switch: A promising approach to improve DNA binding and antiproliferative activities
Ohara, Keiichiro,Smietana, Michael,Restouin, Audrey,Mollard, Séverine,Borg, Jean-Paul,Collette, Yves,Vasseur, Jean-Jacques
, p. 6465 - 6475 (2008/04/12)
A series of polyaromatic guanidino derivatives was synthesized and evaluated for growth inhibitory properties in several human carcinoma cell lines. The properties of these guanidino compounds were compared to those of their corresponding synthetic amino precursors. The size of the polyaromatic ring system as well as the length of the tether attached to the ring had a direct impact on the observed antiproliferative profiles, compound 14 having the broadest spectrum of activity. As both series intercalate DNA, guanidine derivatives showed a remarkable affinity for DNA and the guanidinium group appeared to be essential, yet not sufficient for caspase-3/7 activation. Compound 14 also showed significant in vivo activity against breast cancer cell xenografts in NOG/SCID mice. These results suggest that the electronic nature of chain tethering an intercalator not only influences the DNA-binding process but also controls the antitumoral activity of the whole compound.
