Optimization of thiazole analogues of resveratrol for induction of NAD(P)H:quinone reductase 1 (QR1)

Autor: John M. Pezzuto, Eun-Jung Park, Abdelrahman S. Mayhoub, Mark Cushman, Tamara P. Kondratyuk, Laura Marler
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 20:7030-7039
ISSN: 0968-0896
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.10.006
Popis: NAD(P)H:quinone reductase 1 (QR1) belongs to a class of enzymes called cytoprotective enzymes. It exhibits its cancer protective activity mainly by inhibiting the formation of intracellular semiquinone radicals, and by generating α-tocopherolhydroquinone, which acts as a free radical scavenger. It is therefore believed that QR1 inducers can act as cancer chemopreventive agents. Resveratrol (1) is a naturally occurring stilbene derivative that requires a concentration of 21 μM to double QR1 activity (CD = 21 μM). The stilbene double bond of resveratrol was replaced with a thiadiazole ring and the phenols were eliminated to provide a more potent and selective derivative 2 (CD = 2.1 μM). Optimizing the substitution pattern of the two phenyl rings and the central heterocyclic linker led to a highly potent and selective QR1 inducer 9o with a CD value of 0.087 μM.
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