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- Title
Mitochondria-Targeting 1,5-Diazacyclooctane-Spacered Triterpene Rhodamine Conjugates Exhibit Cytotoxicity at Sub-Nanomolar Concentration against Breast Cancer Cells.
- Authors
Heise, Niels; Becker, Selina; Mueller, Thomas; Bache, Matthias; Csuk, René; Güttler, Antje
- Abstract
1,5-Diazacyclooctane was prepared by a simple synthetic sequence and coupled to pentacyclic triterpenoic acids oleanolic acid, ursolic acid, betulinic acid, platanic acid, and asiatic acid; these amides were activated with oxalyl chloride and reacted with rhodamine B or rhodamine 101 to yield conjugates. The conjugates were screened in SRB assays with various human breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231, HS578T, MCF-7, and T47D) and found to exert cytotoxic activity even at a low concentration. Therefore, for an asiatic acid rhodamine 101 conjugate (28), an IC50 = 0.60 nM was determined and found to induce apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 and HS578T cells. Extra experiments showed the compound to act as a mitocan and to induce inhibition of proliferation or growth arrest in MDA-MB-231 cells at lower doses followed by an induction of apoptosis at higher doses. Furthermore, differential responses to proliferation inhibition and apoptosis induction may explain differential sensitivity of mammary cell lines to compound 28.
- Subjects
CANCER cells; BREAST cancer; BETULINIC acid; URSOLIC acid; OXALYL chloride; BREAST; RHODAMINE B
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 13, p10695
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms241310695