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Published on: February 9, 2021
Synthesis and antitumor activity of tetrandrine derivatives
Chun-Zhen Wu1, Long Lai, Xiao Hu
1a State Key Laboratory of New Drug & Pharmaceutical Process, Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry , Shanghai , 200040 , China.
Abstract:
Tetrandrine possesses antitumor activity, however, only a few studies on its structure modification were reported. To improve the antitumor activity of tetrandrine, 20 new tetrandrine derivatives were designed and synthesized by Sonogashira and Suzuki reactions. Their antitumor activities were evaluated against three tumor cell lines including A549, HepG2, and BGC-823 by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium assay with taxol as a positive control. The results showed that compounds 2c and 2g were highly potent against BGC-823 cell line, and compounds 1i and 1k showed particular activity against HepG2 cells. These results demonstrated that compounds 1i, 1k, 2c, and 2g were promising leads for further investigation.
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