Several marine natural linear prenylquinones/hydroquinones have been identified as anticancer and antimutagenic agents. Structure-activity relationship studies on natural compounds and their synthetic analogs demonstrated that these effects depend on the length of the prenyl side chain and on the type and position of the substituent groups in the quinone moiety. Aiming to broaden the knowledge of the underlying mechanism of the antiproliferative effect of these prenylated compounds, herein we report the synthesis of two quinones 4 and 5 and of their corresponding dioxothiazine fused quinones 6 and 7 inspired to the marine natural product aplidinone A (1), a geranylquinone featuring the 1,1-dioxo-1,4-thiazine ring isolated from the ascidian Aplidium conicum. The potential effects on viability and proliferation in three different human cancer cell lines, breast adenocarcinoma (MCF-7), pancreas adenocarcinoma (Bx-PC3) and bone osteosarcoma (MG-63), were investigated. The methoxylated geranylquinone 5 exerted the highest antiproliferative effect exhibiting a comparable toxicity in all three cell lines analyzed. Interestingly, a deeper investigation has highlighted a cytostatic effect of quinone 5 referable to a G0/G1 cell-cycle arrest in BxPC-3 cells after 24 h treatment.

In Vitro Antiproliferative Evaluation of Synthetic Meroterpenes Inspired by Marine Natural Products / Imperatore, Concetta; DELLA SALA, Gerardo; Casertano, Marcello; Luciano, Paolo; Aiello, Anna; Laurenzana, Ilaria; Piccoli, Claudia; Menna, Marialuisa. - In: MARINE DRUGS. - ISSN 1660-3397. - 17:12(2019). [10.3390/md17120684]

In Vitro Antiproliferative Evaluation of Synthetic Meroterpenes Inspired by Marine Natural Products

Concetta Imperatore
Co-primo
;
Gerardo Della Sala
Co-primo
;
Marcello Casertano;Paolo Luciano;Anna Aiello;Claudia Piccoli;Marialuisa Menna
Ultimo
2019

Abstract

Several marine natural linear prenylquinones/hydroquinones have been identified as anticancer and antimutagenic agents. Structure-activity relationship studies on natural compounds and their synthetic analogs demonstrated that these effects depend on the length of the prenyl side chain and on the type and position of the substituent groups in the quinone moiety. Aiming to broaden the knowledge of the underlying mechanism of the antiproliferative effect of these prenylated compounds, herein we report the synthesis of two quinones 4 and 5 and of their corresponding dioxothiazine fused quinones 6 and 7 inspired to the marine natural product aplidinone A (1), a geranylquinone featuring the 1,1-dioxo-1,4-thiazine ring isolated from the ascidian Aplidium conicum. The potential effects on viability and proliferation in three different human cancer cell lines, breast adenocarcinoma (MCF-7), pancreas adenocarcinoma (Bx-PC3) and bone osteosarcoma (MG-63), were investigated. The methoxylated geranylquinone 5 exerted the highest antiproliferative effect exhibiting a comparable toxicity in all three cell lines analyzed. Interestingly, a deeper investigation has highlighted a cytostatic effect of quinone 5 referable to a G0/G1 cell-cycle arrest in BxPC-3 cells after 24 h treatment.
2019
In Vitro Antiproliferative Evaluation of Synthetic Meroterpenes Inspired by Marine Natural Products / Imperatore, Concetta; DELLA SALA, Gerardo; Casertano, Marcello; Luciano, Paolo; Aiello, Anna; Laurenzana, Ilaria; Piccoli, Claudia; Menna, Marialuisa. - In: MARINE DRUGS. - ISSN 1660-3397. - 17:12(2019). [10.3390/md17120684]
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