Virtual screening, SAR, and discovery of 5-(indole-3-yl)-2-[(2-nitrophenyl)amino] [1,3,4]-oxadiazole as a novel Bcl-2 inhibitor

Autor: Andrea Brancale, Malamati Kourti, Andrew D. Westwell, Alessandra Cavaliere, Arwyn Tomos Jones, Noha I. Ziedan, Filippo Prencipe, Rania Hamdy
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Chemical Biology & Drug Design. 90:147-155
ISSN: 1747-0277
Popis: A new series of oxadiazoles were designed to act as inhibitors of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2\ud protein. Virtual screening led to the discovery of new hits that interact with Bcl-2 at the BH3\ud binding pocket. Further study of the structure-activity relationship of the most active\ud compound of the first series, compound 1, led to the discovery of a novel oxadiazole\ud analogue, compound 16j, that was a more potent small molecule inhibitor of Bcl-2. 16j had\ud good in vitro inhibitory activity with sub-micromolar IC50 values in a metastatic human\ud breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-231) and a human cervical cancer cell line (HeLa). The\ud antitumour effect of 16j is concomitant with its ability to bind to Bcl-2 protein as shown by\ud an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (IC50 = 4.27 μM). Compound 16j has a great\ud potential to develop into highly active anticancer agent.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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