Discovery of novel antitumor nitric oxide-donating b-elemene hybrids through inhibiting the PI3K/Akt pathwayTools Chen, Jichao, Wang, Tianyu, Xu, Shengtao, Zhang, Pengfei, Lin, Aijun, Wu, Liang, Yao, Hequan, Xie, Weijia, Zhu, Zheying and Xu, Jinyi (2017) Discovery of novel antitumor nitric oxide-donating b-elemene hybrids through inhibiting the PI3K/Akt pathway. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 135 . pp. 414-423. ISSN 1768-3254 Full text not available from this repository.AbstractA series of novel furoxan-based NO-donating b-elemene hybrids were designed and synthesized to improve the anticancer efficacy of natural b-elemene. The bioassay results indicated that all of the target compounds exhibited significantly improved antiproliferative activities against three cancer cell lines (SGC-7901, HeLa and U87) compared to parent compound b-elemene. Interestingly, these compounds displayed excellent sensitivity to U87 cells with IC50 values ranging from 173 to 2 nM. Moreover, most compounds produced high levels of NO in vitro, and the antitumor activity of 11a in U87 cells was markedly attenuated by an NO scavenger (hemoglobin or carboxy-PTIO). Further mechanism studies revealed that 11a caused the G2 phase arrest of the cell cycle and induced apoptosis of U87 cells by preventing the activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway. Moreover, 11a significantly suppressed the tumor growth in H22 liver cancer xenograft mouse model with a tumor inhibitory ratio (TIR) of 64.8%, which
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