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Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes

The anticancer activity of acridone derivatives has attracted increasing interest, therefore, a variety of substituted analogs belonging to this family have been developed and evaluated for their anti-cancer properties. A series of N-alkyl-acridones 1–6 and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes 7–12 wit...

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Autores principales: Krokidis, Marios G., Molphy, Zara, Efthimiadou, Eleni K., Kokoli, Marianna, Argyri, Smaragda-Maria, Dousi, Irini, Masi, Annalisa, Papadopoulos, Kyriakos, Kellett, Andrew, Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31072044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom9050177
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author Krokidis, Marios G.
Molphy, Zara
Efthimiadou, Eleni K.
Kokoli, Marianna
Argyri, Smaragda-Maria
Dousi, Irini
Masi, Annalisa
Papadopoulos, Kyriakos
Kellett, Andrew
Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos
author_facet Krokidis, Marios G.
Molphy, Zara
Efthimiadou, Eleni K.
Kokoli, Marianna
Argyri, Smaragda-Maria
Dousi, Irini
Masi, Annalisa
Papadopoulos, Kyriakos
Kellett, Andrew
Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos
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description The anticancer activity of acridone derivatives has attracted increasing interest, therefore, a variety of substituted analogs belonging to this family have been developed and evaluated for their anti-cancer properties. A series of N-alkyl-acridones 1–6 and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes 7–12 with variable alkyl chains were examined for their topoisomerase I activity at neutral and acidic conditions as well as for their binding capacity to calf thymus and possible radical trapping antioxidant activity. It was found that at a neutral pH, topoisomerase I activity of both classes of compounds was similar, while under acidic conditions, enhanced intercalation was observed. N-alkyl-acridone derivatives 1–6 exhibited stronger, dose-dependent, cytotoxic activity against MCF-7 human breast epithelial cancer cells than N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes 7–12, revealing that conjugation of the heteroaromatic system plays a significant role on the effective distribution of the compound in the intracellular environment. Cellular investigation of long alkyl derivatives against cell migration exhibited 40–50% wound healing effects and cytoplasm diffusion, while compounds with shorter alkyl chains were accumulated both in the nucleus and cytoplasm. All N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes showed unexpected high scavenging activity towards DPPH or ABTS radicals which may be explained by higher stabilization of radical cations by the extended conjugation of heteroaromatic ring system.
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spelling pubmed-65723642019-06-18 Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes Krokidis, Marios G. Molphy, Zara Efthimiadou, Eleni K. Kokoli, Marianna Argyri, Smaragda-Maria Dousi, Irini Masi, Annalisa Papadopoulos, Kyriakos Kellett, Andrew Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos Biomolecules Article The anticancer activity of acridone derivatives has attracted increasing interest, therefore, a variety of substituted analogs belonging to this family have been developed and evaluated for their anti-cancer properties. A series of N-alkyl-acridones 1–6 and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes 7–12 with variable alkyl chains were examined for their topoisomerase I activity at neutral and acidic conditions as well as for their binding capacity to calf thymus and possible radical trapping antioxidant activity. It was found that at a neutral pH, topoisomerase I activity of both classes of compounds was similar, while under acidic conditions, enhanced intercalation was observed. N-alkyl-acridone derivatives 1–6 exhibited stronger, dose-dependent, cytotoxic activity against MCF-7 human breast epithelial cancer cells than N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes 7–12, revealing that conjugation of the heteroaromatic system plays a significant role on the effective distribution of the compound in the intracellular environment. Cellular investigation of long alkyl derivatives against cell migration exhibited 40–50% wound healing effects and cytoplasm diffusion, while compounds with shorter alkyl chains were accumulated both in the nucleus and cytoplasm. All N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes showed unexpected high scavenging activity towards DPPH or ABTS radicals which may be explained by higher stabilization of radical cations by the extended conjugation of heteroaromatic ring system. MDPI 2019-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6572364/ /pubmed/31072044 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom9050177 Text en © 2019 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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Krokidis, Marios G.
Molphy, Zara
Efthimiadou, Eleni K.
Kokoli, Marianna
Argyri, Smaragda-Maria
Dousi, Irini
Masi, Annalisa
Papadopoulos, Kyriakos
Kellett, Andrew
Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos
Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
title Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
title_full Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
title_fullStr Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
title_short Assessment of DNA Topoisomerase I Unwinding Activity, Radical Scavenging Capacity, and Inhibition of Breast Cancer Cell Viability of N-alkyl-acridones and N,N′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
title_sort assessment of dna topoisomerase i unwinding activity, radical scavenging capacity, and inhibition of breast cancer cell viability of n-alkyl-acridones and n,n′-dialkyl-9,9′-biacridylidenes
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31072044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom9050177
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