Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Dispiro-Indolinones with Anticancer Activity

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Novel variously substituted thiohydantoin-based dispiro-indolinones were prepared using a regio- and diastereoselective synthetic route from 5-arylidene-2-thiohydantoins, isatines, and sarcosine. The obtained molecules were subsequently evaluated in vitro against the cancer cell lines LNCaP, PC3, HCTwt, and HCT(−/−). Several compounds demonstrated a relatively high cytotoxic activity vs. LNCaP cells (IC50 = 1.2–3.5 µM) and a reasonable selectivity index (SI = 3–10). Confocal microscopy revealed that the conjugate of propargyl-substituted dispiro-indolinone with the fluorescent dye Sulfo-Cy5-azide was mainly localized in the cytoplasm of HEK293 cells. P388-inoculated mice and HCT116-xenograft BALB/c nude mice were used to evaluate the anticancer activity of compound 29 in vivo. Particularly, the TGRI value for the P388 model was 93% at the final control timepoint. No mortality was registered among the population up to day 31 of the study. In the HCT116 xenograft model, the compound (170 mg/kg, i.p., o.d., 10 days) provided a T/C ratio close to 60% on day 8 after the treatment was completed. The therapeutic index—estimated as LD50/ED50—for compound 29 in mice was ≥2.5. Molecular docking studies were carried out to predict the possible binding modes of the examined molecules towards MDM2 as the feasible biological target. However, such a mechanism was not confirmed by Western blot data and, apparently, the synthesized compounds have a different mechanism of cytotoxic action.

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Ivanenkov, Y. A., Kukushkin, M. E., Beloglazkina, A. A., Shafikov, R. R., Barashkin, A. A., Ayginin, A. A., … Beloglazkina, E. K. (2023). Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Dispiro-Indolinones with Anticancer Activity. Molecules, 28(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28031325

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