PUBLICATION

Pyrazole-oxadiazole conjugates: synthesis, antiproliferative activity and inhibition of tubulin polymerization

Authors
Kamal, A., Shaik, A.B., Polepalli, S., Santosh Reddy, V., Bharath Kumar, G., Gupta, S., Rama Krishna, K.V., Nagabhushana, A., Mishra, R.K., Jain, N.
ID
ZDB-PUB-140903-2
Date
2014
Source
Organic & biomolecular chemistry   12(40): 7993-8007 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Mishra, Rakesh, Nagabhushana, A.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents/chemical synthesis
  • Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry
  • Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology*
  • Cell Cycle/drug effects
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation/drug effects
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • HeLa Cells
  • Humans
  • MCF-7 Cells
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Oxadiazoles/chemistry
  • Oxadiazoles/pharmacology*
  • Polymerization/drug effects
  • Pyrazoles/chemistry
  • Pyrazoles/pharmacology*
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Tubulin/metabolism*
  • Zebrafish/embryology
PubMed
25181296 Full text @ Org. Biomol. Chem.
Abstract
A number of pyrazole-oxadiazole conjugates were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to function as antiproliferative agents on various human cancer cell lines. These conjugates are comprised of pyrazole and oxadiazole scaffolds closely attached to each other without any spacer as two structural classes. The Type I class has a trimethoxy substituent and the type II class has a 3,4-(methylenedioxy) substituent on their A rings. Among these conjugates, , and manifest potent cytotoxicity with IC50 values ranging from 1.5 μM to 11.2 μM and inhibit tubulin polymerization with IC50 values of 1.3 μM, 3.9 μM and 2.4 μM respectively. The cell cycle assay showed that treatment with these conjugates results in accumulation of cells in the G2/M phase and disrupts the microtubule network. Elucidation of zebrafish embryos revealed that the conjugates cause developmental defects. Molecular docking simulations determined the binding modes of these potent conjugates at the colchicine site of tubulin.
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