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Discovery of Novel Bromophenol Hybrids as Potential Anticancer Agents through the Ros-Mediated Apoptotic Pathway: Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation

Journal

MARINE DRUGS
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/md15110343

Keywords

bromophenol hybrids; anticancer; structure-activity relationships; ROS; apoptotic pathway

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81773586, 81703354]
  2. Key research and development project of Shandong province [2016GSF201193, 2016ZDJS07A13, 2016GSF115002, 2016GSF115009]
  3. Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [QYZDB-SSW-DQC014]
  4. Project of Discovery, Evaluation and Transformation of Active Natural Compounds, Strategic Biological Resources Service Network Programme of Chinese Academy of Sciences [ZSTH-026]
  5. NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund for Marine Science Rearch Centers [U1606403]
  6. Scientific and Technological Innovation Project - Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology [2015ASKJ02]
  7. Aoshan Talents Program - Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology [2015ASTP]
  8. National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
  9. Taishan scholar Youth Project of Shandong province

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A series of bromophenol hybrids with N-containing heterocyclic moieties were designed, and their anticancer activities against a panel of five human cancer cell lines (A549, Bel7402, HepG2, HCT116 and Caco2) using MTT assay in vitro were explored. Among them, thirteen compounds (17a, 17b, 18a, 19a, 19b, 20a, 20b, 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b, 23a, and 23b) exhibited significant inhibitory activity against the tested cancer cell lines. The structure-activity relationships (SARs) of bromophenol derivatives were discussed. The promising candidate compound 17a could induce cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase and induce apoptosis in A549 cells, as well as caused DNA fragmentations, morphological changes and ROS generation by the mechanism studies. Furthermore, compound 17a suppression of Bcl-2 levels (decrease in the expression of the anti-apoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and down-regulation in the expression levels of Bcl-2) in A549 cells were observed, along with activation caspase-3 and PARP, which indicated that compound 17a induced A549 cells apoptosis in vitro through the ROS-mediated apoptotic pathway. These results might be useful for bromophenol derivatives to be explored and developed as novel anticancer drugs.

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