Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel dehydroabietic acid derivatives conjugated with acyl-thiourea peptide moiety as antitumor agents

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A series of dehydroabietic acid (DHAA) acyl-thiourea derivatives were designed and synthesized as potent antitumor agents. The in vitro pharmacological screening results revealed that the target compounds exhibited potent cytotoxicity against HeLa, SK-OV-3 and MGC-803 tumor cell lines, while they showed lower cytotoxicity against HL-7702 normal human river cells. Compound 9n (IC50 = 6.58 ± 1.11 μM) exhibited the best antitumor activity against the HeLa cell line and even displayed more potent inhibitory activity than commercial antitumor drug 5-FU (IC50 = 36.58 ± 1.55 μM). The mechanism of representative compound 9n was then studied by acridine orange/ethidium bromide staining, Hoechst 33,258 staining, JC-1 mitochondrial membrane potential staining, TUNEL assay and flow cytometry, which illustrated that this compound could induce apoptosis in HeLa cells. Cell cycle analysis indicated that compound 9n mainly arrested HeLa cells in the S phase stage. Further investigation demonstrated that compound 9n induced apoptosis of HeLa cells through a mitochondrial pathway.

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Jin, L., Qu, H. E., Huang, X. C., Pan, Y. M., Liang, D., Chen, Z. F., … Zhang, Y. (2015). Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel dehydroabietic acid derivatives conjugated with acyl-thiourea peptide moiety as antitumor agents. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 16(7), 14571–14593. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms160714571

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