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A-ring dihalogenation increases the cellular activity of combretastatin-templated tetrazoles.

ABSTRACT: The combretastatins have been investigated for their antimitotic and antivascular properties, and it is widely postulated that a 3,4,5-trimethoxyaryl A-ring is essential to maintain potent activity. We have synthesized new tetrazole analogues (32-34), demonstrating that 3,5-dihalogenation can consistently increase potency by up to 5-fold when compared to the equivalent trimethoxy compound on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and a range of cancer cells. Moreover, this increased potency offsets that lost by installing the tetrazole bridge into combretastatin A-4 (1), giving crystalline, soluble compounds that have low nanomolar activity, arrest cells in G2/M phase, and retain microtubule inhibitory activity. Molecular modeling has shown that optimized packing within the binding site resulting in increased Coulombic interaction may be responsible for this improved activity.

SUBMITTER: Beale TM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4025774 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A-ring dihalogenation increases the cellular activity of combretastatin-templated tetrazoles.

Beale Thomas M TM Allwood Daniel M DM Bender Andreas A Bond Peter J PJ Brenton James D JD Charnock-Jones D Stephen DS Ley Steven V SV Myers Rebecca M RM Shearman James W JW Temple Jill J Unger Jessica J Watts Ciorsdaidh A CA Xian Jian J

ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20120119 3

The combretastatins have been investigated for their antimitotic and antivascular properties, and it is widely postulated that a 3,4,5-trimethoxyaryl A-ring is essential to maintain potent activity. We have synthesized new tetrazole analogues (32-34), demonstrating that 3,5-dihalogenation can consistently increase potency by up to 5-fold when compared to the equivalent trimethoxy compound on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and a range of cancer cells. Moreover, this increased pot ...[more]

PMID: 24900453

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A-ring dihalogenation increases the cellular activity of combretastatin-templated tetrazoles.

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A-ring dihalogenation increases the cellular activity of combretastatin-templated tetrazoles.

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