Curcumin is a bioactive natural compound with a wide range of pharmacological properties, including antitumor activity; however, its clinical application has been limited because of its low solubility, stability, and bioavailability. In this study, a solid phase approach was proposed for the combinatorial synthesis of a mini library of the mimics of curcumin in good purity and yield. The non-effective findings in pancreatic cancer cells switched to strong growth inhibition and cell death efficacy for PC3 prostate cancer cells, and mimic 9, in which tyrosol (TYR) and homovanillyl alcohol (HVA) units were linked by a phosphodiester bond, was quite effective not only in cell growth inhibition but also in causing strong cell death under the study conditions and treatments that were not effective in PANC1 cells. The results got more exciting when we also consider the findings in SW480 human colorectal carcinoma cell line, where the growth inhibitor effects were more in line with that of the PC3 cells, but the lack of cell death effect was more in line with the PANC1 cells.

Solid-phase synthesis of curcumin mimics and their anticancer activity against human pancreatic, prostate, and colorectal cancer cell lines / Romanucci, V.; Giordano, M.; Pagano, R.; Agarwal, C.; Agarwal, R.; Zarrelli, A.; Di Fabio, G.. - In: BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0968-0896. - 42:(2021), p. 116249. [10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116249]

Solid-phase synthesis of curcumin mimics and their anticancer activity against human pancreatic, prostate, and colorectal cancer cell lines

Romanucci V.;Giordano M.;Pagano R.;Zarrelli A.;Di Fabio G.
2021

Abstract

Curcumin is a bioactive natural compound with a wide range of pharmacological properties, including antitumor activity; however, its clinical application has been limited because of its low solubility, stability, and bioavailability. In this study, a solid phase approach was proposed for the combinatorial synthesis of a mini library of the mimics of curcumin in good purity and yield. The non-effective findings in pancreatic cancer cells switched to strong growth inhibition and cell death efficacy for PC3 prostate cancer cells, and mimic 9, in which tyrosol (TYR) and homovanillyl alcohol (HVA) units were linked by a phosphodiester bond, was quite effective not only in cell growth inhibition but also in causing strong cell death under the study conditions and treatments that were not effective in PANC1 cells. The results got more exciting when we also consider the findings in SW480 human colorectal carcinoma cell line, where the growth inhibitor effects were more in line with that of the PC3 cells, but the lack of cell death effect was more in line with the PANC1 cells.
2021
Solid-phase synthesis of curcumin mimics and their anticancer activity against human pancreatic, prostate, and colorectal cancer cell lines / Romanucci, V.; Giordano, M.; Pagano, R.; Agarwal, C.; Agarwal, R.; Zarrelli, A.; Di Fabio, G.. - In: BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0968-0896. - 42:(2021), p. 116249. [10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116249]
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