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Chembiochem ; 9(3): 401-5, 2008 Feb 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18189263

ABSTRACT

A collection of approximately 11 000 natural-product derived and inspired compounds was screened for potential apoptosis inducers in the human tumour cell lines HepG2 (liver), HeLa (cervix) and MCF-7 (breast) by means of MTT and ATP-luminescence assays, automated cell counting, caspase 3/7 assay as well as by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis. A group of seven indoloquinolizidine derivatives was identified that exhibited IC(50) values for cell proliferation as low as 2 mumol L(-1), with no major necrosis of cells detectable. At the same time, an increase in the rate of apoptosis of up to 600 % relative to the reference level was observed. FACS analysis indicated that these effects are related to an arrest of cells in the G(2)M phase of the cell cycle.


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Apoptosis/drug effects , Cell Cycle/drug effects , Indoles/chemistry , Quinolizidines/pharmacology , Cell Line , Cell Proliferation/drug effects , Flow Cytometry , Humans , Microscopy, Fluorescence , Quinolizidines/chemistry
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 103(28): 10606-11, 2006 Jul 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16809424

ABSTRACT

Protein phosphatases have very recently emerged as important targets for chemical biology and medicinal chemistry research, and new phosphatase inhibitor classes are in high demand. The underlying frameworks of natural products represent the evolutionarily selected fractions of chemical space explored by nature so far and meet the criteria of relevance to nature and biological prevalidation most crucial to inhibitor development. We refer to synthesis efforts and compound collection development based on these criteria as biology-oriented synthesis. For the discovery of phosphatase inhibitor classes by means of this approach, four natural product-derived or -inspired medium-sized compound collections were synthesized and investigated for inhibition of the tyrosine phosphatases VE-PTP, Shp-2, PTP1B, MptpA, and MptpB and the dual-specificity phosphatases Cdc25A and VHR. The screen yielded four unprecedented and selective phosphatase inhibitor classes for four phosphatases with high hit rates. For VE-PTP and MptpB the first inhibitors were discovered. These results demonstrate that biology-oriented synthesis is an efficient approach to the discovery of new compound classes for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology research that opens up new opportunities for the study of phosphatases, which may lead to the development of new drug candidates.


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Biological Products/classification , Biological Products/chemical synthesis , Enzyme Inhibitors/classification , Enzyme Inhibitors/chemical synthesis , Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/antagonists & inhibitors , Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/chemistry , Biological Products/chemistry , Drug Design , Enzyme Inhibitors/chemistry , Humans
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