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. 2021 Oct 1:47:116372.
doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116372. Epub 2021 Aug 19.

Synthesis, antitumor activity and in silico analyses of amino acid derivatives of artepillin C, drupanin and baccharin from green propolis

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Synthesis, antitumor activity and in silico analyses of amino acid derivatives of artepillin C, drupanin and baccharin from green propolis

Débora Munhoz Rodrigues et al. Bioorg Med Chem. .

Abstract

Breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality in females, while prostate cancer has the second-highest incidence in males. Studies have shown that compounds from Brazilian green propolis have antitumor activities and can selectively inhibit the AKR1C3 enzyme, overexpressed in hormone-dependent prostate and breast tumors. Thus, in an attempt to develop new cytotoxic inhibitors against these cancers, three prenylated compounds, artepillin C, drupanin and baccharin, were isolated from green propolis to synthesize new derivatives via coupling reactions with different amino acids. All obtained derivatives were submitted to antiproliferative assays against four cancer cells (MCF-7, MDA MB-231, PC-3, and DU145) and two normal cell lines (MCF-10A and PNT-2) to evaluate their cytotoxicity. In general, the best activity was observed for compound6e, derived from drupanin, which exhibited half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 9.6 ± 3 μM and selectivity index (SI) of 5.5 against MCF-7 cells.In silicostudies demonstrated that these derivatives present coherent docking interactions and binding modes against AKR1C3, which might represent a possible mechanism of inhibition in MCF-7 cells.

Keywords: AKR1C3 docking; Baccharis dracunculifolia; Breast and prostate cancer; Natural products; Semisynthesis.

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