Synthesis of d- and l-tyrosine-chlorambucil analogs active against breast cancer cell lines

Autor: Eric Asselin, Caroline Descôteaux, Valérie Leblanc, Kevin Brasseur, Atul Gupta, Gervais Bérubé
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 20:7388-7392
ISSN: 0960-894X
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.10.039
Popis: A series of D- and L-tyrosine-chlorambucil analogs was synthesized as anticancer drugs for chemotherapy of breast cancer. The novel compounds were synthesized in good yields through efficient modifications of D- and L-tyrosine. The newly synthesized compounds were evaluated for their anticancer efficacy in different hormone-dependent and hormone-independent (ER+ and ER-) breast cancer cell lines. The novel analogs showed significant in vitro anticancer activity when compared to chlorambucil. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) reveals both, the influence of the length of the spacer chain and the stereochemistry of the tyrosine moiety. Interestingly, the D- and L-tyrosinol-chlorambucil derivatives with 10 carbon atoms spacer are selective towards MCF-7 (ER+) breast cancer cell line.
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