Synthesis and Antitumor Activity Evaluation of a Novel Combi-nitrosourea Prodrug: BGCNU

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• 作者：Yameng Wang ; Ting Ren ; Xinxin Lai ; Guohui Sun ; Lijiao ZhaoNa Zhang ; Rugang Zhong
• 刊名：ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 9, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：8
• 期：2
• 页码：174-178
• 全文大小：409K
• ISSN：1948-5875

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Chloroethylnitrosoureas (CENUs) are an important type of alkylating agent employed in the clinical treatment of cancer. However, the anticancer efficacy of CENUs is greatly decreased by a DNA repairing enzyme, O⁶-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT), by preventing the formation of interstrand cross-links (ICLs). In this study, a combi-nitrosourea prodrug, namely, N-(2-chloroethyl)-N′-2-(O⁶-benzyl-9-guanine)ethyl-N-nitrosourea (BGCNU), which possesses an O⁶-benzylguanine (O⁶-BG) derivative and CENU pharmacophores simultaneously, was synthesized and evaluated for its ability to induce ICLs. The target compound is markedly more cytotoxic in human glioma cells than the clinically used CENU chemotherapies ACNU, BCNU, and their respective combinations with O⁶-BG. In the AGT-proficient cells, significantly higher levels of DNA ICLs were observed in the groups treated by BGCNU than those by ACNU and BCNU, which indicated that the activity of AGT was effectively inhibited by the O⁶-BG derivatives released from BGCNU.