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Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation

A series of 2-arylbenzo[c]furan-chalcone hybrids 3a–y have been synthesized and evaluated for antiproliferative effects against the human breast cancer (MCF-7) cell line and for its potential to induce apoptosis and also to inhibit tubulin polymerization and/or epidermal growth factor receptor-tyros...

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Autores principales: Mphahlele, Malose J., Maluleka, Marole M., Parbhoo, Nishal, Malindisa, Sibusiso T.
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30154363
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms19092552
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author Mphahlele, Malose J.
Maluleka, Marole M.
Parbhoo, Nishal
Malindisa, Sibusiso T.
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Maluleka, Marole M.
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description A series of 2-arylbenzo[c]furan-chalcone hybrids 3a–y have been synthesized and evaluated for antiproliferative effects against the human breast cancer (MCF-7) cell line and for its potential to induce apoptosis and also to inhibit tubulin polymerization and/or epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) phosphorylation. Most of these compounds exhibited moderate to significant antigrowth effects in vitro against the MCF-7 cell line when compared to the reference standard actinomycin D. The capabilities of the most cytotoxic benzofuran-chalcone hybrids 3b and 3i, to induce apoptosis, have been evaluated by Annexin V-Cy3 SYTOX staining and caspase-3 activation. The experimental and molecular docking results suggest that the title compounds have the potential to exhibit inhibitory effects against tubulin polymerization and epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) phosphorylation. The modeled structures of representative compounds displayed hydrophobic interactions as well as hydrogen and/or halogen bonding with the protein residues. These interactions are probably responsible for the observed increased binding affinity for the two receptors and their significant antigrowth effect against the MCF-7 cell line.
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spelling pubmed-61643312018-10-10 Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation Mphahlele, Malose J. Maluleka, Marole M. Parbhoo, Nishal Malindisa, Sibusiso T. Int J Mol Sci Article A series of 2-arylbenzo[c]furan-chalcone hybrids 3a–y have been synthesized and evaluated for antiproliferative effects against the human breast cancer (MCF-7) cell line and for its potential to induce apoptosis and also to inhibit tubulin polymerization and/or epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) phosphorylation. Most of these compounds exhibited moderate to significant antigrowth effects in vitro against the MCF-7 cell line when compared to the reference standard actinomycin D. The capabilities of the most cytotoxic benzofuran-chalcone hybrids 3b and 3i, to induce apoptosis, have been evaluated by Annexin V-Cy3 SYTOX staining and caspase-3 activation. The experimental and molecular docking results suggest that the title compounds have the potential to exhibit inhibitory effects against tubulin polymerization and epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) phosphorylation. The modeled structures of representative compounds displayed hydrophobic interactions as well as hydrogen and/or halogen bonding with the protein residues. These interactions are probably responsible for the observed increased binding affinity for the two receptors and their significant antigrowth effect against the MCF-7 cell line. MDPI 2018-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6164331/ /pubmed/30154363 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms19092552 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation
title Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation
title_full Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation
title_fullStr Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation
title_full_unstemmed Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation
title_short Synthesis, Evaluation for Cytotoxicity and Molecular Docking Studies of Benzo[c]furan-Chalcones for Potential to Inhibit Tubulin Polymerization and/or EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Phosphorylation
title_sort synthesis, evaluation for cytotoxicity and molecular docking studies of benzo[c]furan-chalcones for potential to inhibit tubulin polymerization and/or egfr-tyrosine kinase phosphorylation
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30154363
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms19092552
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